Principal DevOps Engineer

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We became a public benefit corporation (PBC) in 2021, legally balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors. We are a Work Anywhere company, supporting flexibility to work from home or in the office.The RoleThe Veeva PLM team is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to design and build our next-gen infrastructure on AWS. Lead the migration of our platform and create a new, scalable environment from scratch. You will have complete ownership over tooling and the CI/CD pipeline in a startup-like setting. This is a hands-on, self-starter role that balances performance, cost, and reliability.What You’ll DoLead the architectural vision. Provide deep expertise in cloud architecture, design patterns, and modern programming to build a highly scalable and reliable infrastructure.Drive DevOps best practices. Implement a robust Infrastructure as Code (IaC) strategy using Terraform and Ansible to manage, deploy, and scale infrastructure.Build the CI/CD pipeline. Design and manage end-to-end CI/CD workflows, automating processes to make development lifecycle across Development, QA, Stage and production deployments more efficient.Ensure platform reliability. Focus on durability, availability, performance, and correctness to minimize risk of failures.Shape the future of our stack. Recommend and implement architectural enhancements, security policies, and new methodologies that define operations.RequirementsExperienced DevOps Professional: At least 5 years in a DevOps role with a focus on automation, tooling, and building distributed, scalable systems.AWS Expertise: Design and implement deployment architectures within AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, IAM, S3, etc.).Containerization & Orchestration: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container frastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient with Terraform or Ansible.CI/CD & Git: Expertise in GitLab and experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD).Monitoring & Observability: Understanding of monitoring frameworks; Grafana, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch are a plus.Location: This role requires in PST or MST time zone.Work authorization: Applicants must have unrestricted right to work in the United States. Sponsorship is not provided.Nice to HaveProficiency in scripting languages like Bash or Groovy.Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Elasticsearch).Knowledge of artifact management solutions (Nexus, ECR).Familiarity with code validation and linting tools (Sonar).Perks & BenefitsMedical, dental, vision, and basic life insuranceFlexible PTO and company-paid holidaysRetirement programs1% charitable giving programCompensationBase pay: $150,000 - $300,000The salary range is provided to comply with local regulations and may vary by experience and location. Offers may include additional compensation such as bonuses and/or stock.Veeva’s headquarters is in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries. Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by law. For accommodation requests, contact . #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-09-27