Principle DevOps Engineer

Verisk; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Verisk in Hyderabad (India) seeks a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead release infrastructure and platform enablement for a large microservices ecosystem on AWS cloud-native architecture.

You will enable self-service infrastructure via platform engineering, guiding teams to author their own pipelines while upholding guardrails and best practices. The role emphasizes mentorship, observability, and scalable automation.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in DevOps/Platform Engineering with leadership in release infrastructure.
• Minimum 3+ years in GitHub Enterprise for enterprise workflows.
• 2+ years programming for automation and tooling.
• 3+ years AWS cloud experience and platform automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement release infrastructure enabling rapid, reliable deployments across environments and regions.
• Build enterprise-grade GitHub CI/CD pipelines supporting independent microservice deployments with canary/blue-green strategies.
• Establish automated release orchestration with dependency management and rollback capabilities.
• Create pipeline-as-code solutions enabling teams to define and version their deployment pipelines.
• Build observability-driven deployment systems with automated rollback based on SLI/SLOs.
• Architect Terraform automation for consistent environment provisioning and management.
• Implement policy-as-code and compliance automation to ensure infrastructure meets standards.
• Design DevOps metrics frameworks measuring deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR (DORA).
• Provide mentorship and training to teams adopting platform engineering and IaC practices.
• Champion DevOps culture transformation and engineering best practices across the org.

Skills

DevOps leadership

AWS Cloud

GitHub Enterprise

CI/CD pipelines

Platform engineering

Mentorship

DevOps metrics

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud architecture

backups and rollback

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Azure DevOps

Backstage

Flyway

Terraform

Job description

Job Description

The Principal DevOps Engineer will serve as a technical leader and platform enablement architect responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing release infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and environment automation for our flagship product built on AWS cloud-native architecture with extensive microservices ecosystem. This role focuses on facilitating team self-service capabilities through infrastructure platform engineering, enabling development teams to author their own infrastructure while following established best practices and guardrails.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement sophisticated release infrastructure enabling rapid, reliable deployments across multiple environments and regions
• Build enterprise-grade GitHub CI/CD pipelines supporting independent microservice deployments with advanced deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, progressive rollouts)
• Establish automated release orchestration across the microservices ecosystem with dependency management and rollback capabilities
• Create pipeline-as-code solutions enabling teams to define, version, and manage their own deployment pipelines
• Build observability-driven deployment systems with automated rollback triggers based on SLI/SLO violations
• Architect and implement comprehensive Terraform automation for consistent environment provisioning and management
• Implement policy-as-code and compliance automation to ensure infrastructure authored by teams meets organizational standards
• Design and implement comprehensive DevOps metrics frameworks measuring deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (DORA metrics)
• Provide technical mentorship and training to help teams adopt platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code practices
• Champion DevOps culture transformation and establish engineering best practices across the development organization

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in DevOps/Platform Engineering with 5+ years leading release infrastructure and platform enablement initiatives
• Minimum 3+ years of hands‑on experience with GitHub Enterprise for enterprise-scale development workflows and repository management.
• At least 2 years of programming experience in relevant languages to facilitate automation, scripting, and platform development.
• At least 3+ years of experience with AWS Cloud.
• Proven expertise in building self‑service infrastructure platforms that enable developer autonomy while maintaining operational excellence.
• Track record of technical mentorship and guiding engineering teams through DevOps transformation.
• Strong experience building and enforcing DevOps metrics and KPIs to drive organizational improvement and platform optimization
• Expert‑level experience designing enterprise CI/CD platforms supporting large‑scale microservices ecosystems
• Hands‑on experience with GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps for enterprise‑scale development workflows
• Expert‑level Terraform proficiency for building reusable infrastructure modules, state management, and automation at scale
• Experience with developer platform tools like Backstage for service catalogs and developer portals (strong plus)
• Experience with Flyway for database migration and schema version control
• Proven experience implementing DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) and other DevOps performance indicators.
• Strong communication skills for technical leadership and cross‑functional collaboration
• Proven ability to champion DevOps culture transformation and establish engineering best practices

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