Job Summary

NetApp is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership for the NetApp Console SaaS platform, with ownership across cloud architecture, reliability, observability, FinOps, and AI-driven operations.

This role will define the long-term platform strategy, guide architectural decisions, and partner with Engineering, Product, SRE, Cloud Operations, and leadership teams to build scalable, secure, resilient, and cost-effective cloud services

Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities

- Define the technical architecture and roadmap for NetApp Console SaaS.

- Lead the design of cloud-native services that are scalable, secure, highly available, and resilient.

- Own platform reliability, scalability, performance, and operational readiness.

- Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and operational KPIs.

- Drive adoption of AI Agents and AIOps solutions for DevOps, SRE, incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation.





- Promote self-healing infrastructure, predictive operational models, and automation to improve efficiency and reliability.

- Lead observability strategy across applications, infrastructure, and customer-facing services.

- Establish best practices for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and operational analytics using platforms such as Dynatrace, Grafana, ELK Stack, and OpenTelemetry.

- Own cloud capacity planning, forecasting, utilization, and cost optimization strategies.

- Provide visibility into cloud spend, growth trends, governance gaps, and optimization opportunities.

Education

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

- 15+ years of experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, platform engineering, SRE, or cloud operations.

📌 Principal Engineer - Cloud Architecture, AI-Driven Operations & SaaS Platform Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 NetApp
📍 Bengaluru