Principal DevOps Developer

Responsibilities:

• Lead SRE initiatives across all technology stacks.
• Own the reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems.
• Drive automation, observability, and incident response maturity.
• Act as a technical authority across DevOps domains.
• Architect and manage multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) with IaC (Terraform, Helm).
• Lead Kubernetes deployments across multi-cluster environments; optimize for scale and resilience.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub Actions; enforce GitOps workflows.
• Implement and manage observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog.
• Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes; reduce MTTR.
• Enforce SRE principles: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, chaos engineering.
• Integrate DevSecOps practices: IAM, RBAC, secrets management, vulnerability scanning.
• Enable MLOps workflows for AI/ML model deployment and lifecycle management.
• Mentor junior SREs and DevOps engineers; establish technical standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and security teams to align reliability goals.
• Own disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, and environment consistency.
• Lead cost optimization and performance tuning across infrastructure layers.

Requirements:

• 10+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm.
• Strong proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, Go).
• Proven experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated leadership in scaling systems and mentoring teams.
• Strategic thinking across infrastructure and reliability domains.
• Technical leadership with cross-functional influence.
• High accountability and ownership of production systems.
• Clear, concise communication across global teams.
• Decision-making under pressure during incidents.
• Ability to mentor and elevate team capabilities.
• Bias for automation and continuous improvement.
• Strong stakeholder management and alignment with business goals.

Skills

devops, kubernetes, platform, sre, terraform