Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, GitLab)

Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, GitLab)

Work mode: Hybrid Onsite Location(s): Valencia, CA, US, 91355 Additional Location(s): US-CA-Santa Clara; US-CA-Valencia; US-MN-Arden Hills Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance At Boston Scientific, we'll give you the opportunity to harness all that's within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we'll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you'll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role: Boston Scientific was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Workplaces for Engineers in 2026, reflecting a culture where engineers do meaningful work. The Principal DevOps Engineer is a senior, hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building and evolving CI/CD systems, release workflows and delivery automation for a centralized AWS-based cloud platform. This role will own the development and continuous improvement of a GitLab-driven delivery platform supporting multiple engineering teams within a regulated medical device environment. The ideal candidate will drive the adoption of secure, scalable and compliant software delivery practices while ensuring operational stability, traceability and engineering efficiency across the software development lifecycle.

Work model, sponsorship, relocation: At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time. This is a defined-term position with an anticipated duration of 24 months from the employee's start date. Based on business needs and individual performance, there may be an opportunity for this role to be considered for regular full-time employment in the future.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design, implement and maintain reusable GitLab CI/CD frameworks, including pipeline templates, shared components and standardized promotion workflows.
• Build and evolve centralized delivery platform capabilities that enable consistent, scalable software delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Define and govern Git-based development workflows, including branching strategies, merge request controls, approval gates and end-to-end traceability requirements.
• Develop Terraform-based infrastructure frameworks for AWS environments, including landing zones, shared services and application environments.
• Implement policy-as-code controls, secrets management, security scanning, artifact validation and least-privilege access models throughout delivery pipelines.
• Establish and mature release engineering practices, including artifact provenance, signed artifacts, promotion traceability and automated audit evidence collection.
• Design and support deployment strategies, including blue-green, canary and rolling deployments, with automated validation, monitoring and rollback capabilities.
• Integrate observability, deployment telemetry and operational insights into delivery workflows to improve release confidence, service reliability and incident readiness.
• Ensure environment consistency, disaster recovery validation, governance controls and cost allocation standards are embedded within platform and deployment processes.
• Partner with architecture, security, site reliability engineering (SRE) and software engineering teams to improve delivery performance, reliability and operational excellence.
• Evaluate emerging tools and technologies, document standards and best practices, and mentor engineering teams to advance DevOps maturity and platform adoption.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 13 years' experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure or related technical disciplines.
• Minimum of 6 years' experience designing, implementing and supporting AWS-based cloud environments.
• Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD, including pipelines, runners, templates, automation frameworks and secure execution models.
• Experience building reusable delivery platforms and governed CI/CD workflows supporting multiple engineering teams.
• Experience implementing security, compliance and governance controls within software delivery pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of release engineering principles, including promotion models, artifact management, traceability and software delivery governance.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and container orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes; Amazon EKS experience preferred.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Python and Bash scripting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience operating and administering GitLab at enterprise scale.
• Background working in regulated, compliance-driven or quality-managed environments.
• Knowledge of GitOps methodologies and progressive delivery strategies.
• Familiarity with observability platforms, service-level objectives (SLOs) and incident response practices.
• Exposure to policy-as-code frameworks and software supply chain security controls.
• Experience supporting cloud-based data platforms and integrated delivery pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cloud cost optimization, governance and operational efficiency initiatives within AWS environments.