Principal Engineer, DevOps
Black Duck Software, Inc.Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Posted September 18, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity.
Job Description
Black Duck Software, Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer, DevOps to lead the transformation from traditional DevOps to a self-service Internal Developer Platform (IDP) and architect and scale enterprise internal developer platforms.
Requirements
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Architecture roles, with proven leadership and product ownership experience.
- Expert-level cloud architecture experience across GCP, AWS, and Azure, including enterprise networking and distributed systems at scale.
- Mastery of modern platform technologies: Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), service mesh, and RBAC/IAM frameworks.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Node.js; experience building developer portals (Backstage) and AI/ML-powered tooling.
- Proven track record implementing intelligent operational systems, monitoring, and distributed tracing solutions.
- Experience with cloud governance, FinOps optimization, networking security, compliance frameworks, and deployment automation (canary deployments, feature flags).
- Excellent communication and mentoring skills; understanding of DORA metrics and data-driven platform improvement methodologies.
