Principal DevOps Engineer - Cloud & Infrastructure Automation

Principal DevOps Engineer - Cloud & Infrastructure Automation

Experience: 12 - 16 Years Exp
Salary : Competitive
Preferred Notice Period: Within 30 Days
Shift: 10:00AM to 7:00PM IST
Opportunity Type: Onsite (Bengaluru)
Placement Type: Permanent

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers' Clients)

Must have skills required :
AWS, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation

onequince.com (One of Uplers' Clients) is Looking for:
Principal DevOps Engineer - Cloud & Infrastructure Automation who is passionate about their work, eager to learn and grow, and who is committed to delivering exceptional results. If you are a team player, with a positive attitude and a desire to make a difference, then we want to hear from you.

Role Overview Description
As the Head of Devops & Infra Engineering (Senior Manager) you will oversee multiple projects under the DevOps & Infrastructure stream. You are expected to manage a team of highly qualified DevOps Engineers who will design, build, and maintain a stable and efficient infrastructure to optimize service delivery across production, QA, and development environments throughout the development lifecycle. As the leader of this stream, you will be tasked with creating its vision and strategy and define and own the KPIs. This role balances technical leadership with people management, focusing on building both reliable systems and high-performing teams.

Responsibilities:
Individual
● Ensure industry best practices in Infrastructure Architecture, Continuous Delivery and Integration, Deployment, Security, 3rd-level Support, and Test Automation.
● Take ownership of all infrastructure and development operations, ensuring work meets user and commercial objectives, is delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
● Create roadmaps, identify delivery milestones, and determine capacity and cost requirements.
● Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and failover strategies to ensure business continuity.
● Strategize, design, and implement highly efficient solutions on AWS Public Cloud for security, resilience, performance, networking, availability, and blue-green deployments.
● Enhance the System Development Life Cycle methodology and associated cross-functional tools to ensure adoption and continuous improvements.
● Stay updated on the global state of commercial cloud and open-source operations.
● Automate repetitive tasks for environment provisioning, monitoring, and incident resolution, reducing manual interventions.

As a leader
● Develop and evangelize excellent engineering and organizational practices.
● Advocate for modern, agile software development practices.
● Handle hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback, and career development.
● Collaborate with other leaders in the organization as part of the leadership team.
● Coordinate with management and external stakeholders or customers.
● Foster a healthy, collaborative engineering culture aligned with company values.
● Set and manage expectations with other engineering and operational teams.

Qualifications:
● The overall experience of 10+ years in Infrastructure with 5+ years of experience in Cloud.
● Extensive knowledge of one or more public clouds (AWS preferred).
● Engineer at heart: We want leaders who like to be in the thick of things, brainstorming about architecture, technology, researching solutions, etc. Be an architect in the room.
● Knowledge of emerging technologies, various platforms, tools, products, and their respective applications.
● Experience with orchestration and containerization tools such as Docker container and Kubernetes.
● Experience in the design, development, and optimization of highly available CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.) to enable fast, safe, and scalable deployments.
● Has championed the adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
● Experience in establishing robust observability frameworks leveraging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog.
● Strong understanding of networking, load balancing, CDN strategies, and storage systems.
● Strong interpersonal and communication skills, for both technical and non-technical audiences.
● Experience with Unix/Linux environments & understanding of databases such as MySQL, DynamoDB and caches like Redis, DAX etc.

Quince provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applications for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran or military status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
If you require reasonable accommodation during any part of the application or interview process, please contact accommodations@onequince.com. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible hiring process for all candidates.

Security Advisory: Beware of Frauds
At Quince, we're dedicated to recruiting top talent who share our drive for innovation. To safeguard candidates, Quince emphasizes legitimate recruitment practices. Initial communication is primarily via official Quince email addresses and LinkedIn; beware of deviations. Personal data and sensitive information will not be solicited during the application phase. Interviews are conducted via phone, in person, or through the approved platforms Google Meets or Zoom—never via messaging apps or other calling services. Offers are merit-based, communicated verbally, and followed up in writing. If personal information is requested to initiate the hiring process, rest assured it will be through secure and protected means.

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About Our Client:
Quince is an affordable luxury brand that sells high-quality fashion and home goods at radically low prices— direct from the factory floor. The company has pioneered a manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) retail model in which factories produce inventory on a near just-in-time basis and ship their goods directly to consumers' doorsteps, cutting out financial and environmental waste. Quince is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and partners with more than 50 top manufacturers around the world. Most recently, Quince completed a $77 million Series B upround raise. The investment was led by Wellington Management with participation from GGV Capital, and continuing participation from Basis Set Ventures, Insight Partners, Lugard Road, and 8VC.

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