Principal DevOps Engineer (AWS, GitLab)

Additional Location(s): US-CA-Santa Clara; US-CA-Valencia; 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 Principal DevOps Engineer is a senior, hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building and evolving CI/CD systems, release workflows and delivery automation for a centralized AWS-based cloud platform. This role will own the development and continuous improvement of a GitLab-driven delivery platform supporting multiple engineering teams within a regulated medical device environment.

The ideal candidate will drive the adoption of secure, scalable and compliant software delivery practices while ensuring operational stability, traceability and engineering efficiency across the software development lifecycle.

Work model, sponsorship, relocation:

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 position with an anticipated duration of 24 months from the employee’s start date. Based on business needs and individual performance, there may be an opportunity for this role to be considered for regular full-time employment in the future.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design, implement and maintain reusable GitLab CI/CD frameworks, including pipeline templates, shared components and standardized promotion workflows.
• Build and evolve centralized delivery platform capabilities that enable consistent, scalable software delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Define and govern Git-based development workflows, including branching strategies, merge request controls, approval gates and end-to-end traceability requirements.
• Develop Terraform-based infrastructure frameworks for AWS environments, including landing zones, shared services and application environments.
• Implement policy-as-code controls, secrets management, security scanning, artifact validation and least-privilege access models throughout delivery pipelines.
• Establish and mature release engineering practices, including artifact provenance, signed artifacts, promotion traceability and automated audit evidence collection.
• Design and support deployment strategies, including blue-green, canary and rolling deployments, with automated validation, monitoring and rollback capabilities.
• Integrate observability, deployment telemetry and operational insights into delivery workflows to improve release confidence, service reliability and incident readiness.
• Ensure environment consistency, disaster recovery validation, governance controls and cost allocation standards are embedded within platform and deployment processes.
• Partner with architecture, security, site reliability engineering (SRE) and software engineering teams to improve delivery performance, reliability and operational excellence.
• Evaluate emerging tools and technologies, document standards and best practices, and mentor engineering teams to advance DevOps maturity and platform adoption.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical field.
•  Minimum of 13 years' experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure or related technical disciplines.
• Minimum of 6 years' experience designing, implementing and supporting AWS-based cloud environments.
• Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD, including pipelines, runners, templates, automation frameworks and secure execution models.
• Experience building reusable delivery platforms and governed CI/CD workflows supporting multiple engineering teams.
• Experience implementing security, compliance and governance controls within software delivery pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of release engineering principles, including promotion models, artifact management, traceability and software delivery governance.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and container orchestration technologies, including Kubernetes; Amazon EKS experience preferred.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Python and Bash scripting.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience operating and administering GitLab at enterprise scale.
• Background working in regulated, compliance-driven or quality-managed environments.
• Knowledge of GitOps methodologies and progressive delivery strategies.
• Familiarity with observability platforms, service-level objectives (SLOs) and incident response practices.
• Exposure to policy-as-code frameworks and software supply chain security controls.
• Experience supporting cloud-based data platforms and integrated delivery pipelines.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cloud cost optimization, governance and operational efficiency initiatives within AWS environments.

Requisition ID: 630227 

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).

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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.