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Principal Engineer/ DevOps

Qlay

Nigeria · flexible Contract Lead 1mo ago

About the role

About

Responsibilities

As a Principal Engineer, you will:

  • Own and evolve the architecture of cloud and on-prem infrastructure
  • Lead design and implementation of highly available, scalable, and secure systems
  • Set infrastructure standards for reliability, observability, performance, and cost efficiency
  • Drive company-wide initiatives around availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning
  • Act as a technical authority for infrastructure, SRE, and platform-related decisions
  • Review and guide complex infrastructure designs, migrations, and incident responses
  • Identify systemic risks and proactively reduce operational and security debt
  • Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar for infrastructure engineering practices
  • Partner with product, security, and leadership to align infra strategy with business goals

Qualifications

  • Preferably graduated from a top Vietnamese university (HCMUT, HCMUS, HUST, UIT, etc.) and/ or top university around the world.
  • 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, or platform engineering
  • Deep expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native architecture
  • Strong background in Linux, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing), and distributed systems
  • Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
  • Proven experience designing and operating high-availability, production systems
  • Strong incident management and root cause analysis experience
  • Excellent communication and technical leadership skills

Technical Skills

  • Cloud services: compute, networking, storage, IAM
  • Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • CI/CD systems and deployment automation
  • Observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting
  • Security best practices (identity, secrets, encryption, least privilege)
  • Cost optimization and capacity planning

Nice to Have

  • Experience with SRE practices and SLIs/SLOs
  • Experience running infrastructure at scale (high traffic, global systems)
  • Multi-region and disaster recovery architecture
  • Experience with compliance-heavy environments (SOC2, ISO, HIPAA, PCI)
  • Background in platform or developer experience teams

Additional Information

  • This will be structured as contractor work.
  • Devices: You will be expected to use your own computer to perform the work.

Skills

AWSAzureCI/CDCloudFormationCloud-native architectureCost optimizationDockerGCPIAMInfrastructure as CodeKubernetesLinuxLoggingMonitoringNetworkingObservabilityPulumiSecurity best practicesTerraformTracing

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