Principal DevOps Engineer

Fluent Health; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluent Health, a dynamic healthcare startup in Mumbai, seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer to own and harden the entire infra stack in a GCP/GKE environment. You will automate, scale, and secure systems handling PHI/PII, while integrating AI into DevOps workflows to drive reliability and cost efficiency.

You’ll work in a brownfield setup with strong emphasis on security, governance, and production-grade tooling, based in Mumbai and onsite.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of hands-on Infra/DevOps experience.
• Deep expertise in GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage).
• Production-grade Terraform and Helm with GitOps approach.
• Expert API Gateway design and IAM/OIDC with zero-trust.
• Experience in regulated industries (HealthTech/FinTech) with SOC2, ISO27001, HIPAA, GDPR, DPDP.
• Ability to audit, harden, and automate existing production systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the entire infra stack, automating and hardening it.
• Apply GitOps and Terraform to reduce toil while improving reliability.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, SOC2, ISO27001.
• Operate production GKE at scale and support web/mobile data delivery via GraphQL.
• Leverage AI tooling to optimize DevOps workflows.

Skills

Infra/DevOps

GCP/GKE

GitOps

Terraform

Helm

IAM/OIDC

Zero-trust

Healthcare data

AI in DevOps

Production hardening

Tools

GKE

Cloud SQL

Pub/Sub

Cloud Storage

Terraform

Helm

Job description

Mumbai, India · Onsite Full-Time 8-12 years

Fluent Health is a dynamic healthcare startup revolutionizing how you manage your healthcare and that of your family. We provide customers with high-quality, personalized options, credible information through trustworthy content, and absolute privacy. To assist us in our growth journey, we are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Principal DevOps Engineer to play a pivotal role in our future success.

Job Description

We're not looking for a manager. We're looking for someone who sees a complex GCP/GKE production environment and thinks "let me get in there". You'll own our entire infra stack - not oversee it, not delegate it - own it. If it breaks at 2am, you'll probably already know why before anyone pages you.

This is a brownfield environment with real complexity: GKE clusters, a self-managed FHIR backend, API gateway/IAM abstractions, Pub/Sub event pipelines, and a growing portfolio of SaaS integrations. Your job is to harden it, automate everything you touch, and build the kind of platform that scales globally without you having to babysit it.

Responsibilities

• You'll inherit a sophisticated architecture and make it yours - auditing what exists, eliminating toil through GitOps and Terraform, and raising the bar on reliability, security, and cost without touching live systems recklessly. You'll build AI into your workflows wherever it gives you leverage. You'll be the person who closes a security gap and writes the Terraform that prevents it from ever happening again.
• Compliance isn't a checkbox here - our platform handles PHI/PII under HIPAA, GDPR, and India's DPDP framework, and you'll be the one who keeps us honest on SOC2 and ISO27001.
• You have 8 -12 years in Infra/DevOps and your GitHub history tells your story - you write code, not tickets. You've operated production GKE at scale, you think in zero-trust, and you've untangled gnarly multi‑vendor SaaS environments before. Experience in HealthTech, FinTech, or any regulated industry handling sensitive data is a strong plus. FHIR knowledge is great; intellectual curiosity to learn it fast is good enough.
• Mumbai‑based. You're the kind of person who'd rather automate a problem permanently out of existence than document a workaround and move on.

Qualifications

• 8 - 12 years in Infrastructure/DevOps with a strong, demonstrable hands‑on coding track record.
• Deep GCP expertise GKE, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage
  Production‑grade Terraform and Helm; GitOps as a first principle, not an afterthought.
• Expert‑level API Gateway design and complex IAM/OIDC implementations, with a zero‑trust mindset.
• Experience operating in regulated environments (HealthTech, FinTech, or similar) with frameworks like SOC2 Type II, ISO27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and India's DPDP
• Proven ability to audit and harden existing production systems — identifying risk, reducing toil, improving resilience without disrupting live operations
• Comfort with event‑driven architectures (Pub/Sub) and serving data to web and mobile clients via GraphQL
• Familiarity with FHIR or willingness to get up to speed quickly on healthcare data standards
• Experience integrating AI tooling into DevOps workflows is a strong plus