Principal DevSecOps

Righttalentrightnow; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Righttalentrightnow is hiring a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to lead the design and implementation of secure cloud solutions. The role involves coordinating with various teams to deploy and maintain applications while ensuring the efficiency and security of infrastructure. Candidates should have extensive experience in cloud technologies, DevSecOps practices, and strong project management skills. The company offers a dynamic environment focused on innovation and quality. Position based in Hyderabad, India.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in IT or related fields.
• Expert knowledge of DevOps and cloud concepts.
• Strong skills in systems and cloud administration.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy for cloud infrastructure design.
• Provide guidance for escalated DevSecOps issues.
• Design CI/CD best practices and ensure standards alignment.

Skills

DevOps expertise

Cloud technologies

Containerization

CI/CD toolchains

Automation tools

Leadership skills

Troubleshooting

Project management

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Jira

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position/Title: Principal DevSecOps Engineer

Department: Development

Location: Pune

Work Hours: 2pm to 11pm

Position Overview: This role will focus on leading efforts for designing and building well-architected solutions for deploying, securing, and maintaining new and existing applications, services, and infrastructure for managed appliances and cloud platforms. The incumbent coordinates closely with other functional teams to ensure smooth, efficient, and predictable delivery of engineering output. The person should be familiar with cloud and containerization technologies, system architectures, CI/CD pipeline toolchains, automation tools, and possess strong leadership to manage large, complex projects, supporting engineering teams across the organization to produce resilient cloud and containerized solutions.

Position held with Fortra Global Capability Center, a partnership between Fortra and Aeries Technology.

KEY DUTIES

• Lead strategy discussions, decisions, and implementation for cloud infrastructure design.
• Determine ideal approaches for cloud and containerized solutions custom tailored for the services and applications.
• Provide expert level analysis and resolution guidance for escalated DevSecOps issues.
• Participate in 24/7 support as part of an on‑call rotation team that responds to after‑hours infrastructure alerts.
• Continuously improve the efficacy of logging, monitoring, and alerting for services, applications, and infrastructure to achieve high levels of performance, scalability, availability, and reliability.
• Work with stakeholders to design and refine critical cloud policies related to Security, Service Level Agreements, Disaster Recovery, Shared Responsibility, Acceptable Use, Data Retention, and other associated concerns.
• Design and document software engineering and CI/CD best practices; lead standards alignment across multiple engineering teams.
• Coordinate and plan ongoing operations with other team members.
• Work without supervision on complex projects with extensive latitude for independent judgment.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to a broad range of stakeholders.
• Act as a technical resource and mentor to less experienced peers.
• Actively participate in and occasionally lead Agile ceremonies.
• Other duties as assigned.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or similar IT discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Expert knowledge of DevOps, CloudOps, and/or containerization concepts and tooling.
• Strong demonstrated systems, cloud, and container administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Extensive knowledge of cloud and/or containerization toolchains with ability to implement best practices.
• Extensive knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and software engineering tooling including Jenkins or other build server tooling, Git, Jira, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Deep and broad knowledge of security, networking, and identity management concepts.
• Proven leadership as a project manager or subject matter expert.
• Coordinate project activities of co‑located and remote team members.
• Truly superb verbal and written communication skills.
• Presentation and mentoring skills.
• Typically requires at least 15 years of experience.