As a Principal DevOps Engineer II, you bring deep technical ownership to the systems that power VetConnect PLUS — shaping the direction of its AWS and GCP infrastructure, GitHub Actions pipelines, and Datadog observability alongside a close-knit agile team. You lead from within the team: writing production infrastructure code, mentoring engineers, driving technical decisions, and solving the most complex delivery and reliability challenges. You are the go-to person for the hardest problems, the most ambiguous requirements, and the broadest operational questions — and you make the engineers around you better in the process.
Beyond your embedded role, you lead the DXSE DevOps Squad — a group of 3–4 senior DevOps engineers embedded across Diagnostic Software Engineering teams — blending hands-on engineering with squad leadership, coaching, and organizational influence. You set the standard for how DevOps is done in DXSE and champion a culture where developers and testers own their operational footprint — you accelerate their capability, not replace it.
In This Role:
- You will work collaboratively with software application and engineering teams to deploy and operate our systems
- You will work collaboratively with business partners with strong focus on business outcomes
- You will use your Cloud experience
- You will build the whole stack from ELBs to databases
- You will automate and streamline operations and processes
- You will build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations
- You will troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test and production environments
- You will embrace, promote, and support frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
- You will participate in on-going learning
What You Will Need to Succeed:
- Your location: We are only considering those driving distance to our corporate HQ in Westbrook, Maine with the flexible hybrid requirement of only 8 days per month on-site. Alternatively, we are also open to those in NH or MA that can do on-sites less often.
- 10+ years of demonstrated experience designing and executing deployments with little to no outage window as well as demonstrated experience building, deploying, and configuring full application stacks (Java Spring)
- Coding or scripting proficiency
- Demonstrated re-engineering experience
- Communicating and collaborating with others, especially across functional border
- Preferred - Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services
- Experience with SQL and MySQL (NoSQL experience is a plus)
- Experience using a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Experience creating repeatable deployment templates or similar to build services that support our various software applications
- A working understanding of code and script (PHP, Python, JSON, Perl and/or Ruby)
- Strong grasp of automation tools
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
- Financial acumen - Able to balance cost with requirements
What you can expect from us:
3 Base annual salary target: $140000 - $160000 (yes, we do have flexibility if needed)
3 Opportunity for annual cash bonus as well as yearly equity award
3 Health / Dental / Vision Benefits Day-One
3 5% matching 401k
3 Additional benefits including but not limited to financial support, pet insurance, mental health resources, volunteer paid days off, employee stock program, foundation donation matching, and much more!
