Principal DevOps Architect

About the role

As a Principal DevOps Architect, Engineering Services at MKS, you will help shape how engineering teams across the company build, test, secure, and deliver software. This is a high-impact technical role for someone who enjoys both the strategic and technical. You will solve complex DevOps challenges at enterprise scale, partnering directly with engineering teams, IT, and Security to architect and modernize our DevOps ecosystem, simplify a diverse tool landscape, create reusable engineering solutions, and establish platforms that teams can rely on. Approximately 20% of your time will be assisting with the administration of tools such as GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, GitLab, and Jenkins. You will have the opportunity to influence the future direction of DevOps at MKS, from CI/CD architecture and developer workflows to DevSecOps, automation, reliability, and software delivery standards. You will report to the Manager, Engineering Services. This is a hybrid role with two days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture for MKS's enterprise DevOps capability, including source control, CI/CD, artifact management, release automation, DevSecOps, reliability, and platform governance.
• Modernize and simplify a complex DevOps ecosystem spanning GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, CloudBees CI, Nexus, Perforce, Bitbucket, and related engineering platforms.
• Architect reusable CI/CD solutions including pipeline templates, shared libraries, automated testing, quality gates, artifact promotion, and repeatable release patterns that engineering teams can adopt at scale.
• Solve challenging platform and developer-experience problems by identifying friction, technical debt, reliability gaps, and opportunities for automation and standardization.
• Partner with Security and IT to build security into engineering workflows through identity management, secrets management, least-privilege access, vulnerability scanning, auditability, and software supply chain controls.
• Set technical direction and influence engineering practices across teams and sites, while providing enough flexibility to support different products and engineering environments.
• Establish and lead the DevOps Center of Excellence, creating practical standards, reference architectures, documentation, training, mentoring, and a strong engineering community of practice.
• Serve as a principal-level technical advisor to engineering teams, helping teams solve difficult CI/CD, platform, reliability, release, and DevSecOps challenges.
• Improve the long-term reliability and supportability of engineering platforms through better automation, ownership, documentation, observability, and operational practices.
• Take and follow directions and instructions; interact with other employees, customers, suppliers, vendors, or the public in a safe, professional, and respectful manner.
• Access sensitive and confidential business systems and software, personally identifying information, the company's financial information, and/or maintain physical security and safety; trustworthiness, reliability, and good judgment are material job duties.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a