Principal Devops Engineer Top b2b saas company only at Staffnixcom · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 10 - 15 years · ₹60L - ₹70L / yr · Bootstrapped · Posted 28 May 2026

Strong Principal DevOps Engineer Profile
Mandatory (Experience 1): 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
Mandatory (Experience 2): 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
Mandatory (Experience 3): 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
Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)
Mandatory (Tech Skills 1 - Cloud & Infra): AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems
Mandatory (Tech Skills 2 - 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
Mandatory (Leadership): 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
Mandatory (Company): Strong B2B SaaS product companies only

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Experience: 8+ Years
Location: Pune
Employment Type: Full-time
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Manager with strong hands-on technical expertise and leadership capabilities to manage cloud infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, deployments, and platform reliability. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Shell Scripting, cloud platforms, Kubernetes, Terraform, and production DevOps environments.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and mentor the DevOps engineering team.
• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Manage scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS / Azure / GCP.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration automation using Ansible.
• Manage Docker and Kubernetes based environments.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Shell/Bash Scripting and Python.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
• Handle production incidents, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and preventive actions.
• Drive infrastructure security, performance, scalability, and cloud cost optimization.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, Security, Architecture, and Delivery teams.
Required Skills & Qualifications
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related roles.
• Strong hands-on experience in Shell / Bash Scripting.
• Experience with AWS / Azure / GCP cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Strong experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with Linux administration, Git, networking, IAM, and cloud security.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.
Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)
• Python scripting experience.
• Cloud / Kubernetes / Terraform certifications.
• Experience with SRE, observability, high-availability architecture, and cloud cost optimization.
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Architecture & Platform
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- Architect optimized Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) for HA, scale, and GPU workload orchestration
Reliability Engineering
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- Lead incident management, RCA, and blameless post-mortems for critical systems
- Partner on infrastructure hardening and compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA)
AI-First Engineering
- Lead AI/ML inference and GPU infrastructure scaling in production
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Leadership & SDLC
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- Evaluate and introduce new tooling and platforms
Key Requirements:
- 4–8 years infrastructure/platform/DevOps/SRE
- Deep expertise in AWS & GCP large-scale production systems
- Advanced Kubernetes (cluster design, multi-tenant ops, resource quotas)
- AI/ML inference or GPU infrastructure scaling (production track record)
- Strong Terraform / equiv. and GitOps practices
- Python, Go, or Bash scripting and automation
- Track record in scale, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Lead incident response and on-call practices
Nice-to-Have
- LLM Gateway architecture and optimization
- Zero-trust networking and advanced security/compliance (SOC 2, HIPAA)
- DevSecOps maturity: SBOM, supply-chain security, policy-as-code
- Open-source contributions or platform-team leadership
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- Build infrastructure and products powering real-world healthcare AI
- Work with AI-native engineering teams using cutting-edge tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot)
- Mission-driven impact — improve patient outcomes and save thousands of staff hours
- High ownership, rapid learning, and significant career upside
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We are looking for a DevOps / Platform Engineer with 3–4 years of experience to help manage AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, and AI-ready platform operations. You will work closely with engineering and AI teams to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable deployments.
Key Responsibilities
- AWS & Infrastructure: Manage core AWS services (EC2, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC) using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK).
- AI/ML Workflows: Support infra for AI applications, model serving, vector databases, and GPU-based workloads.
- CI/CD & Automation: Build and maintain deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
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What we need:
- Basic Python/Bash scripting
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- Problem-solving mindset, eagerness to learn
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- Build portfolio for FAANG-level interviews
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Key Responsibilities
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- Collaborate with Data Engineering and ML pods to build high-performance pipelines and real-time analytics systems.
- Define and implement SLOs, observability standards, and best practices for uptime, latency, and data reliability.
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- Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP),
- Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK).
- Hands-on expertise in data-intensive systems, streaming (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spark Streaming), and distributed architecture design.
- Proven experience building scalable CI/CD pipelines, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK), and infrastructure for data and ML workloads.
- Comfortable being hands-on when needed — reviewing design docs, debugging issues, or optimizing infrastructure.
- Strong system design and problem-solving skills; understands trade-offs between speed, cost, and scalability.
- Passionate about building teams, not just systems — can recruit, mentor, and inspire engineers.
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- Experience managing infra-heavy or data-focused teams.
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- Exposure to ML infrastructure, data governance, or feature stores.
- Prior experience in the OTT / streaming / consumer platform domain is a plus.
- Contributions to open-source infra/data tools or strong engineering community presence.
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* Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
* Strong understanding of Git, branching strategies, release management, and deployment automation.
* Experience implementing DevSecOps practices, including security scanning, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
* Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, production troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
* Proficiency in Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and Bash/Python/PowerShell scripting.
* Proven ability to lead teams, manage priorities, communicate with clients, and drive technical decisions independently.
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* Knowledge of SAST/DAST, SBOM, software supply chain security, and security policy enforcement.
* Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, or Splunk.
* Experience with cloud migrations, hybrid environments, disaster recovery, high availability, and cost optimisation.
* Knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Consul, and API gateways or application gateways.
* Experience with enterprise cloud security, IAM, network security, and infrastructure
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