Principal DevOps Engineer (PeopleFluent) India, Remote

Learning Technologies Group PLC; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Learning Technologies Group PLC is seeking a senior infrastructure leader in the United States to own and drive the design, automation and operation of hybrid infrastructure spanning on‑premises and AWS. You will set technical direction for compute, networking and platform services, scale and secure systems, and mentor others across hosting.

You will lead end‑to‑end projects, govern changes, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, reliable hosting solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field.
• 10+ years of industry experience in infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain hosting pipeline and automation infrastructure.
• Own the technical vision and architecture for hosting infrastructure across compute, networking, and platform services.
• Proactively identify infra optimization opportunities.
• Be hands-on in scaling and securing the company’s infrastructure.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to define requirements.
• Communicate trade-offs of technical design.

Skills

GIT

Shell scripting

AWS

Proxmox

vSphere

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Networking basics

Linux administration

Change control

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Proxmox

vSphere

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

Job Overview:

You have 10+ years of experience and own the design, automation, and operation of hybrid infrastructure spanning on-premises datacenters and AWS. You set technical direction for compute, networking, and platform services, and drive improvements in scalability, security, and reliability. You lead advanced projects end to end, document and govern changes through structured processes, and mentor others across hosting. You are a Subject Matter Expert in one or more infrastructure domains, such as virtualization, cloud architecture, or observability.

Responsibilities:

• Own and maintain Peoplefluent Hosting pipeline and automation infrastructure.
• Own the technical vision and architecture for the hosting infrastructure, setting direction across compute, networking, and platform services to ensure design decisions align with long-term scalability, security, and maintainability goals.
• Be a self starter - proactively identify the infra optimization opportunities.
• Be hands‑on in scaling and securing the company’s infrastructure.
• Collaborate across engineering and product teams to define requirements
• Communicate trade‑offs of technical design.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of industry experience
• Experience with Enterprise Linux(selinux policies, standard configuration and enforcement, headless server management etc)
• Strong network fundamentals(dhcp, subnetting)
• Experience with virtualization platforms (e.g., Proxmox, vSphere), including advanced cluster configuration and networking such as VLANs, virtual switches, and network segmentation.
• Experience in owning and administering monitoring/observability tools - Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.
• Experience in git, shell scripting
• Strong knowledge and experience with AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, Route53 etc..
• Hands on experience with the provisioning/orchestration/Administration: Terraform, ansible, kubernetes
• Experience in release and deploy automation using Jenkins
• Experience managing configuration changes through a structured change control process, including but not limited to Git-based workflows such as branching, pull requests, and code review.

Bonus points:

• Experience in datacenter operations - e.g., network switches automated configuration.
• Experience in automating basic firewall rules
• Database administration(Oracle, MySql, PostgreSql, Microsoft SQL)
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Kafka
• Experience working in an Agile and Scrum environment
• Web-based/SaaS company background
• Startup experience

Join us in reshaping how hosting is built, and help create industry‑leading solutions that are scalable, reliable, and cost‑effective.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.