Azure Principal DevOps Engineer

Additional Location(s): US-CA-Valencia; US-CA-Santa Clara; US-MN-Arden Hills

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.           

About the role:

Boston Scientific was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Workplaces for Engineers in 2026, reflecting a culture where engineers do meaningful work.

The Azure Principal DevOps Engineer is a senior, hands-on technical leader who owns CI/CD standards, promotion workflows and release automation governance for an Azure-based platform in a regulated medical device environment. This role designs, builds and evolves reusable delivery capabilities that make secure, reliable and governed software delivery the default.

You will shape how infrastructure, application and platform changes move from source control through build, test, release and production operations, enabling fast delivery without compromising safety, compliance or operational stability. This role operates at the intersection of platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), security and application teams, transforming delivery into a product rather than a collection of one-off pipelines and manual processes.

At Boston Scientific, we value collaboration and synergy. This role follows a hybrid work model requiring employees to be in our local office at least three days per week. Boston Scientific will not offer sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time. Relocation assistance is not available for this position at this time.

This is a defined-term role with an expected duration of 24 months from the employee’s start date. There is no guarantee of full-time employment beyond the listed duration.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and implement reusable Azure DevOps patterns across source control, build automation, release orchestration, environment promotion and deployment validation for application and platform workloads.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules, pipeline templates and Terraform-based compositions supporting landing zones, platform services, application environments and sandbox lifecycle controls.
• Translate security and governance requirements into automated delivery controls, including policy-as-code, approval gates, security scanning, secrets management, artifact provenance, least-privilege access and release governance.
• Standardize build, test and release evidence capture to ensure traceable quality gates, signed artifacts and auditable approvals for all promotion decisions.
• Enable safe and resilient delivery through blue-green, canary, rolling and feature flag deployment strategies, including rollback design, smoke validation and change evidence capture.
• Partner with architecture, security, SRE, platform engineering and product teams to improve release readiness, reduce lead time and remove friction from compliant delivery.
• Embed observability, alerting, incident response and recovery workflows into release pipelines through deployment telemetry, runbook integration and rollback readiness.
• Design delivery capabilities that incorporate cost control, environment parity and operational resilience, including tagging standards, capacity-aware deployments, backup and disaster recovery validation.
• Evaluate and implement delivery technologies, document standards and architectural decisions and coach engineers to elevate DevOps maturity across the organization.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or a related technical field.
• Minimum of 13 years' experience in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering or cloud operations, including minimum of 6 years' experience designing and delivering cloud-native platforms on Azure or comparable environments.
• Minimum of 4 years' experience designing and implementing reusable delivery platforms, including infrastructure-as-code modules, CI/CD pipeline templates and governed release workflows.
• Minimum of 4 years' experience building and operating automated build, test, deployment and rollback processes in production environments, preferably supporting regulated or sensitive workloads.
• Minimum of 4 years' experience implementing security and governance controls within delivery pipelines, including policy enforcement, approvals, secrets management, artifact validation, access control and security scanning.
• Demonstrated experience with Azure platform services across compute, networking, storage, identity, governance and operations, including Azure DevOps, GitHub, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Kubernetes Service and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Strong experience with release engineering practices, including environment promotion, deployment gating, versioning, traceability, artifact signing and software provenance.
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python and Bash, with working knowledge of Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and platform management.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes-based platforms and containerized workload orchestration.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a related field.
• Experience leading platform modernization or DevOps transformation initiatives with measurable improvements in deployment frequency, stability and recovery time.
• Experience with GitOps tools such as Flux or Argo CD and progressive delivery or configuration management practices.
• Experience with cloud-native observability, distributed tracing, service-level objectives (SLOs) and incident response practices.
• Experience with policy-as-code, software supply chain security and provenance controls.
• Familiarity with regulated environments such as medical device or clinical industries requiring strict change control, validation and auditability.
• Experience supporting integrated delivery pipelines across applications, infrastructure and data platforms in Azure environments.
• Experience with container registries, image scanning, dependency management and secure software delivery practices.

Requisition ID: 628686 

Minimum Salary: $ 106800 

Maximum Salary: $ 202900 

The anticipated compensation listed above and the value of core and optional employee benefits offered by Boston Scientific (BSC) – see www.bscbenefitsconnect.com—will vary based on actual location of the position and other pertinent factors considered in determining actual compensation for the role. Compensation will be commensurate with demonstrable level of experience and training, pertinent education including licensure and certifications, among other relevant business or organizational needs. At BSC, it is not typical for an individual to be hired near the bottom or top of the anticipated salary range listed above.

Compensation for non-exempt (hourly), non-sales roles may also include variable compensation from time to time (e.g., any overtime and shift differential) and annual bonus target (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

Compensation for exempt, non-sales roles may also include variable compensation, i.e., annual bonus target and long-term incentives (subject to plan eligibility and other requirements).

For MA positions: It is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test for employment. Violators are subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Boston Scientific transforms lives through innovative medical technologies that improve the health of patients around the world. As a global medical technology leader for more than 45 years, we advance science for life by providing a broad range of high-performance solutions that address unmet patient needs and reduce the cost of healthcare. Our portfolio of devices and therapies helps physicians diagnose and treat complex cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, oncological, neurological and urological diseases and conditions. Learn more at www.bostonscientific.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

Boston Scientific Corporation has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To ensure full implementation of its equal employment policy, the Company will continue to take steps to assure that recruitment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and all other personnel decisions are made and administered without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information or any other protected class.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

Among other requirements, Boston Scientific maintains specific prohibited substance test requirements for safety-sensitive positions.  This role is deemed safety-sensitive and, as such, candidates will be subject to a prohibited substance test as a requirement.  The goal of the prohibited substance testing is to increase workplace safety in compliance with the applicable law.