Principal Engineer 1- DevOps & Modernization (AWS)

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Drive DevOps and platform practices supporting MPS applications

• Design and operate CI/CD pipelines with automation, quality gates, and embedded security

• Build and maintain shared DevOps platforms, reusable pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code to enable development teams

• Architect and build systems and delivery pipelines that meet PCI and HIPAA compliance requirements

• Define and promote best practices for application monitoring, alerting, and performance instrumentation

• Influence development teams to take ownership of performance, capacity planning, and operational readiness

• Partner with engineering, security, and risk teams to translate compliance requirements into scalable technical patterns

• Support incident response, post‑incident reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Eight or more years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Strong expertise in DevOps and platform engineering, supporting large‑scale, transaction‑based applications

• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with automation, quality gates, and embedded security

• Hands‑on experience building shared DevOps platforms, reusable pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure and/or AWS) and modern platform tooling

• Experience architecting and operating systems in regulated environments (PCI required; HIPAA preferred)

• Solid understanding of application monitoring, alerting, performance instrumentation, and operational readiness

• Demonstrated ability to influence and enable development teams through standards, tooling, and best practices

• Strong partnership and communication skills, with experience translating security, risk, and compliance requirements into scalable technical solutions

Location expectations 
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

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