Principal Engineer Cloud & DevOps

Dear,

Principal Engineer Cloud & DevOps

Work Exp (years): 12-16 yrs

Location: Bangalore

Work Mode Hybrid

Working Hours: 1 PM 10 PM IST

Skill-set: Devops , Cloud Infrastructure, Groovy, Kubernetes

Required Skills for External Applicants:

Mandatory Skills:

1. 12+ years of deep technical experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
2. Proven hands-on expertise in Jenkins pipeline development (Groovy) and CI/CD systems.
3. Extensive experience with Terraform, Ansible, and managing infrastructure as code at scale.
4. Strong Kubernetes experience, including managing clusters, Helm, and autoscaling strategies.
5. Solid understanding of AWS or GCP services, including compute, storage, networking, and IAM.
6. Experience implementing observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
7. Familiarity with container security, deployment strategies (blue/green, canary), and cost optimization.
8. Ability to influence cross-functional teams through technical leadershipnot just through hierarchy.
9. Bonus: Exposure to Infra QA, automated testing pipelines, or AI/LLM-based automation.
10. 2+ Years of experience in leading tech teams

Primary responsibilities:

• Implement cloud infrastructure solutions (AWS/GCP) with a focus on reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Groovy, and Squadron, enabling streamlined deployments and faster release cycles.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, autoscaling, liveness/readiness probes, and namespace policies.
• Drive the adoption of DevOps and SRE principles: observability, monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery.
• Lead technical deep-dives and collaborate with development and QA teams to ensure platform readiness, secure infrastructure, and fast feedback loops.
• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and strengthen deployment and infrastructure operations.
• Contribute to architectural reviews, RFCs, and cloud-native modernization efforts across teams.
• Act as the technical authority on DevOps and platform engineering decisionsenabling high-impact delivery