DevOps Principal Engineer - Empower

Waters is currently seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to work in our Engineering Infrastructure team to enhance our adoption of Cloud infrastructure, maintaining monitoring and alerting tooling, and maintain continuous delivery pipelines. 

We work in a collaborative, agile environment, where team members are empowered to innovate and continually improve. We believe strongly in the value of personal development and provide support and dedicated time for our people to pursue this. 

A self-starter attitude, excellent communication, and dedication to innovative technologies are critical to this role. 

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, design, document and implement quality solutions   

• Work independently and as part of a team with deep focus on hard technical problems and explain the why, how, and what, that makes your solution technically sound, provide constructive feedback regarding best practices, performance, and maintainability   

• Lead epic refinement meetings to ensure stories are understood and decomposed adequately 

• Stay ahead of the curve with respect to new technologies and techniques with an eye towards continual improvement of both the team’s skill set and the product goals    

• Lead and drive the design and maintain a “one-click” deployment pipeline using a combination of Terraform and Spinnaker on Kubernetes. 

• Lead the design of secure, scalable, operationally robust infrastructure (primarily on AWS). 

• Continuously improve and refine the build and deployment process. 

• Develop and improve our monitoring and observability tooling. 

• Assist in the maintenance of the development, staging and production environments and deployments. 

• Empower and enable your delivery teammates by helping them help themselves. 

• Support production platforms and assisting in incident support.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or other related discipline or equivalent work experience required  

• 2+ years of recent experience with modern CI/CD solutions  

• 8+ year’s experience in a software organization. 

Preferred Experience 

• Expertise with AWS cloud technologies 

• Expertise with containerization technology, such as Docker 

• Expertise with container orchestration technologies, such as Kubernetes. 

• Expertise with infrastructure configuration management and orchestration tools, especially Terraform. 

• Expertise with CI/CD platforms / tools, e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps etc. 

• Experience with metric driven monitoring and alerting systems. 

• Proficiency in at least one statically or dynamically compiled programming language. Preference with one or more of the following: Python, C#, Groovy, Go  

• Experience of leading and mentoring other developers. 

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance. Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.