Principal DevOps Engineer

Phigital Care; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Phigital Care is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer in Hyderabad, India. You will architect the engineering velocity and lead the development of seamless, automated platforms. Responsibilities include operating Kubernetes clusters, designing deployment strategies, and optimizing infrastructure costs.

The ideal candidate will possess deep Kubernetes expertise, Terraform mastery, and proficiency in automation scripting. Your success will be measured by improved deployment times and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration.
• Expert-level mastery of Terraform.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
• Design and implement zero-downtime deployment patterns.
• Standardize multi-cloud infrastructure as code.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Terraform expertise

Python proficiency

GitHub Enterprise knowledge

AWS experience

DevSecOps practice

Job description

About The Role

As Principal DevOps Engineer, you are the architect of our engineering velocity. You won’t simply manage servers — you will design the foundation on which our entire product ecosystem runs. Your mission is to build a “Golden Path” for developers: a seamless, automated, high-performance platform that turns complex infrastructure into a self-service utility.

You will lead how we ship software, how we scale our global Kubernetes footprint, and how we maintain a world-class security and cost posture — against a weekly release cadence.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform orchestration. Architect and operate production-grade Kubernetes clusters with Terraform and Terragrunt, owning the full lifecycle of our compute environments.
• Release strategy. Design and implement advanced deployment patterns — Blue/Green, Canary, feature flags — to deliver zero-downtime releases across a microservices architecture.
• Infrastructure as Code. Standardize our multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructure. If it isn’t in code, it doesn’t exist — our IaC must be modular, tested, and scalable.
• CI/CD leadership. Optimize GitHub Actions and GitLab CI pipelines to cut build times and tighten feedback loops, and own the code-governance strategy across branch protection and automated compliance.
• Performance & observability. Partner with Performance Engineering to embed automated benchmarking into the pipeline and build comprehensive telemetry with Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/Datadog.
• FinOps & efficiency. Monitor and optimize infrastructure spend, architecting solutions that are both high-performing and cost-efficient.
• Mentorship. Act as a force multiplier — set the technical standards for the DevOps team and guide software engineering squads.

What We’re Looking For

• Orchestration. Deep, under-the-hood expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS) and service meshes (Istio/Linkerd).
• Provisioning. Expert-level mastery of Terraform; experience with Pulumi or Crossplane is a plus.
• Automation. Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for building custom platform tooling.
• CI/CD. Advanced knowledge of GitHub Enterprise — Actions, Runners, and API-driven automation.
• Cloud. Strong experience with AWS (preferred), Azure, or GCP.
• Security. Hands-on DevSecOps practice — secret management with Vault, image scanning, and policy enforcement via OPA/Kyverno.

What Success Looks Like

Month 1: You’ve audited our Terraform modules and set a roadmap for a unified, multi-region Kubernetes deployment strategy.

Month 3: You’ve cut time-to-production for new services by 40% through standardized CI/CD templates and self-service infra provisioning.

Month 6: The platform is a competitive advantage: developers deploy with confidence, infrastructure costs are optimized, and reliability (SLAs) is at an all-time high.