Principal Engineer

Woolworths Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 12,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

20 days annual leave

Premium insurance coverage

Generous bonus

Job summary

Woolworths Group India in Bangalore is seeking a Principal Engineer to own and improve hosting services through code and automation. You will lead end-to-end delivery, define platform architecture across Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, AD/Linux, and VMware, and drive security, reliability, and continuous improvement in a fast-growing environment.

Approximately 15+ years in engineering, deep IaC/Configuration as Code practice, and a track record of leading complex platform migrations and SRE initiatives

Qualifications

• Approximately 15+ years of commercial experience in a dedicated engineering role within complex, enterprise-scale environments.
• Code-driven practices with 10+ years of hands-on experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code or automated scripting to manage platforms.
• Experience leading root-cause analysis (RCA) investigations and implementing permanent engineering fixes to reduce toil.

Responsibilities

• Deliver, operate, and improve hosting services through code and automation across Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments.
• Define platform architecture and reference designs spanning public cloud, container platforms, directory services, and virtualization.
• Establish policy-as-code and guardrails applied consistently across the platform tower.
• Guide adoption of emerging platform technologies and drive cross-domain identity and security architecture.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Identity & AD

Terraform/Bicep

Security engineering

SRE/Incident Mgmt

Agile/DevOps

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

OPA/Gatekeeper

GKE/Kubernetes

VMware

Job description

• Driving endtoend hosting services through code, automation, and leadership.
• Opportunity to be one of our first team members in Woolworths Group India in Bangalore.

Woolworths Group India is partnering exclusively with Zinnov Group to recruit for this position.

About this role

As an established member of a Hosting team, the Principle Engineer independently delivers, operates, and improves the team's services, with a focused emphasis on designing, building, managing, delivering and influencing those services through code and automation. The role takes ownership of well-defined pieces of work end-to-end and contributes to the reliability, security, and continuous improvement of the team's service domain.

What you'll do

• Authoritative, deep technical mastery across the tower's platform domains Azure, GCP/Kubernetes, Windows Active Directory, Linux directory services, and VMware with strong working breadth across the others.
• Ability to set platform architecture, engineering standards, and reference designs spanning public cloud (Azure, GCP), container platforms (GKE/Kubernetes), enterprise directory services (Active Directory and Linux/FreeIPA), and virtualisation (VMware).
• Expert command of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Bicep), configuration-as-code, and the code supply chain that delivers and publishes platform products across these domains.
• Ability to design cross-domain identity, networking, and security architecture, including hybrid identity (Entra ID, AD/Linux cross-realm trusts) and hybrid/multi-cloud connectivity.
• Strong command of policy-as-code and platform guardrails (e.g. Azure Policy, GCP Org Policy, OPA/Gatekeeper) applied consistently across the tower.
• Ability to define product-as-code and automated verification standards so each platform team's products carry their own correctness checks.
• Authority to evaluate and guide adoption of emerging platform, cloud, container, and virtualisation technologies across the tower.
• Recognised expertise evidenced by advanced certifications (e.g. Azure/GCP architect-level, CKA/CKS) and/or equivalent deep enterprise experience.

What you'll bring

• Approximately 15+ years of commercial experience in a dedicated engineering role within complex, enterprise-scale environments.
• Code-Driven Practices: Minimum 10+ years of hands-on experience utilising code-driven methodologies (such as Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, or automated scripting languages) to manage and scale platforms.
• Legacy to Modern Transitions: Direct experience migrating legacy systems or manual operational workflows over to modern, highly automated, and resilient target-state architectures.
• Incident Ownership & SRE Practice: Demonstrated experience leading root-cause analysis (RCA) investigations and implementing permanent engineering fixes to eliminate systemic operational toil.
• Secure Engineering Practice: Proven experience hardening enterprise environments against cyber threats and a track record of successfully driving rapid patch management or vulnerability remediation campaigns in production environments.
• Squad-Based Delivery: Proven experience working within an Agile framework, Product-operating model, or DevOps squad environment, collaborating daily with Product Owners and Scrum Masters to deliver platform features.
• Purpose-Driven Innovation: Above all, we are seeking collaborative innovators and progressive technical thinkers who don't just maintain the status quo, but actively help us engineer better ways to bring a little good to everyone, every day.

What you'll experience

• Be a part of Australias largest retailer
• Constant mentoring and training provided
• Generous performance based bonus
• 20 days annual leave
• A flexible approach to work
• Premium insurance coverage for you and your dependants.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our teams diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

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