Principal Engineer (contract)

Responsibilities

• Design and develop reusable GitHub Actions, CI/CD templates, and deployment automation frameworks.
• Build and maintain standardized deployment patterns using Harness CD and OpenShift/Kubernetes.
• Integrate security and quality controls into pipelines, including Sonar, Checkmarx, Black Duck, GitHub Secret Scanning, and DAST.
• Create reference architectures, starter repositories, implementation guides, and engineering standards.
• Enable adoption of P2P RCM through automation, onboarding support, and developer enablement.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, and DevSecOps best practices.
• Drive platform engineering excellence through golden-path repositories, reusable patterns, and DORA metrics.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate across Architecture, Security, Platform Engineering, and Governance teams.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering experience with advanced Python development and a track record of leading complex engineering initiatives.
• Expertise building web applications and APIs using frameworks such as Django, FastAPI, and Flask.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing CI/CD automation and DevOps practices, including GitHub Actions and reusable workflow development.
• Hands-on experience integrating security and quality scanning tools into CI/CD pipelines, including Sonar, Checkmarx, Black Duck, GitHub Secret Scanning, and DAST.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and container orchestration technologies, including OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and operating deployment automation using Harness CD or comparable deployment tools, including promotion, approvals, and rollback strategies.
• Strong DevSecOps and application security engineering experience, including compliance automation and vulnerability management.
• Proven ability to collaborate across engineering, security, platform, architecture, and governance organizations to deliver reusable standards and drive adoption.
• Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot in a professional engineering environment.
• Experience developing and supporting enterprise-scale Django applications; familiarity with Wagtail CMS and Wagtail CRX (CodeRed CMS) is highly desirable.
• Strong knowledge of OpenShift and Kubernetes platform engineering, including multi-tenant environments, governance, observability, and operational best practices.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, and ArgoCD.
• Deep understanding of enterprise branching strategies, repository governance, and release management practices.
• Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), observability platforms, and incident management workflows.
• Familiarity with API-first design and spec-driven development approaches.