Principal Engineer Cloud Automation and Standards

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

• 8–14 yrs of experience
• Terraform
• AWS
• Linux
• GCP
• Azure
• Root cause analysis
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA

Good to have

• Customer success