Principal DevOps Engineer: Secure CI/CD & Cloud Architect

Madrona Venture Labs; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSU

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Mental Health coverage

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Flexible PTO

401(k) match

Commuter Benefits

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Echodyne is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead secure development and deployment practices across our software and hardware-in-the-loop stack. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you will own the DevOps space and our stack for managing the CI/CD pipeline and help define SecOps strategy working with our VP of Cybersecurity.

This role will design secure pipelines, migrate legacy infrastructure from on-prem to cloud platforms, and ensure compliance with defense and commercial

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field with 10+ years of DevOps/Security experience.
• Proven track record migrating CI/CD from on-prem to cloud-native platforms like GitLab.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kubernetes/Docker.
• Hands-on security expertise across OWASP Top 10 and enterprise tooling.
• Strong ability to communicate architectural trade-offs to engineers and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define overarching DevOps vision across software and hardware-in-the-loop environments, acting as a technical mentor to foster a security-first culture.
• Architect highly available CI/CD pipelines that integrate automated testing frameworks and migrate legacy infrastructure to a modern cloud platform (GitLab).
• Design and integrate automated security testing (SAST, DAST, SCA, fuzzing) into development workflows and orchestrate remediation.
• Establish Infrastructure‑as‑Code standards (Terraform, CloudFormation) and secure supply chains (artifact signing, SBOMs).
• Own the infrastructure supporting all software development, test structures, and version control of software objects.

Skills

Leadership

Security mindset

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Communication

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

SAST/DAST/SCA

SBOMs

Job description

Echodyne is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead secure development and deployment practices across our software and hardware-in-the-loop stack. This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you will own the DevOps space and our stack for managing the CI/CD pipeline and help define SecOps strategy working with our VP of Cybersecurity.

This role will design secure pipelines, migrate legacy infrastructure from on-prem to cloud platforms, and ensure compliance with defense and commercial