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/GCP/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

• Bachelors 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