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Principal Engineer, DevOps

Plane· Engineering
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IndiaFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Principal DevOps Engineer responsible for owning the infrastructure and operational architecture across cloud, sovereign, customer-managed, self-hosted, and air-gapped environments. Lead build, deploy, secure, observe, and operate Plane across Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, databases, incident response, compliance, and cost. Collaborate with engineering teams to enable reliable, secure, and automated deployment and operations, including AI workloads and open-weight models.

Responsibilities

  • Own and operate high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software across cloud and self-hosted deployments.
  • Own and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS.
  • Design and automate infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, secrets management, AMIs, and one-click deployments across AWS, DigitalOcean, Heroku, and other platforms.
  • Set up processes to improve visibility across cloud infrastructure. Maintain incident management, disaster recovery, database migrations, and production reliability.
  • Define and strengthen infrastructure security, vulnerability management, SAST, compliance, data governance, and security standards across the organisation.
  • Drive infrastructure performance and cost optimization while improving deployment speed, reliability, and developer experience.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, and you have owned the systems you built in production.
  • Experience running AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker in production and managing secrets.
  • Experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible, and shipping changes through CI/CD and GitOps with Argo CD.
  • Experience shipping and supporting enterprise software across multiple clouds, self-hosted setups, and air-gapped (fully offline) environments.
  • Experience managing production Postgres and Redis and moving them between clusters without data loss.
  • Proficiency in Python and Bash.
  • Solid understanding of networking, reverse proxies, monitoring, and infrastructure security, with ability to debug in production.

Skills

Required:DevOps and SREAWSKubernetesDockerTerraformAnsibleGitOpsArgo CDPythonBash

Benefits

  • (Not explicitly listed in the description)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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