Job Details

- Job Title: RD Principal Technologist
- Location: Bangalore
- Employment Type: Regular, full-time, hybrid work arrangement

Job Summary

RD Principal Technologist is a senior technology leader responsible for driving DevOps, cloud, platform engineering, and reliability strategies across the organization. The role requires 10+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, SRE, or related areas, with expertise in CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, DevSecOps, observability, and automation. The individual will architect scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across Azure, AWS, and hybrid environments while leading cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical strategy. Strong leadership, stakeholder management, and communication skills are essential to deliver platform modernization, engineering excellence, and measurable business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the strategic evolution of CONNECT DevOps platform capabilities, partnering with engineering, product management, architecture, and business stakeholders to accelerate delivery of critical programs and enterprise initiatives.
- Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for cloud-native DevOps platforms, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence across the organization.
- Champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Platform Engineering practices to proactively improve system availability, performance, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across software delivery, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, deployment models, observability, and cloud operations.
- Drive the design and implementation of highly scalable, secure,



and compliant CI/CD ecosystems that enable continuous delivery and accelerate product release velocity.
- Drive observability strategies through enterprise monitoring, distributed tracing, telemetry, logging, and AIOps solutions to enhance operational intelligence and predictive incident management.
- Lead the development of advanced automation, self-healing, auto-remediation, and intelligent operational tooling to minimize downtime, improve service reliability, and reduce manual intervention.
- Establish governance and best practices for Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration management, cloud resource optimization, and deployment automation across enterprise-scale environments.
- Influence organizational DevOps maturity by defining metrics, KPIs, and engineering excellence initiatives focused on reliability, deployment efficiency, platform adoption, and operational effectiveness.
- Serve as the technical authority and trusted advisor for DevOps architecture, cloud infrastructure, platform modernization, and software delivery transformation initiatives across CONNECT.

Essential Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with experience leading enterprise-scale initiatives.
- Proven track record in defining and driving DevOps strategy, cloud adoption, platform modernization, and engineering excellence across multiple teams.
- Expert understanding of CI/CD,



Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), cloud-native architectures, containers, Kubernetes, DevSecOps and observability platforms.
- Strong software development and automation expertise with proficiency in languages such as Python, PowerShell, C#, Go, or similar technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to architect scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient solutions across Azure, AWS, and hybrid-cloud environments.
- Solid leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical direction across engineering organizations.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to senior leadership, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, drive strategic technology decisions, and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Desired Skills and Competencies
- Expert knowledge of Azure DevOps, GitHub, Git, CI/CD pipeline design, and software delivery automation.
- Deep expertise in Azure and/or AWS cloud platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CloudFormation), and cloud governance.
- Extensive experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, and modern platform engineering practices.
- Strong experience in observability, monitoring, logging, automated remediation, and reliability engineering.
- Advanced scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent technologies.
- Knowledge of enterprise security, identity management, compliance, and DevSecOps best practices.
- Relevant certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, AWS Professional, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) are highly desirable.
- Experience in Azure Service Fabric is an added advantage.

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