Principal Engineer Software Engineering XIII

Next Generation Monitoring (NGM) Platform —  Vertiv IT Systems  | Pune, Maharashtra

Experience: 8–12 Years  • Band: Senior Engineer (IC)  •  Department: Software Engineering — IT Systems  • Reports To: Engineering Manager

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to own the engineering delivery infrastructure — CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, multi-deployment packaging, release management, security automation, and platform observability. The engineer will support on-premises, cloud-native (AWS/GCP/Azure), hybrid edge-cloud, and air-gapped deployment targets across a multi-year, multi-release product roadmap.

•  Design, build, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines for all microservices with independent deployment cycles

•  Implement multi-stage pipelines: build → test → security scan → package → deploy across all environments

•  Integrate automated unit, integration, and system-level tests; manage all pipeline configuration as code

•  Configure branch-based promotion strategies (dev → staging → production)

•  Manage containerized deployments via Docker and Kubernetes on Linux and Windows Server

•  Provision and manage Kubernetes clusters (dev, staging, production) with horizontal pod autoscaling

•  Configure service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) for inter-service mTLS; manage container image registry lifecycle

•  Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or Ansible for cloud and on-premises resources

•  Build on-premises Docker/Kubernetes deployment automation for Linux and Windows Server targets

•  Develop cloud-native automation for AWS, GCP, and Azure (EKS/GKE/AKS) including multi-region config

•  Engineer hybrid edge-cloud pipelines; package air-gapped artefact bundles for offline/classified environments

•  Implement zero-downtime rolling updates, blue-green deployments, and automated rollback strategies

•  Orchestrate software releases across the multi-release product roadmap; coordinate cross-functional readiness

•  Manage versioning, release tagging, changelog generation, and artefact storage across all microservices

•  Produce deployment runbooks, release notes, and rollback procedures for each release milestone

•  Integrate SAST, DAST, container image scanning (Trivy/Snyk/Clair), and dependency vulnerability checks

•  Automate SBOM generation, open-source license compliance, and software supply chain tracking

•  Configure secrets management (HashiCorp Vault), TLS certificate automation, and PKI for microservices

•  Implement pipeline controls for SOC 2, EU Cyber Resilience Act, and FedRAMP readiness

•  Deploy centralized logging (ELK/Loki), metrics (Prometheus/Grafana), and distributed tracing (Jaeger)

•  Configure Kubernetes cluster monitoring, pod health dashboards, and alerting/on-call integration

•  Drive proactive reliability engineering to meet high-availability platform SLA targets

•  Create Bash/Python automation for infrastructure operations, environment provisioning, and self-healing

•  Interface with software architects, developers, QA, and product management on delivery and planning

•  Guide development teams on DevOps best practices, containerization patterns, and pipeline design

•  Cloud certifications: AWS DevOps Engineer, Google Professional DevOps, or Azure DevOps Expert

•  CKA/CKAD, Kubernetes operator development, and service mesh deep expertise

•  GitOps tooling: ArgoCD or Flux for continuous delivery

•  SRE practices: error budget management, chaos engineering (LitmusChaos, Chaos Monkey)

•  Time-series DB operations: InfluxDB or TimescaleDB backup, scaling, schema migration

•  Message broker management: Kafka or NATS cluster operations and monitoring

•  Edge node provisioning, remote management, and telemetry collection from distributed agents

•  Internal Developer Platform (IDP) tooling and developer self-service workflows

•  Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or related field

•  Minimum 8 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering

•  5+ years of Linux system administration in production environments (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS)

•  5+ years of Docker and Kubernetes container orchestration in production

•  5+ years of CI/CD pipeline management (GitLab CI preferred)

•  5+ years of cloud platform deployments: AWS, GCP, or Azure

•  Proven track record delivering end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for microservices architectures

•  Strong background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent)

•  Experience integrating security and compliance tooling into DevOps workflows

•  Strong problem-solving and root-cause analysis in complex distributed systems

•  Clear written and verbal communication for cross-functional engineering collaboration

•  Proactive ownership mindset with a strong bias toward automation over manual operations

•  Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced agile product development environment

•  Team collaboration and informal DevOps culture leadership; comfort with ambiguity

Education: B.E. / B.Tech / M.E. / M.Tech in Computer Science, IT, or related field.  Cloud/DevOps certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS/GCP/Azure) are a plus.