Principal DevOps Engineer at AEG Worldwide
Los Angeles, CA
$144,487–$210,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor DevOps/platform engineering role at a large live-entertainment company, responsible for architecting and operating multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, deploying microservices via IaC, and establishing observability and monitoring solutions. The role also involves mentoring other engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams to define KPIs and DevOps best practices.
Senior level · 6+ years · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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 40 people in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10–85
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 $164,459 (middle half $130,334–$195,752). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The title says 'Principal' but the scope and experience requirements (6-8 years, team-level mentoring, no org-wide technical authority) are consistent with a Senior engineer. Seniority is set to Senior accordingly.
The React/Angular/Vue.js/Ember.js requirement is framed as collaboration experience with teams using those frameworks, not hands-on front-end development — it is a required qualification but likely means familiarity rather than deep expertise.
The CI/CD tool requirement lists CircleCI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and AWS CodePipeline as interchangeable options; CircleCI is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives.
Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jenkins, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, Jira, Postman, and Slack appear in the essential functions narrative (stack/workflow context) rather than the formal Required Qualifications block, so they are marked preferred.
AWS and GCP are named in the job summary as part of the multi-cloud environment but are not explicitly listed as required qualifications; marked preferred.
The location is inferred as Los Angeles, CA based on AEG's well-known headquarters; the posting does not explicitly state a city.
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