What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead DevOps Engineer position at Eaton?
Eaton’s ES AMER ARS division is currently seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer. This is a Full Time role working Monday-Friday, Daylight hours. This role is Hybrid (2 days from home) and can be based out of our Moon Township, PA or Peachtree City, GA location.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $105000 - $154000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What You’ll Do
Eaton's Energy Transition organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance development efficiency and software delivery across a portfolio of connected energy products. This role will work with firmware, software, and quality engineering teams to develop automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and developer platforms that improve reliability, reduce manual effort, and support the long-term sustainment and evolution of our products.
The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, developer productivity, CI/CD technologies, and creating highly efficient engineering workflows that enable teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality products.
What You'll Do
Required Qualifications
Why Join Us
You will play a key role in enabling the delivery of next-generation energy management and connected device solutions by building the platforms, automation, and development experiences that power engineering productivity across the organization.
You'll join a collaborative, highly technical team that values ownership, continuous improvement, and practical problem solving. We encourage engineers to challenge existing processes, drive automation initiatives, and help shape the tools and platforms that enable our products and teams to succeed.
Location
Preferred locations are Peachtree City, GA and Pittsburgh, PA. Remote candidates within the United States will also be considered.
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $105000 - $154000 a year.
Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
What You’ll Do
Eaton's Energy Transition organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance development efficiency and software delivery across a portfolio of connected energy products. This role will work with firmware, software, and quality engineering teams to develop automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing infrastructure, and developer platforms that improve reliability, reduce manual effort, and support the long-term sustainment and evolution of our products.
The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, developer productivity, CI/CD technologies, and creating highly efficient engineering workflows that enable teams to deliver secure, reliable, and high-quality products.
What You'll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting firmware, embedded software, backend services, and engineering tools.
- Develop automation solutions that reduce manual effort and improve engineering efficiency.
- Build and maintain engineering infrastructure, development platforms, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions supporting development, testing, and release operations.
- Enhance developer experience through self-service tools, automation frameworks, and platform improvements.
- Support release management, artifact management, deployment automation, and environment management.
- Implement monitoring, observability, and operational excellence practices across development and production systems.
- Design and maintain development, build, and release processes that support cybersecurity, regulatory, and product compliance requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Support automated test execution environments and integration with quality engineering processes.
- Drive adoption of DevOps and DevSecOps best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure, deployment, and automation challenges.
- Partner with firmware, software, and quality engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, security, and engineering productivity.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- 5 years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Build Engineering, Release Engineering, or related roles.
- 4 years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- 4 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
- 4 years of experience with containerization technologies and automated build/test environments.
- 4 years of scripting and automation experience using Bash, Python, or similar languages.
- 3 years of experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now and in the future
- No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates that currently reside within the immediate geographical area of 50 miles of the facility listed will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation
- Experience supporting highly available software delivery and engineering automation platforms.
- Experience with source control systems and modern software development practices.
- Strong troubleshooting, collaboration, and communication skills.
- Experience with GitHub Enterprise and CI/CD pipeline automation using GitHub Actions, including self-hosted runner administration, workflow optimization, and enterprise security best practices.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot and their application to software development, infrastructure automation, and engineering productivity.
- Experience supporting embedded software, firmware, or IoT product development environments.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks and test infrastructure.
- Knowledge of cloud security, monitoring, and observability solutions.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures and container-based deployments.
- Experience supporting embedded software build, test, and release processes, including Makefile-based build systems.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices and supporting compliance-driven development environments.
Why Join Us
You will play a key role in enabling the delivery of next-generation energy management and connected device solutions by building the platforms, automation, and development experiences that power engineering productivity across the organization.
You'll join a collaborative, highly technical team that values ownership, continuous improvement, and practical problem solving. We encourage engineers to challenge existing processes, drive automation initiatives, and help shape the tools and platforms that enable our products and teams to succeed.
Location
Preferred locations are Peachtree City, GA and Pittsburgh, PA. Remote candidates within the United States will also be considered.
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.
Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.
You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.
To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at 1-800-836-6345 to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.
We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
Salary : $105,000 - $154,000