Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to drive platform engineering and modern infrastructure initiatives across on-premises and cloud environments.
This is an individual contributor role requiring deep hands-on expertise in bare-metal Kubernetes environments, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), CI/CD automation, and modern DevOps tooling. The role also includes ownership of CI/CD platform evolution, Jenkins lifecycle management, platform reliability, tool upgrades, and disaster recovery strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain Kubernetes clusters across bare-metal (kubeadm, Rancher) and Azure (AKS)
- Design scalable, resilient platform infrastructure
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins (Groovy) and GitHub Actions
- Own Jenkins lifecycle: upgrades, patching, plugin management, migration/modernization
- Manage GitHub/GitHub Cloud repositories and workflows
- Ensure timely upgrades of DevOps tools, platforms, and dependencies
- Define and implement disaster recovery (DR), backup, and high availability strategies




- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for provisioning and configuration
- Ensure security, reliability, and performance of systems
- Troubleshoot complex distributed system and networking issues
- Collaborate with engineering teams for cloud-native adoption
- Drive DevOps best practices and platform standardization
Required Skills & Experience
Kubernetes:
- Strong experience with bare-metal Kubernetes (kubeadm, Rancher)
- Hands-on AKS expertise
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and lifecycle

CI/CD & Automation:
- Expert in Jenkins (pipelines, Groovy)
- Experience with Jenkins upgrades, migrations, plugin dependency management
- Strong GitHub Actions experience
- GitHub / GitHub Cloud expertise

Infrastructure:
- Robust Azure knowledge
- Experience with hybrid environments
- Strong Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/ARM/Bicep or equivalent)

Networking:
- Kubernete

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