Principal Engineer/ DevOps

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Principal Engineer/ DevOps

Qlay

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Job descriptions & requirements

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

• 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

• This will be structured as contractor work.

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

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If you are interested in this position, please:

• Email hr@qlay.ai if you have any questions

• Send your CV through application form: https://sheets.qlay.ai/dashboard/#/nc/form/e24f9aba-77d0-4348-9bf9-c4bc8ff7d53a