DevOps Principal Lead

We are a technology company that equips organizations to be agile and innovative, and for their people to be productive, creative and happier at work. That means moving them to the cloud, helping them build the workplace of tomorrow, and enabling them to make smarter decisions about their technology portfolio. By doing these things, we create success faster and in circumstances otherwise not possible.

We stand proudly for our people and support their success through career development and advancement. We are recognized and respected for our culture of inclusion and belonging, continuously striving to do what’s good for our people and communities.

The impact you will have:

Design Studio is seeking a DevOps Principal to expand its IT Strategy Advisory capabilities. You will manage engagements advising clients at the highest strategic level with big-picture and tactical guidance on how technology enables a wide range of business outcomes. You must possess analytical, interpersonal, and creative thinking capabilities. You will need to be ambitious, enterprising, and personable, possessing outstanding leadership qualities, allowing you to assume a critical role in the Studio and scale over time.

For clients, the Principal connects them to unique perspectives and constructive disruptions that inspire them to drive the future story of their business together with. They co-create, accelerate, and deliver a digital transformational journey built on deep customer knowledge and empathy. Principals guide customers through three elements of the digital transformation journey – strategic, technical, and cultural so that customers can continue to innovate on their own.

What you’ll do:

As a Principal, you will play a critical role in driving the design, development, and implementation of diverse public cloud initiatives (AWS, Azure, GCP). You will be responsible for providing cutting-edge technology solutions to Fortune 500 enterprises.

  • Be an active leader and play a key role in the end-to-end client engagement – deliver technology-enabled future solutions. This will involve all business value chain activities from understanding product needs to product development to ongoing maintenance and enhancement.
  • Work directly with existing and potential clients to develop and sell industry-leading software-based platform solutions.
  • Connect customers to unique perspectives and constructive disruptions that inspire them to drive the future story of their business.
  • Co-create, accelerate, and deliver a digital transformation journey built on deep customer knowledge and empathy.
  • Guide customers through the three elements of the digital journey – strategic, technical, and cultural so that clients can continue to innovate on their own.

Finally, you will be an active learner, identifying new or better ways to deliver impact with people and technology. You will develop a growth mindset and relish opportunities to use familiar and unfamiliar technologies, closed source, and open-source software. You will embrace agile software development practices and contribute to a growing and improving our PODS. Through cross-functional collaboration, you will also hone your business and consulting skills through interactions with non-technical colleagues.


What you’ll bring to the table:

Our Principals know their customer industries, business, and how we can help them drive their digital transformation. This role's broad scope of responsibility requires a solid understanding of both business and technology strategy, change management, and a principled approach to broad digital transformation challenges and opportunities. They also share a common set of characteristics – such as strong leadership and people skills – and bring the experience that drives innovation and customer value.

  • Minimum 5 years’ experience in driving the strategy, architecture, design, and implementation of cloud initiatives.
  • Good understanding of container orchestration platforms like Docker, Kubernetes, ECS or Others.
  • Strong experience using infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or others.
  • Experience in one or more programming language’s (Ruby or Python, Perl or BASH).
  • Experience configuring, deploying and/or maintaining containers and related orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.)
  • Experience configuring, deploying, and/or maintaining GKE or OpenShift clusters.
  • Experience with a major cloud or virtualization provider such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services, VMWare, OpenStack, etc.
  • Results-driven and goal-oriented.
  • How scalable, enterprise-level systems are deployed including network, security, infrastructure systems.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Demonstrated, applied experience establishing and delivering complex projects.
  • Passion for presenting, training, teaching.

Job Type
Full-Time Regular