Principal Engineer, DevOps & Infrastructure

Zeroeyes; Conshohocken (Montgomery County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ZeroEyes is looking for a Principal Engineer for DevOps & Infrastructure in Conshohocken, PA. This role requires a strong background in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and significant experience in DevOps leadership. Responsibilities include defining cloud architecture, managing IaC standards, and mentoring engineering teams. Candidates should have over 10 years in production infrastructure and be proficient in C++/Python/Golang/.NET. This position offers a remote/hybrid work model with a mission to enhance public safety through technology.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building/running production infrastructure.
• 5+ years leading DevOps/SRE or platform teams.
• Experience with FedRAMP Moderate and working with a 3PAO.
• Strong coding skills in C++/Python/Golang/.NET.

Responsibilities

• Define target state for cloud, network, identity, and orchestration.
• Establish standards for Terraform/Pulumi and policy-as-code.
• Map controls (NIST 800-53) for FedRAMP/NIST alignment.
• Define SLOs/error budgets and incident response/runbooks.
• Mentor SRE/DevOps/Platform engineers.

Skills

AWS expertise

Infrastructure as Code

Deep IaC expertise (Terraform or Pulumi)

Container orchestration (ECS/EKS)

Security engineering literacy

Strong coding skills in C++/Python/Golang/.NET

Education

10+ years building/running production infrastructure

5+ years leading DevOps/SRE or platform teams

Prior experience in Principal/Staff scope

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GitOps workflows

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

# Principal Engineer, DevOps & InfrastructureDepartmentTechnologyEmployment TypeFull-timeLocationRemote / Hybrid / Conshohocken, PAReports ToCTO## **About ZeroEyes, Inc.**ZeroEyes was founded by former Navy SEALs, self-starters and elite technologists with a mission to reduce the threat and impact of mass shootings and gun-related violence using our best-in-class artificial intelligence (AI) platform that detects visible firearms before there’s a threat. As a member of the ZeroEyes team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to join a forward-facing, purpose-driven company, and your perseverance and individual skill set will become crucial to our mission’s success.## **About the role**We’re looking for a low-ego, high-ownership **Principal Engineer** to provide technical oversight, mentoring, and hands-on design for our DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) stack. You’ll be the bar-setter for reliability, security, and velocity across our cloud and orchestration platform. **AWS and FedRAMP experience is highly desired**—you’ll help us build, document, and run systems that meet rigorous compliance requirements while staying developer-friendly and cost-efficient.We value people who have strong, well-informed opinions and express them diplomatically, who care more about **truth than winning arguments**, who mentor generously, and who take personal responsibility for the organization’s success.## **What you’ll do*** **Own the platform architecture:** Define target state for cloud, network, identity, and runtime orchestration across AWS.* **Lead Infrastructure as Code:** Establish standards and reusable modules (Terraform/Pulumi), policy-as-code (Kyvernol), GitOps workflows (FluxCD/Kustomize), and immutable images (Gitlab/Dagger).* **Drive FedRAMP/NIST alignment:** Map controls (NIST 800-53), lead technical portions of the SSP, implement CIS/STIG hardening, FIPS-validated crypto usage, logging/monitoring requirements, and support ATO and continuous monitoring (ConMon) with auditors/3PAO.* **Elevate reliability:** Define SLOs/error budgets, incident response/runbooks, postmortems without blame, chaos and DR testing, multi-AZ/region strategies, and cost-aware resilience (RTO/RPO).* **Hands-on enablement:** Pair with teams to deliver CI/CD (GitLab Pipelines), container platforms (Kubernetes/EKS/GKE, ECS, Fargate), and service meshes/ingress.* **Security by default:** Identity & access (IAM/Okta, SSO/SAML/OIDC), secrets (AWS SM/KMS), supply-chain security (SBOM, Sigstore/Cosign, SLSA/SSDF), network segmentation/zero-trust.* **Observability:** Standardize metrics/logs/traces (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry, ELK/Datadog), golden signals, actionable alerts, and capacity planning/FinOps.* **Mentor & multiply:** Coach SRE/DevOps/Platform engineers, run design reviews/ADRs, and establish pragmatic guardrails that speed teams up.* **Vendor & cost management:** Evaluate and right-size infra/services; build dashboards and budgets that the business can trust.* **Documentation & audits:** Keep docs current (runbooks, diagrams, control evidence); make auditors happy without slowing engineers.## **What you’ll bring*** 10+ years building/running production infrastructure; 5+ years leading DevOps/SRE or platform teams; prior **Principal/Staff** scope.* **FedRAMP Moderate** experience and working with a 3PAO.* Deep IaC expertise (Terraform or Pulumi), GitOps, and modern CI/CD; wide breadth of knowledge, including container orchestration (ECS/EKS) and container security.* Multi-cloud proficiency (AWS strongly preferred).* Security engineering literacy: NIST/CIS/STIG, FIPS 140-2/3 crypto usage, key management (KMS/HSM), least-privilege IAM, and policy-as-code.* Observability at scale (metrics/logs/traces), performance tuning, and cost governance/FinOps practices.* Strong coding skills in at least one of **C++/Python/Golang/.NET**, plus Bash; able to build tooling and not just wire it together.* Excellent written design docs and clear, candid communication; proven track record mentoring senior engineers.* Nice-to-have: data pipeline or real-time video/ML workloads; service mesh (Istio), incident command experience.## **Values*** **No jerks*** **Be authentic*** **Be effective*** **Attention to detail*** **All in, all the time**## **Eligibility*** Must be authorized to work in the U.S. Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or other clearance may be required.## Apply for Principal Engineer, DevOps & Infrastructure at ZeroEyes