Principal DevOps Engineer

Come, Build, Innovate, Disrupt, and Thrive! KēSTA I.T. is actively seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer for an immediate full-time opportunity with our industry leading client. Are you on the lookout for a unique career opportunity that offers leadership, responsibility, and the chance to make a significant impact? If you're eager to contribute to a thriving and stable organization while maintaining your confidentiality, continue reading. We are seeking a technical leader with deep AWS and AI infrastructure expertise to join an enterprise technology organization as a Principal DevOps Engineer. This role plays a key part in architecting and driving cloud and AI infrastructure strategy across AWS and private cloud environments. The Principal DevOps Engineer will establish platform standards that enable Bedrock-backed agents, agentic workflows using AgentCore, and high-throughput LLM serving to operate reliably, securely, and cost-effectively at enterprise scale. This position combines hands-on technical depth with architectural leadership, platform strategy, and mentorship. The ideal candidate has extensive experience building enterprise-scale AWS and Kubernetes environments and is comfortable establishing the infrastructure and operational standards required to support emerging AI workloads. What You Will Do Architect cloud and AI platform strategies and clearly communicate proposed solutions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Provide technical leadership to engineering team members, manage work priorities, and establish technical direction for cloud infrastructure and AI platform practices Collaborate with architecture leadership to define, design, and validate solution architectures for platform and AI application workloads running on AWS Establish platform standards for AI workload deployment, including model versioning, inference-serving patterns, cost-per-inference governance, and AI API reliability Administer and architect Amazon EKS environments at enterprise scale, including multi-cluster federation and AI workload scheduling policies Design and implement enterprise observability strategies using Dynatrace, including service-performance SLOs, cost dashboards, AI workload monitoring, and incident response Establish cloud-native architecture, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps standards that support scalable and repeatable platform operations Help ensure cloud and AI infrastructure meets enterprise requirements for security, reliability, performance, compliance, and cost efficiency Mentor and develop engineers across multiple levels while promoting platform engineering and DevOps best practices Background & Skills 8+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a related discipline Extensive experience administering Amazon EKS or Kubernetes within enterprise-scale environments Advanced scripting experience using Bash and Python Extensive experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or similar technologies Deep experience with AWS services, including EC2, VPC, S3, EKS, IAM, CloudFront, ALB/NLB, and RDS Strong experience designing Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native architectures using Terraform and AWS CDK Extensive Linux systems administration experience Proven expertise with AWS cloud and AI infrastructure, including Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, and cloud-native architecture patterns Experience deploying and operating agentic AI systems within AWS, including AgentCore and Bedrock Agents Strong experience with Dynatrace and enterprise observability strategies, including monitoring AI workloads Experience with centralized logging and monitoring technologies such as CloudWatch and Dynatrace Deep understanding of cloud networking, including AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, security groups, load balancing, and routing Strong understanding of cloud-native principles, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps methodologies Knowledge of CIS, NIST, and SOX compliance frameworks and associated audit processes Strong understanding of security governance and compliance requirements for cloud and AI environments Experience with service discovery technologies such as AWS Cloud Map and Consul Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop engineers at multiple levels Ability to communicate complex infrastructure and architecture concepts effectively to both technical and business stakeholders Available Benefits:

• Medical Benefits (Platinum level plans available)
• Work from home / Hybrid / Onsite options

• PTO

• Holiday Pay

• VTO

• 401K

• Charitable Match
• Training reimbursement

About KēSTA I.T.: Our name says it all; KēSTA I.T. (Keys-to-I.T.) AND our people are our keys to our success! KēSTA I.T. is an IT staffing, consulting, and technical services company built around one simple belief: the right people can transform businesses. We connect talented technology professionals with organizations that need the skills, experience, and expertise to move their technology initiatives forward. From contract staffing and direct hire to consulting and project-based solutions, we provide flexible technology talent across software, data, cloud, network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, CRM/ERP, and other critical IT disciplines. Our culture is built on Putting People First, Integrity & Ethics, Growth, Accountability, Respect, and Continuous Improvement. We believe in open communication, taking ownership, doing what we say we're going to do, and continuously finding ways to get better. Where do you want to go? We've got the keys! ~ KēSTA I.T. Kesta IT