Principal DevOps Engineer

Overview

Sedaro is hiring a Principal DevOps E ngineer to build our culture of operational excellence . In this role, you will integrate CI/CD, security, and observability tools and automation for our Kubernetes-based multi-cloud environment , as well as rallying your teammates toward best practices.

• Team: DevSecOps Enablement, reporting to the Director of Engineering

• Location: In person in Arlington, VA (hybrid)

• U . S . Citizen or permanent resident status require d

Who We Are

Our cloud-native simulation platform enables digital mission engineering through distributed, scalable, faster than real-time analyses across hundreds of interacting systems. We use CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes to achieve high availability, security, and autoscaling across cloud providers. Join us as an early employee and transform how teams collaboratively engineer the next generation of Aerospace & Defense systems.

Who You Are

• You see beauty in a well-oiled machine

• You take ownership of technical challenges and celebrate team wins

• You thrill in equipping your teammates with force-multiplying tools and practices

• You embrace experimentation and autonomy without compromising quality

• You’re energized by deep learning and sharing knowledge across disciplines

What You’ll Do

• Optimize multi-cloud production infrastructure for security, reliability, and cost efficiency

• Design and implement system observability with actionable alerting and measurable SLOs

• Drive automation through infrastructure as code, CI/CD , and continuous compliance

• Lead root cause analysis and blameless post-mortem discussions

• Search out risks using chaos engineering activities

• Coach operational and security best practices throughout the company

• Foster Lean practices and a culture of continuous improvement

Benefits

• Equity

• Unlimited PTO

• 401(k) with 4% match

• 100% premium payment for Medical Insurance

• Parental Leave

• Flexible work schedule with core hours

• Company provided lunches 3 days a week

• Industry-leading career development opportunities

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

• 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering

• Expertise with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems architecture

• Expertise with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and observability practices

• Track record implementing security controls and vulnerability management

• Proficiency in scripting and automation

• Experience leading incident response and root cause analysis

• Proven ability to drive organizational adoption of technical best practices

Additional desirable experience:

• Experience with Kubernetes , Docker, and Terraform CDKTF

• Experience with AWS and/or Azure

• Experience with IL4/5+ and /or NIST 800-171