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Principal DevOps Engineer (PeopleFluent) India, Remote
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IndiaremotePosted 1 day ago
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Key highlights
- 10+ years of industry experience required
- No salary or compensation figures stated
- No specific benefits or perks listed
- Requires both AWS and on-premises/hybrid infrastructure experience
- Subject Matter Expert in at least one infrastructure domain (virtualization, cloud architecture, or observability)
- Hands-on role combining architecture, automation, and operational ownership
Role overview
This is a senior infrastructure role requiring 10+ years of experience, responsible for owning the design, automation, and operation of hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises datacenters and AWS. The position sets technical direction for compute, networking, and platform services while driving improvements in scalability, security, and reliability. The role also involves leading advanced projects end to end, documenting and governing changes through structured processes, mentoring others across hosting, and serving as a Subject Matter Expert in one or more infrastructure domains such as virtualization, cloud architecture, or observability.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain Peoplefluent Hosting pipeline and automation infrastructure.
- Own the technical vision and architecture for the hosting infrastructure, setting direction across compute, networking, and platform services to ensure design decisions align with long-term scalability, security, and maintainability goals.
- Be a self-starter — proactively identify infrastructure optimization opportunities.
- Be hands-on in scaling and securing the company's infrastructure.
- Collaborate across engineering and product teams to define requirements.
- Communicate trade-offs of technical design.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of industry experience.
- Experience with Enterprise Linux (SELinux policies, standard configuration and enforcement, headless server management, etc.).
- Strong network fundamentals (DHCP, subnetting).
- Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., Proxmox, vSphere), including advanced cluster configuration and networking such as VLANs, virtual switches, and network segmentation.
- Experience in owning and administering monitoring/observability tools — Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.
- Experience in Git, shell scripting.
- Strong knowledge and experience with AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, Route53, etc.
- Hands-on experience with provisioning/orchestration/administration: Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes.
- Experience in release and deploy automation using Jenkins.
- Experience managing configuration changes through a structured change control process, including but not limited to Git-based workflows such as branching, pull requests, and code review.
Nice to have
- Experience in datacenter operations — e.g., network switch automated configuration.
- Experience in automating basic firewall rules.
- Database administration (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL).
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Kafka.
- Experience working in an Agile and Scrum environment.
- Web-based/SaaS company background.
- Startup experience.
Additional details
- Join us in reshaping how hosting is built, and help create industry-leading solutions that are scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.
- We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.