Principal Engineer, DevOps

We are seeking an experienced Principal Engineer, DevOps to provide Technical Leadership for the DevOps Group. This role combines hands-on technical expertise with technical leadership, ensuring the stability, scalability, and automation of our CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and deployment processes. This position will drive best practices, mentor team members, and collaborate closely with development and operations leaders to optimize our global SaaS platform. Off hours support as needed.

Success Metrics:

• Maintain deployment pipeline uptime of 99%+ with minimal manual intervention.
• Accelerate deployment lead times and reduce errors through automation.
• Deliver infrastructure-as-code solutions across services and regions.
• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing, distributed DevOps team.

ICIMS is a leading enterprise hiring platform that combines the scale and reliability of enterprise software with the transformative power of AI. Thousands of organizations across more than 200 countries and territories trust ICIMS to find and hire the people who shape their future and drive their business forward. Powered by insights from billions of hiring interactions, continuous AI innovation, and a highly extensible platform, ICIMS helps organizations turn talent acquisition into a competitive advantage. For more than 25 years, ICIMS has delivered end-to-end hiring solutions that improve recruiting efficiency, reduce costs and create exceptional candidate experiences. 

ICIMS helps solve one of the biggest challenges businesses face today: building a workforce that can adapt, scale, and perform in an increasingly competitive and unpredictable talent market. We uniquely do that by combining enterprise-grade hiring technology, AI-powered insights and automation, and connected talent experiences to help organizations improve hiring outcomes while driving measurable impact. 

Leadership:

• Mentor and develop a distributed team of 4-7 DevOps Engineers.
• Coordinate work across Ireland, India, and North America time zones.
• Drive alignment on priorities, sprint goals, and technical standards.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture.

CI/CD Pipeline Management:

• Oversee design, maintenance, and improvement of CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure consistent deployment practices across multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Implement quality gates and automated testing within release pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and resolve critical build and release issues.

Infrastructure Automation:

• Champion infrastructure-as-code practices (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM).
• Standardize cloud provisioning, configuration, and resource management.
• Lead adoption of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Modernize deployment workflows, phasing out legacy methods.

Development Support:

• Provide tooling and automation to improve developer productivity
• Propose Optimizations for development and staging environments
• Support containerization of applications and services
• Collaborate with engineering teams on deployment requirements and optimization

Monitoring & Operations:

• Define monitoring and alerting standards for developer infrastructure and pipelines.
• Ensure effective capacity planning and cost optimization.
• Participate in high-priority incident response and post-mortems.
• Maintain clear documentation and operational runbooks.

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform, or Software Engineering.
• 3+ years of experience mentoring engineering teams.
• Expertise with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Strong background in AWS (Azure and GCP exposure a plus).
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, or equivalent).
• Excellent communication skills for working across global teams.

Education/Certifications/Licenses:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field
• Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot deployments.
• Familiarity with database automation, monitoring, and secrets management.
• Cloud or Kubernetes certifications (AWS, Azure, CKA/CKAD).

iCIMS is a place where everyone belongs. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at iCIMS. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you’d like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at careers@icims.com.

• Direct employment with full legal benefits
• Major medical insurance including dental, vision, and travel coverage
• 100% remote work
• 18 days of vacation
• Support for furniture and equipment