Hiring: Principal DevOps Engineer Company: Verisk Location: Boston, MA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 11:50:04 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Azure DevOps, CDK, CI/CD, Docker, GitHub Actions, GitHub Enterprise, Java, Kubernetes, Microservices, Python, SaaS, Terraform About the job Experience: •10+ years in DevOps or Platform Engineering, including 5+ years in a senior or lead role. •3+ years designing and operating solutions on AWS cloud services and architecture. •5+ years of hands‑on development experience in Python, Java, or a similar language. •2+ years of hands‑on experience with GitHub Enterprise (including Actions and branch rulesets). •50 years, Verisk has been the leading data analytics and technology partner to the global insurance industry by delivering value to our clients through expertise and scale. We empower communities and businesses to make better decisions on risk, faster. Required Skills: •Design and evolve a modern DevOps platform that enables engineering teams to own their build, test, and deployment workflows end‑to‑end. •Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) for microservices, data workloads, and batch jobs, emphasizing self‑service and repeatability. •Define and enforce repository and branching standards, code quality practices, and automation patterns across engineering teams. •Architect and implement infrastructure‑as‑code using AWS CDK and Terraform for consistent, auditable environment provisioning. •Partner with production/IT operations teams by giving them robust, automated deployment workflows and infrastructure patterns rather than directly running production. •Partner cross-functionally with architects and senior engineers to set technical direction and make key platform decisions around resiliency, security, and scalability. •Drive best practices around observability and reliability (dashboards, alerts, logs, traces) so production teams have the insight they need to operate services. •Produce clear documentation, reference implementations, and templates that help teams adopt common patterns quickly. Qualifications: •Strong software engineering background with 5+ years of hands‑on development experience in Python, Java, or a similar language. •Proven experience architecting, building, and deploying microservices in distributed, production environments. •Strong architecture experience designing large‑scale CI/CD and release engineering infrastructure. •Demonstrated experience establishing and enforcing repository standards, naming conventions, and governance policies at scale. •Expert‑level proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure‑as‑code at scale. •Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration. •Excellent communication skills with the ability to provide technical leadership and collaborate effectively across functions/teams. •Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field •AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect certification Compensation: •$140,000 - $175,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!