Job Title

Principal DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Application Infrastructure Architect

8-10+ Years (Architect Level)

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Principal DevOps, SRE & Application Infrastructure Architect to design, build, and manage highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, GitOps, CI/CD, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Observability, Cloud Infrastructure, Database Operations, and Application Infrastructure Architecture.

The candidate will lead infrastructure modernization, production reliability, DevOps automation, cloud-native platform engineering, disaster recovery, and application support across enterprise-scale environments.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise Kubernetes (AKS) platforms.
• Build and optimize containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement GitOps deployment strategies using ArgoCD and Helm.
• Design secure cloud infrastructure following Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) best practices.
• Manage ingress controllers, load balancers, SSL/TLS, and mTLS certificate lifecycle.
• Architect highly available cloud-native platforms across Azure and multi-cloud environments.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate deployments using GitOps methodologies.
• Develop automation using Shell and Python scripting.
• Manage database schema migrations using Flyway.
• Improve deployment reliability and release automation.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Define and monitor SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Ensure production availability, scalability, and performance.
• Lead P0/P1 incident response, troubleshooting, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Manage on-call rotations and operational excellence.
• Implement proactive monitoring and alerting strategies.

Observability

• Build enterprise observability platforms using:
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Splunk
• Design logging, tracing, metrics collection, and monitoring frameworks.

Application Infrastructure

• Troubleshoot Java applications in distributed environments.
• Support REST APIs, gRPC services, HTTP/JSON integrations.
• Manage messaging systems and distributed caching.
• Optimize cloud-native application performance.

Database & Data Platform

• Design and maintain high-availability databases including:
  • Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cassandra
  • Couchbase
  • Redis
  • CockroachDB
• Manage Oracle GoldenGate replication.
• Implement disaster recovery, failover, replication, backup, and recovery strategies.
• Perform SQL/PL-SQL development and performance tuning.

Security & Governance

• Implement Infrastructure Security best practices.
• Manage IAM roles and privilege management.
• Automate password rotation.
• Collaborate with Security, Networking, and Application teams.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards.

Required Technical Skills

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Kubernetes (AKS)
• Docker
• Helm
• ArgoCD
• GitOps
• CI/CD
• Flyway

Cloud Platforms

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Multi-cloud (AWS/Google Cloud Platform/AliCloud preferred)

Scripting

• Shell Scripting
• Python
• Linux Administration
• Unix

Observability

• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Splunk

Databases

• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Cassandra
• Couchbase
• Redis
• CockroachDB

Database Technologies

• SQL
• PL/SQL
• Oracle GoldenGate
• Database Replication
• Performance Tuning

Application Technologies

• Java
• REST APIs
• gRPC
• HTTP
• JSON
• Elasticsearch
• Solr
• SNS
• SQS

Infrastructure

• Load Balancers
• Ingress Controllers
• SSL
• TLS
• mTLS
• Disaster Recovery
• High Availability

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8-10+ years of DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Experience designing enterprise cloud-native platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and GitOps.
• Hands-on production support and incident management experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Certification
• Kubernetes Certification (CKA/CKAD)
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification
• Azure DevOps Certification
• Experience with AliCloud
• Experience in Financial Services or enterprise-scale production environments