Principal, Research Technology Engineer

***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***

***We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent full-time role***

A prestigious company is looking for a Principal, Research Technology Engineer. This engineer will focus on strategy, research, and development of new technologies for observability/enterprise level monitoring. This role will be in an R&D lab, doing testing and engineering of new technologies within containerization, Cloud, and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities:

• Key contributor to technology platform design, testing, and implementation process to introduce new technology and improve existing technology initiatives for hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure within company Data Centers.
• Define and implement testing and success criteria for platforms, products, and technologies to ensure alignment with business, security, and architecture objectives.
• Lead and participate in exploratory proof-of-concept engagements and technology stress testing to determine solution feasibility and stability.
• Collaborate with various partner teams across technology, security, and business to provide technical consultation as part of projects and daily business activities.
• Create technical knowledge and guideline documentation for new and existing technologies to assist partner teams with knowledge transfer for execution and operations.
• Develop and maintain scalable DevSecOps pipelines, including CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated security scanning.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree or higher in a technical field
• 10+ years of progressive experience as a senior/lead engineer in a DevOps, SRE or infrastructure-focused role
• Deep expertise in cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.) and infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Strong background in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with experience integration security testing and compliance
• Proficient in scripting and programing languages such as Python, Bash or Go
• Understanding of traditional on-premises data center technologies and hybrid cloud architecture
• Experience developing CI/CD workflows using tools like Github Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps Pipelines, AWS CodePipeline, etc..
• Familiarity with GitOps driven deployment tooling with solutions using tools like ArgoCD, FluxCD, etc..
• In-depth knowledge of Observability and enterprise-level monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions through tools like Prometheus, Elasticsearch, Grafana, etc..
• Experience with Cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, ECS or Azure Container instances.
• Understanding of enterprise-grade networking technologies, including routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers.
• Knowledge of network security protocols and certificate-based authentication
• Deeply experienced with infrastructure as code, like Terraform, OpenTofu or Pulumi
• Experience working with authentication protocols and suites ( LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, ), multi-factor authentication and password-less platforms and technologies, role-based access control and entitlements, etc.
• Solid understanding of common database technologies on-premises and in the cloud (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, MSSQL, etc..), data field hardening and encryption, access controls, high-availability, etc.