Principal DevOps Engineer (PeopleFluent)

Team: IT

Location: India

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

The Principal DevOps Engineer will own the technical evolution, automation, reliability, and operational effectiveness of the hosting infrastructure. Key responsibilities include:

• Own and maintain PeopleFluent hosting pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Define the technical vision and architecture for hosting infrastructure across compute, networking, and platform services.
• Ensure infrastructure architecture supports long-term scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Proactively identify opportunities to optimize infrastructure performance, capacity, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Take a hands-on role in scaling, securing, and improving hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Design and operate infrastructure spanning on-premises data centers and AWS.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to understand requirements and translate them into robust infrastructure solutions.
• Evaluate technical options and clearly communicate architecture decisions, constraints, and trade-offs.
• Lead complex infrastructure projects from planning and design through implementation and operational adoption.
• Establish and maintain structured processes for infrastructure changes, releases, deployments, and configuration management.
• Use Git-based workflows, including branching, pull requests, and code reviews, to govern infrastructure changes.
• Maintain and improve monitoring and observability capabilities across infrastructure and applications.
• Mentor engineers and share technical expertise across hosting and infrastructure domains.
• Contribute to the development of scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-effective hosting solutions.

Requirements

The role requires extensive infrastructure engineering experience, strong architectural judgment, and deep hands-on knowledge across cloud, Linux, networking, virtualization, automation, and observability. Candidates should demonstrate:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of professional industry experience.
• Strong experience with Enterprise Linux, including SELinux policies, standard configurations, enforcement, and headless server administration.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including DHCP, subnetting, VLANs, network segmentation, and related concepts.
• Hands-on experience with virtualization platforms such as Proxmox and/or VMware vSphere.
• Experience with advanced virtualization cluster configuration, virtual switches, VLANs, and network segmentation.
• Experience owning and administering observability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong Git and shell scripting skills.
• Extensive hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, and Route 53.
• Experience provisioning, orchestrating, and administering infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
• Experience implementing release and deployment automation with Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure management.
• Experience managing configuration changes through structured change-control processes.
• Familiarity with Git-based development and infrastructure workflows, including branching, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with a proactive, self-starting approach.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and product teams.
• Strong communication skills, particularly when explaining complex technical decisions and trade-offs.
• Ability to operate at both strategic architectural and hands-on engineering levels.

Additional experience that would be valuable includes:

• Data center operations, including automated network-switch configuration.
• Automation of basic firewall rules and network security controls.
• Database administration across Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and/or Microsoft SQL.
• Experience with Elasticsearch and Kafka.
• Experience working in Agile and Scrum environments.
• Background in web-based or SaaS environments.
• Experience working in startup or fast-paced technology environments.

Benefits

• Full-time position.
• Fully remote role for candidates based in India.
• Senior-level ownership of hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises data centers and AWS.
• Opportunity to shape the architecture and technical direction of enterprise hosting infrastructure.
• Hands-on exposure to AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, virtualization, and observability technologies.
• Opportunity to work across compute, networking, platform services, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Ability to lead complex infrastructure initiatives from design through implementation.
• Opportunity to contribute to modern, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective hosting solutions.
• Collaboration with engineering and product teams in a technically driven environment.
• Opportunity to mentor other engineers and develop subject matter expertise across infrastructure domains.