Principal Devops Engineer Jobs in Oklahoma
Principal Devops Engineer jobs in Oklahoma are concentrated in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, where established employers like Love's Travel Stops, ONEOK, and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center maintain enterprise infrastructure teams that regularly seek senior devops leadership. Demand is strongest in cloud platform engineering, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipeline architecture, driven by energy sector digital transformation and growing financial technology operations across the state. Oklahoma's senior devops market skews toward candidates with multi-cloud experience and hands-on Kubernetes expertise at scale. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Gitwit is hiring a principal product designer to lead product experiences for new AI products.
This is not a role for polishing someone else’s roadmap. You will help decide what the product should be, how the workflow should work, where the user needs to understand or approve what the system does, what should be tested first, and what should ship.
We are looking for a high-agency product thinker who can turn ambiguous AI venture concepts into testable, usable, shippable product experiences.
We are on pace to launch 15+ ventures in the next four years. For a designer, that means repeated chances to work on the most interesting part of company building: the first version.
You are not maintaining one mature product for years. You are helping create new companies from the beginning. Shaping the ambiguity, user proximity, product decisions, prototypes, first launches, early signal, and handoff to a founding team.
You will work shoulder to shoulder with discovery, product strategy, engineering, brand, and venture leadership to shape the first version of the company and product. The vision is shared. The product experience - how it works, where it earns trust, and where it gets out of the user’s way - is yours to lead.
Early on, the work is hands-on and collaborative: wireframing in a room, shaping feature plans, prototyping with AI, sitting with users, and pulling apart what they say, what they do, where they hesitate, and what they actually need.
You are never tossing screens over a wall. You build next to an engineer in tight rotation, make product calls, test them quickly, and keep the distance between decision and working product short.
After the initial product, you stay close to what happens next. Analyzing what users understand, where they hesitate, what breaks down, and what the early signal suggests. You work with discovery, product strategy, and engineering to turn that learning into sharper product decisions and better next versions.
What You’ll Do
- Lead zero-to-one product design for new AI products, from blank canvas through first launch and iteration.
- Translate user observation, research, and usage signals into product hypotheses, experiments, and design decisions.
- Design AI workflows where the product may not behave the same way twice - including changing outputs, wrong or uncertain answers, human review, approval moments, fallback paths, and clear next steps.
- Generate multiple design directions, weigh tradeoffs, make the call, and explain the reasoning clearly.
- Prototype quickly to help the team learn what is real before overbuilding.
- Work tightly with product strategists, researchers, engineers, designers, and venture leaders to turn a promising idea into something real enough to test.
- Create clear, engineer-ready design systems for early products: flows, components, states, edge cases, interaction patterns, and implementation-ready specs.
- Bring discipline and meticulousness to how design gets built across the studio, so engineers are not guessing and each product does not have to reinvent the basics from scratch.
- Help the studio get smarter with each AI product by capturing what we learn about review, correction, approval, uncertainty, failure states, and user trust — and sharing those learnings clearly with the team so each new venture starts sharper than the last.
- Stepped into an active venture, understood the product direction quickly, and identified the first design moves that would reduce risk, test key assumptions, and help the team move faster.
- Taken ownership of a new venture concept from the beginning - helping shape the workflow, product direction, prototype, and first version the team can test.
- Helped run lightweight user tests or experiments with discovery and product strategy to validate core product assumptions.
- Converted early signal into prioritized design iterations.
- Created the early design system, flows, states, and specs that engineers need to build quickly and consistently without guessing.
But you do need to be actively thinking about how AI changes product design.
In one venture, that might mean designing how a user reviews and corrects an AI-generated recommendation. In another, it might mean replacing a dashboard with a workflow that quietly watches, decides, asks for approval, and acts.
The craft is changing. This work is less about pushing pixels around a fixed dashboard interface and more about designing how AI-enabled products help people get work done: what the system handles, what the user controls, where trust breaks, how mistakes get caught, and what happens next.
The Kind of Designer We’re Looking For
More than any particular background, we are looking for someone who has done early, ambiguous, zero-to-one work and wants more of it.
If you see yourself in most of these, we should talk.
- Zero-to-one ownership. You have taken ambiguous product ideas from early concept to launch, and you can explain the tradeoffs that shaped the product.
- Product judgment under uncertainty. You can generate multiple directions, pick one, explain why, and define what would prove it wrong.
- Research-to-product synthesis. You can point to times when interviews, observations, or usage signals changed the product direction - and explain why.
- AI-native interaction thinking. You are already thinking beyond forms, dashboards, and deterministic flows toward workflows where AI handles work, exposes uncertainty, earns trust, and knows when to ask for human judgment.
- High-speed craft. You can move from sketch to prototype to implementation-ready detail without getting precious.
- Decisive product judgment. You can make a call before everything is certain, explain the reasoning, and keep the work moving.
- Clear cross-functional communication. You can bring engineers, strategists, researchers, and venture leaders into the thinking so decisions do not feel mysterious or disconnected.
If you want polished requirements, a tidy backlog, long cycles, layers of review, and a roadmap handed down from somewhere else, this will feel uncomfortable. We move quickly, with incomplete information, high trust, and a lot of direct collaboration.
And this is not a brand design role.
We hire for strong thinking.
What We Offer
This role comes with the things strong engineers should expect: competitive salary, strong benefits, and meaningful equity in every venture the studio builds, but the real offer is bigger than a comp package alone.
You get a rare zero-to-one seat in an AI-first venture studio built to launch multiple companies, not just maintain one. You get the intensity and authorship of early-stage building, with the structural advantages of a studio: stronger validation, shared resources, repeated shots on goal, and the chance to help build multiple high-impact ventures over time.
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity in every venture the studio builds
- 8 weeks of PTO
- Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance, with 99% of employee premiums paid
- 401(k) with 4% match
- Life insurance
- Paid parental leave
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Monthly parking stipend
- Weekly team lunches
- Dog-friendly office
- High-trust, high-autonomy culture
- The chance to work on multiple high-impact ventures each year
- Your own private office, and collaborative workspaces in one of the coolest office buildings in Tulsa
Pick one project from your portfolio and tell us about a decision you'd make differently if you did it over, and why.
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Principal Devops Engineer Job Market in Oklahoma
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Who's Hiring
- Northrop Grumman41

- CVR ENERGY2
- Halliburton2

- Helmerich & Payne2

- Gitwit1

Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services5
- Energy1
- Education1
- Manufacturing1
- Agriculture & Farming1
What Oklahoma Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in principal devops engineer jobs across Oklahoma.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a directly related technical field
- Eight or more years of devops or site reliability engineering experience, including senior leadership
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, and at least one major cloud platform such as AWS or Azure
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for large enterprise environments
- Strong background in infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automated security compliance
- Experience mentoring devops teams and collaborating with application and security architects on complex projects
Principal Devops Engineer Jobs in Oklahoma: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a principal devops engineer in Oklahoma?
Reaching the principal level in Oklahoma typically requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline followed by progressive experience in devops, platform engineering, or site reliability roles. Oklahoma has no state-issued license for devops engineers, so employers weight vendor certifications heavily, particularly AWS Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer, and Certified Kubernetes Administrator credentials. Candidates who move into principal roles locally often come up through senior engineer or DevOps lead positions at Oklahoma City or Tulsa-based energy, healthcare, or financial services companies.
How much do principal devops engineers make in Oklahoma?
Principal devops engineers in Oklahoma earn a median of about $118,100 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $75,190 for the lowest 10% to over $169,700 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire principal devops engineers in Oklahoma?
Employers hiring principal devops engineers in Oklahoma right now include Northrop Grumman, CVR ENERGY, and Halliburton, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Oklahoma's energy and healthcare sectors, anchored in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, consistently generate the most senior devops openings year-round.
Which Oklahoma cities have the most principal devops engineer jobs?
Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Oklahoma account for the largest share of principal devops engineer openings in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City leads because it anchors the state's largest corporate headquarters, federal agency offices, and health system campuses, while Tulsa's energy industry and growing technology corridor pull significant senior infrastructure hiring independently of the capital.
Are there remote principal devops engineer jobs in Oklahoma?
Yes, and more than most fields. About 50% of principal devops engineer openings tied to Oklahoma are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, reflecting how deeply desk-based the role is by nature. Strategic and architecture-heavy responsibilities at the principal level tend to be the most remote-friendly, while hands-on datacenter or on-premises infrastructure work still requires an in-state presence.
How can I get hired as a principal devops engineer in Oklahoma with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is through a systems administration, cloud support, or junior DevOps role at a large Oklahoma employer, then building toward senior and staff levels over time. Oklahoma City-based organizations like the University of Oklahoma, the state government's Office of Management and Enterprise Services, and large regional healthcare networks hire entry-level infrastructure and cloud operations staff who can develop into devops engineers. Earning an AWS Cloud Practitioner or Azure Fundamentals certification before applying strengthens any junior candidate's profile significantly.
Where can I find and apply to principal devops engineer jobs in Oklahoma?
You can find and apply to principal devops engineer jobs in Oklahoma on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings across Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and the rest of the state. Search the listings to find roles that match your experience level and technical stack, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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