Cloud Platform Architect & Automation Leader

Devopsroles; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

PTC’s Onshape team in Boston seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead and scale our global cloud platform. This hands-on role focuses on AWS infrastructure, Linux operations, Kubernetes, security, and platform reliability for a large-scale SaaS product.

You will mentor engineers, drive IaC standards with Terraform and Ansible/Puppet, and partner with security teams to harden systems while delivering self-service capabilities and cost-optimized, highly automated environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Cloud Operations, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering or DevOps.
• Strong AWS experience at production scale.
• Expert Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Terraform expertise.
• Ansible, Puppet or Chef experience.
• Kubernetes operational experience.
• Python,Bash or Go automation skills.
• Production on-call and incident response experience.

Responsibilities

• Operate large-scale AWS cloud infrastructure
• Build low-touch, highly automated operational environments
• Eliminate manual operational toil through engineering
• Manage infrastructure as code and configuration management standards
• Improve deployment, disaster recovery and operational readiness
• Partner with security teams on hardening and compliance initiatives
• Create self-service capabilities that enable engineering teams to move faster
• Influence platform standards and operational best practices

Skills

10+ years in Cloud Operations,Platform

AWS at production scale

Linux administration

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Kubernetes

Python,Bash,Go automation

On-call/incident response

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

PTC’s Onshape team in Boston seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead and scale our global cloud platform. This hands-on role focuses on AWS infrastructure, Linux operations, Kubernetes, security, and platform reliability for a large-scale SaaS product.

You will mentor engineers, drive IaC standards with Terraform and Ansible/Puppet, and partner with security teams to harden systems while delivering self-service capabilities and cost-optimized, highly automated environments.