Principal DevOps Engineer
System One · Pittsburgh, PA
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Jul 11, 2026
Pittsburgh, PA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract role focused on building and maintaining enterprise-scale CI/CD infrastructure, primarily around a GitHub Enterprise rollout. Day-to-day work involves designing GitHub Actions pipelines, migrating existing Jenkins workflows, developing reusable automation frameworks, and managing containerized deployments via Kubernetes/OpenShift and Helm. Best suited to a seasoned DevOps engineer with deep pipeline engineering experience in large, complex production environments, ideally in financial services.
Senior level · 10+ years · Pittsburgh, PA · Contract
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 50 people in the Pittsburgh, PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 20–75
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $127,238 (middle half $97,661–$159,195).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The posting lists multiple work locations (Pittsburgh PA, Strongsville/Cleveland OH, Birmingham AL, Dallas/Farmers Branch TX, Phoenix AZ) with an onsite-5-days/week requirement; Pittsburgh is used as the primary CBSA since it appears first and is referenced in the requisition ID.
The title says 'Principal DevOps Engineer' but the body refers to the role as 'Software Engineer Principal.' The actual requirements (10–15+ years, enterprise CI/CD platform engineering, deep GitHub Actions expertise) are consistent with a Senior-level individual contributor; 'Principal' in the title at a staffing/contract context does not reflect org-wide technical authority, so the role is sized as Senior.
The role is a contract engagement placed by staffing firm System One; no compensation figures are provided.
Golang, Python, Java, and JavaScript are listed as interchangeable options under 'one or more of' in the required programming languages section — Golang is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
Agile/Scrum, monitoring & observability, performance optimization, scalability engineering, operational readiness, Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint all appear under the 'Nice-to-Have Skills' section.
A Bachelor's degree is listed but explicitly accepts 'equivalent professional experience,' so no hard degree requirement is set.
Banking or Financial Services domain experience is listed as preferred, not a hard gate.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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