Principal Engineer- DevOps (Onsite)

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Engineer with a strong shift-left mindset, dedicated to
solving infrastructure challenges by developing self-serve infrastructure as a platform. This roleemphasizes the creation of infrastructure with built-in security guardrails, ensuring abstraction andautomation at every layer. This role curates and maintains self-serve infrastructure platforms withrobust abstraction and security guardrails which implement automation with embedded securitypractices, moving away from traditional perimeteric approaches. This role looks for excellence inensuring the uptime, performance, and scalability of low-latency, high-traffic applications hosted onmicroservice platforms utilizing tech stack consisting of Containers, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Saltstack,Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, GitLab, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo, Service Mesh,Prometheus, and Loki.

Role & Responsibilities:
Work with the engineering team to define best practices and processes as appropriate tosupport the entire infrastructure lifecycle Plan, Build, Deploy, and Operate such as

automate lifecycle activities self-service, orchestration and provisioning, configuration
management Lead and define application analysis for infrastructure design, capacity planning, monitoringand operational requirements. Provide project leadership and ownership over all aspects of service delivery. Closely partner with development partners to assess the feasibility, complexity and scope ofnew capabilities and solutions Collaborates with the architecture and infrastructure delivery teams to ensure consistentsolution design and integration Prepares technical quality of infrastructure delivery enter/exit gates for design, integrationtesting, deployment and operations Drive continuous improvement including design, service strategy, and standardization ofprocesses and methodologies. Provide architecture leadership across multiple infrastructure teams. Continuous review of the current environment to detect deficiencies, and recommend, planand implement improvement solutions. Provide leadership for strategic planning or complex problem-solving for programs andprojects including the creation, maintenance, and governance of roadmaps. Review SOPs and design documents to ensure that they follow the standards. Develop and enforce security policies, standards, and best practices for cloud andKubernetes environments. Ensure compliance with industry regulations and organizationalsecurity requirements. Implement network security controls, such as firewalls, network security groups, and VirtualPrivate Cloud (VPC) configurations to protect communication between cloud and Kubernetesresources. Protect data at rest and in transit by implementing encryption, data masking, and accesscontrols. Secure data storage solutions, databases, and data pipelines. Ensure the security of containers and containerized applications by using container runtimesecurity tools, vulnerability scanning, and secure image registries. Set up logging and monitoring systems to detect and respond to security incidents.Implement alerting and anomaly detection for both cloud and Kubernetes resources. Ensure that cloud and Kubernetes environments comply with relevant security and privacyregulations (e.g., PCI-DSS..) and industry standards (e.g., CIS benchmarks). Develop and maintain an incident response plan to quickly respond to and recover fromsecurity incidents. Conduct tabletop exercises and drills to test the plan. Implement security automation through infrastructure as code (IaC) and DevSecOpspractices. Use tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes Operators to ensure security isbuilt into the deployment process. Assist with security audits and compliance assessments conducted by internal or externalauditors. Promote a Secure DevOps culture, fostering collaboration between development, operations,and security teams.

Experience & Skills
8+ years of experience designing and implementing cloud infrastructure & softwareapplications. Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Computer Science. Experience designing and deploying high-performance systems with reliable monitoringand logging practices for distributed systems. Effectively work across team boundaries to establish overarching architecture, and provide Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Expertise in Cloud Infrastructure solutions like Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud or AWS Hands-on experience in managing and deploying containerized environments usingDocker and Kubernetes is a must. Hands-on experience in service mesh and advanced traffic routing. Experience with data stores like MongoDB, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, andKafka. Awareness of data platform technologies like Kafka, Spark, airflow, superset, Trino, Pinot,KSQL, Kafka connect etc Experience in designing highly efficient in-house observability platforms using open-sourcetools like Loki, Mimir, Thanos Prometheus and Grafana, Experience in cloud infrastructure security, k8s security and IaC.