Principal Infrastructure Engineer - DevOps
Description
Key Responsibilities :
- Design and build highly scalable infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS).
- Architect multi-region, multi-account cloud environments for high availability and disaster recovery.
- Implement zero-trust security using identity-based access, IAM best practices, HashiCorp Vault, and Open Policy Agent (OPA).
- Build reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules using Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments through GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
- Manage the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters, databases, and cloud infrastructure, including upgrades, scaling, migrations, and patch management.
- Design secure networking across VPCs, regions, and cloud accounts.
- Develop region-agnostic infrastructure patterns and automate infrastructure bootstrap processes.
- Build and enhance observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, and distributed tracing.
- Improve infrastructure reliability through monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational excellence.
- Establish governance standards for resource tagging, cost optimization, security, and compliance.
- Develop self-service infrastructure platforms to improve developer productivity.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to standardize cloud infrastructure and platform best practices.
Required Qualifications :
- 10+ years of software engineering or infrastructure engineering experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.
Strong expertise in :
1. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2. Kubernetes (EKS)
3. Terraform and/or Pulumi
4. Infrastructure Automation
Strong understanding of :
1. VPCs, networking, DNS, routing, and cloud connectivity
2. IAM, identity management, and access control
3. High availability and distributed systems
Experience with :
1. Infrastructure automation
2. CI/CD pipelines
3. Production-scale cloud platforms
4. Programming experience in Python, Go, or Bash.