Principal Engineer Cloud Automation and Standards
HyderabadFull-timeHybrid8–14 yrsPosted over a month ago
Leadership DevOps and cloud role at Syneos Health in Hyderabad. Needs 8+ years and a B.Tech, B.E. or B.Sc. Hybrid.
About the role
The Principal Engineer provides technical leadership for delivering standardized, compliant, and scalable infrastructure foundations (IaaS) through automation, operating as a predictable internal service provider. This role owns infrastructure standards and configurations, base images, capacity and quota management, lifecycle and patching execution, and integration with foundational services such as network, DNS/Infoblox, storage (NetApp), and identity.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve standardized infrastructure foundation patterns, configurations, and base images for Windows and Linux platforms
- Build and operate an automation-first provisioning model, ensuring all consumption flows through approved patterns and engineering-defined pipelines (no bespoke/manual…
- Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards, modules, and guardrails to enable repeatable, compliant deployments at scale
- Design and run an “image factory” capability, including automated build, validation, hardening, versioning, and publishing of golden images
- Lead patching, lifecycle, and baseline compliance for foundational infrastructure services, with measurable SLAs/SLOs and audit-ready evidence
What you need
- Terraform
- AWS
- Linux
- GCP
- Azure
- Root cause analysis
Good to have
- Customer success