Principal DevOps Engineer

zimyo

Chennai, India 10 Years Exp Posted 36d ago

Job Description

Cloud Architecture & DevOps Leadership

•     Design and manage secure, scalable, and highly available AWS infrastructure.

•     Define cloud architecture standards, governance, cost optimization, and reliability best practices.

•     Lead cloud modernization and infrastructure transformation initiatives.

•     Establish and enforce DevOps standards, processes, and operational excellence across environments.

•     Mentor and guide DevOps engineers and provide technical leadership across teams.

Infrastructure Automation & CI/CD

•     Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.

•     Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and scaling processes.

•     Architect, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent tools.

•     Improve deployment reliability, release management, and rollback strategies.

Reliability, Security & Observability

•     Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks using tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.

•     Drive SRE practices including incident management, root cause analysis, SLIs, and SLOs.

•     Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

•     Implement security best practices including IAM, KMS, secrets management, and DevSecOps controls.

•     Partner with security teams to ensure compliance and governance requirements are met.

Collaboration & Technical Advisory

•     Translate business and product requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable technical solutions.

•     Work closely with Engineering, QA, Product, and Infrastructure teams to streamline delivery and deployment processes.

•     Act as a trusted advisor on infrastructure, cloud, and deployment strategies.

•     Influence technology and architecture decisions across the organization.

Key Competencies

•     Technical leadership and architecture ownership

•     Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills

•     Stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration

•     Mentoring and team development

•     Automation-first and continuous improvement mindset

Technical Environment

Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, KMS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch)

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD

IaC: Terraform, CloudFormation

Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), ECS

Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch

Operating Systems: RHEL, CentOS, Windows Server

Scripting: Python, Bash, PowerShell

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