Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Principal Engineer - Hosting Services

Experience: 15yrs+

Job Location: Gurgaon

Job Description

Key responsibilities:

● Responsible for providing engineering and operational leadership across systems

engineering, cloud engineering and other key infrastructure technologies.

● Responsible for driving engineering excellence with a focus on automation and

utilising cloud native technologies to modernise infrastructure.

● Building and developing the India engineering and operations capabilities alongside

global leads.

● Focused on evolving our architecture for scalability, resilience, security and cost

optimisation.

● Collaborating across infrastructure towers, solution engineering and business towers

to challenge existing architectures, ways of working and tooling to modernise and

simplify our technology estate.

Key Experience

● Experience building and leading infrastructure engineering teams across

infrastructure (focus on Systems Engineering and Cloud)

● min 20 years experience engineering and architecting infrastructure across different

types of application stacks from monolith to cloud native solutions

● Working and influencing across cross functional teams to deliver outcomes

● Experience working with C-level executives to shape and execute business cases,

understanding benefits and deliver outcomes

● Experience driving major cloud migration programmes and major application

modernisation programmes with the ability to stay hands on and help drive the

technical programme elements.

● Running and delivering key technical platforms to support critical infrastructure

Key Technical skills:

● Strong expertise in Systems Engineering (Linux, Windows, Storage)

● Strong expertise in public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-premises infrastructure

at an enterprise level

● Proficient in automation technologies and concepts surrounding distributed systems,

including auto-scaling, resiliency, and performance.

● Strong understanding of fundamental infrastructure technologies including

networking, databases, server

● Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools (e.g IaC)

● Experience with cloud-native technologies (serverless, Kubernetes)

● Experience in Finops / Cloud Optimisation

Key soft skills:

● Excellent leadership and communication skills

● Ability to build teams and lead large teams

● Ability to work across multiple stakeholders in a matrix environment

● Ability to collaborate effectively and influence cross functional teams

● Passion for staying current with emerging technologies

● Understanding and experience of working within financial markets and operating critical infrastructure (preferred).