Principal DevOps Engineer

Overview Join to apply for the Principal DevOps Engineer role at Veeva Systems . 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’re not just any public company – we became a public benefit corporation (PBC) in 2021, legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors. We operate as a Work Anywhere company, supporting flexibility to work from home or in the office. Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities. The Role The 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’ll 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 Do Lead 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 the development lifecycle across Development, QA, Stage, and production deployments more efficient. Ensure platform reliability. Focus on durability, availability, performance, and correctness to minimize the risk of failures. Shape the future of our stack. Recommend and implement architectural enhancements, security policies, and new methodologies that will define how we operate. Requirements Experienced DevOps Professional: at least 5 years of hands-on DevOps experience with a focus on automation, tooling, and building distributed, scalable systems. AWS Expertise: experience designing and implementing deployment architectures in AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, IAM, S3, and more). Containerization & Orchestration: hands-on experience with Kubernetes and other container technologies. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): skilled in Terraform or Ansible. CI/CD & Git: proficient with GitLab and CI/CD tools (Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD). Monitoring & Observability: solid understanding of monitoring; experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and Elasticsearch is a plus. Location: must be in PST or MST time zone. Eligibility: Applicants must have unrestricted right to work in the United States. Sponsorship is not provided. Nice to Have Proficiency 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). Learn More Engineer Perspective: 3 Reasons to Consider Veeva Engineering at Veeva Perks & Benefits Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance PTO and company paid holidays Retirement programs 1% charitable giving program Compensation Base pay: $150,000 - $210,000 CAD The salary range is provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range. Actual salaries may vary based on experience and location. Additional compensation may include variable bonus 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 local laws. For accommodation requests during the application process, contact #J-18808-Ljbffr