Principal DevOps Engineer — Cloud Platform Lead (Hybrid)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter subsidy

Flexible spending accounts

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Employee stock purchase program

Job summary

PTC is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer in Boston for a hands-on technical leadership role. You will own large-scale AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and security/compliance across a global SaaS platform.

The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and platform operations rather than application development. You will mentor engineering teams, work in a hybrid model in the Seaport District, and shape deployment processes, monitoring, and cost optimization while collaborating

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 and improve cloud infrastructure supporting thousands of cloud resources.
• Build low-touch, highly automated operational environments.
• Eliminate manual operational toil through engineering.
• Manage infrastructure as code and configuration management standards.
• Improve deployment consistency, 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

Cloud Operations

AWS prod experience

Linux administration

On-call/Incident response

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Kubernetes

Linux

Python

Bash

Go

AWS

Job description

PTC is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer in Boston for a hands-on technical leadership role. You will own large-scale AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and security/compliance across a global SaaS platform.

The role emphasizes automation, reliability, and platform operations rather than application development. You will mentor engineering teams, work in a hybrid model in the Seaport District, and shape deployment processes, monitoring, and cost optimization while collaborating