Principal DevOps Architect & Platform Lead

MKS Instruments; Beaverton (OR); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

MKS Instruments is seeking a Principal DevOps Architect in a hybrid role with two office days per week in Beaverton, OR. You will shape how engineering teams across the company build, test, secure, and deliver software, partnering with IT and Security to advance the DevOps ecosystem and establish scalable, automated pipelines.

You will influence CI/CD architecture, DevSecOps practices, and platform governance while delivering practical solutions, templates, and frameworks for teams to adopt

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, or MIS.
• 8+ years in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 5+ years architecting, building, administering, or modernizing enterprise CI/CD and DevOps platforms.
• Strong understanding of DevSecOps and secure software delivery practices.
• Travel is less than 15%.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture for MKS's enterprise DevOps capability, including source control, CI/CD, artifact management, release automation, DevSecOps, reliability, and platform governance.
• Modernize and simplify a complex DevOps ecosystem spanning GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, CloudBees CI, Nexus, Perforce, Bitbucket, and related engineering platforms.
• Architect reusable CI/CD solutions including pipeline templates, shared libraries, automated testing, quality gates, artifact promotion, and repeatable release patterns that engineering teams can adopt at scale.
• Solve challenging platform and developer-experience problems by identifying friction, technical debt, reliability gaps, and opportunities for automation and standardization.
• Partner with Security and IT to build security into engineering workflows through identity management, secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, auditability, and software supply chain controls.
• Set technical direction and influence engineering practices across teams and sites, while providing flexibility to support different products and environments.
• Establish and lead the DevOps Center of Excellence, creating standards, reference architectures, documentation, training, mentoring, and a strong community of practice.
• Serve as a principal-level technical advisor to engineering teams, helping solve CI/CD, platform reliability, release, and DevSecOps challenges.
• Improve long-term reliability and observability of platforms through automation, ownership, documentation, and operational practices.

Skills

CI/CD architecture

DevSecOps

Platform reliability

Communication

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT or MIS

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins

CloudBees CI

Nexus Repository

Perforce

Bitbucket

Jira

Confluence

Job description

MKS Instruments is seeking a Principal DevOps Architect in a hybrid role with two office days per week in Beaverton, OR. You will shape how engineering teams across the company build, test, secure, and deliver software, partnering with IT and Security to advance the DevOps ecosystem and establish scalable, automated pipelines.

You will influence CI/CD architecture, DevSecOps practices, and platform governance while delivering practical solutions, templates, and frameworks for teams to adopt