DevOps Principal Engineer

Key Skills DevOps, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Python, CI/CD, Spring Boot, GitHub, Tekton, HarnessGood to Have Skills Experience with Mainframe DevOps tools such as IBM DBB and Wazi Deploy. Familiarity with AI tools like GitHub Copilot and Devin.AI for code generation and automation. Knowledge of immutable infrastructure, Policy-as-Code, Agile methodologies, and continuous delivery approaches including Canary and Blue-green deployments. Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, ELK/Grafana stack.Roles & ResponsibilitiesDefine and champion the technical strategy for DevOps platforms and services, aligning with global Citi Technology standards and organizational objectives.Lead the design and implementation of new technologies and design patterns for experience platform services with emphasis on migrating legacy pipeline infrastructure to modern platforms.Establish and certify best practices for containerizing existing applications for deployment onto internal or external cloud platforms.Develop cohesive interpersonal working relationships with peers, team members, engineering partners and internal customers fostering collaborative environment for delivery expectations.Lead efforts in process re-engineering within the DevOps domain to eliminate bottlenecks, streamline workflows, and drive continuous improvement.Lead the team of junior engineers and team members located in Chennai and Pune while working as site-lead for DevOps team in India.Drive adoption of standard tools and pipelines inline with organizational targets and lead support of application production releases focusing on zero-touch deployments.Optimize pipeline services for reliability, responsiveness, runtime footprint, and recoverability using performance engineering and memory profiling tools.Implement quality gates for both secure and standard coding practices, ensuring compliance and best practices before production releases.Actively partner with engineering teams for solution design, validation and implementation, sharing feedback, issues and best practices with development teams.Generate adoption metrics and reports to be shared with partners and leadership teams while working with geographically distributed teams across multiple timezones.Experience Required Minimum 15+ years of relevant experience in DevOps platform services with subject matter expertise in principal engineering. Proven hands-on expertise in establishing and implementing new technologies, design patterns, and frameworks.Education Bachelor's/University degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline. Master's degree preferred