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Principal DevOps Engineer - IAC Terraform

HR Works Consultancy
10 - 15 Years
Bangalore

Posted on: 28/05/2026

Job Description

Responsibilities :

Infrastructure at Scale :

- Design and evolve our cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes), ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency across regions and products.

Platform & Developer Experience :

- Build internal tools and platforms that help engineers deploy, monitor, and scale their services independently with minimal friction and maximum confidence.

CI/CD & Release Automation :

Architect secure, fast, and scalable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments using tools like GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.

Reliability Engineering :

Champion observability, SLOs, and incident response practices. Drive a culture of proactive performance monitoring and resilient system design.

Security & Governance :

Integrate DevSecOps practices from policy-as-code and automated audits to secure secrets management and vulnerability scanning.

Mentorship & Thought Leadership :

Guide and mentor DevOps and SRE engineers. Partner closely with platform developers on infrastructure strategy, deployment patterns, and production readiness.

Ideal Candidate :

Strong Principal DevOps Engineer Profile :


- Must have 10+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned) in B2B SAAS companies

- Must have worked in Principal / Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role and demonstrated org-level ownership - setting infra roadmap, defining DevOps charter, or structuring the platform function not just domain-level technical ownership

- Must show evidence of strategic authorship, defined multi-year infra/platform strategy, drove company-wide architectural shifts as an initiator (not implementer), or directly interfaced with VP Eng / CTO / product leadership on infra direction

- Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)

- AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems

- Automation & IaC) : Terraform (must-have), Helm / GitOps, Strong scripting (Python / Go / Bash)

- Mandatory (Tech Skills 4 - Reliability & Observability) : SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), Alerting, on-call, incident management

- Must demonstrate leadership experience in an individual contributor capacity having mentored senior engineers, driven cross-team technical alignment, or anchored org-wide initiatives without having moved into a people management or engineering manager role

- Strong B2B SaaS product companies only

Preferred (Education) :


- B.Tech in Computer Science or related fields

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