Management Level

E

Equiniti provides comprehensive solutions to support organizations throughout their corporate lifecycle, including managing shareholder engagement, maintaining stock registers, facilitating ownership transfers, enabling shareholder meetings, paying dividends, supporting IPOs, and administering employee equity plans. We are dedicated to revolutionizing shareholder services by developing digital solutions that facilitate dematerialization for issuers and shareholders.

EQ is a fintech that connects the future of capital, communications, and governance, building trust and confidence in every market we serve. Our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Job Title: Principal Platform Engineer

Reports to: Engineering Manager
Experience: 14+ years (Product / SaaS engineering required)

Role Summary

The Principal Dev Ops Engineer is a senior technical leader responsible for shaping and scaling modern Dev Ops, platform engineering, and release practices across product teams.
The role is hands‑on and highly influential, focused on automation, reliability, security, developer productivity, and AI‑assisted engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Dev Ops & Engineering Excellence

- Own and evolve Dev Ops standards, CI/CD practices, and SDLC guardrails
- Champion automation‑first, quality‑driven engineering




- Act as the Dev Ops technical authority within squads

CI/CD & Platform Engineering

- Design and scale secure, reusable, YAML‑first CI/CD pipelines
- Drive adoption of trunk‑based development, Infrastructure as Code, and progressive delivery (Blue/Green, Canary)
- Build reusable pipeline frameworks and platform accelerators

Release & Reliability Engineering

- Lead release planning, risk assessment, deployment, and rollback strategies
- Ensure systems are observable, resilient, and reversible by design
- Conduct post‑release reviews and embed continuous improvement

AI‑Enabled Dev Ops (Practical AIOps)

- Build custom agents to support development, deployment, and infrastructure pipelines
- Apply AI‑assisted Dev Ops to improve productivity and reliability, including: Intelligent pipeline failure analysis, AI‑assisted code, pipeline, and infrastructure reviews, Automated root‑cause analysis using logs, metrics, and traces
- Drive responsible adoption of AIOps and AI tooling where it delivers measurable value

Cloud & Dev SecOps

- Design and operate secure cloud platforms on Azure (primary) and AWS
- Embed Dev SecOps and policy‑as‑code into CI/CD pipelines
- Apply solid fundamentals in networking, security,



and enterprise environments

Mentorship & Enablement

- Mentor engineers across Development, QA, and Platform teams
- Raise Dev Ops maturity through hands‑on coaching, standards, and guidance

Technologies & Frameworks

- CI/CD: Azure Dev Ops (YAML & Classic), Git Hub Actions, Jenkins
- Cloud & IaC: Azure, AWS, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Puppet
- Containers & Platform: Docker, Microservices, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS desirable)
- Automation: Power Shell (strong), Bash
- AI / AIOps: AI‑assisted Dev Ops tooling, intelligent observability
- Security & Data: Dev SecOps practices, networking, MS SQL, Windows/.NET

Experience & Expectations

- 14+ years in product / SaaS engineering environments
- Proven experience building and scaling Dev Ops capabilities
- Strong systems thinking across speed, reliability, security, and cost
- Ability to influence senior engineers and leaders without formal authority

Success Measures

- Faster, safer, and predictable releases
- Highly automated, AI‑assisted Dev Ops pipelines
- Improved engineering productivity and reliability
- Dev Ops embedded as engineering culture, not just tooling

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

📌 Principal Platform Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Equiniti
📍 Bengaluru