Principal DevOps Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes

Job Description :Role & Responsibilities :Infrastructure at Scale :- Design and evolve our cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes), ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency across regions and products.Platform & Developer Experience :- Build internal tools and platforms that help engineers deploy, monitor, and scale their services independently with minimal friction and maximum confidence.CI/CD & Release Automation :- Architect secure, fast, and scalable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments using tools like GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.Reliability Engineering :- Champion observability, SLOs, and incident response practices. Drive a culture of proactive performance monitoring and resilient system design.Security & Governance :- Integrate DevSecOps practices from policy-as-code and automated audits to secure secrets management and vulnerability scanning.Mentorship & Thought Leadership :- Guide and mentor DevOps and SRE engineers. Partner closely with platform developers on infrastructure strategy, deployment patterns, and production readiness.Ideal Candidate :Mandatory Experience :- Must have 10+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned) in B2B SAAS companies- Must have worked in Principal / Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role and demonstrated org level ownership - setting infra roadmap, defining DevOps charter, or structuring the platform function not just domain-level technical ownership- Must show evidence of strategic authorship, defined multi-year infra/platform strategy, drove company-wide architectural shifts as an initiator (not implementer), or directly interfaced with VP Eng / CTO / product leadership on infra direction- Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)Mandatory Tech Skills :- Cloud & Infra : AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems- Automation & IaC : Terraform (must-have), Helm / GitOps, Strong scripting (Python / Go / Bash)- Reliability & Observability : SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), Alerting, on-call, incident management- Mandatory (Leadership) : Must demonstrate leadership experience in an individual contributor capacity having mentored senior engineers, driven cross-team technical alignment, or anchored org-wide initiatives without having moved into a people management or engineering manager role- Mandatory (Company) : Strong B2B SaaS product companies only- Preferred (Education) : B.Tech in Computer Science or related fields (ref:hirist.tech)