Informatica · 9 hours ago
Principal DevOps Engineer
Redwood City, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
8+ years expInformatica is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead their multi-cloud operations strategy and shape the future of their global infrastructure. The role involves architecting scalable solutions, implementing AIOps frameworks, and mentoring a team of engineers to ensure the reliability and uptime of complex distributed systems.
AnalyticsBig DataCloud ComputingCloud Data ServicesCyber SecurityData IntegrationData Management
Responsibilities
Architect & Strategize: Lead the design of our next-generation deployment architecture for a microservices-based platform. Drive technological choices for team tooling and infrastructure, ensuring long-term scalability and reliability
AIOPS: Implement AIOps frameworks to improve operational tasks and enhance system self-healing capabilities
Develop CI/CD Pipelines: Design, manage, and increase our CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Git, and GitHub to allow rapid, reliable, and automated software delivery
Ensure Uptime: Take ultimate ownership of our production environment's stability. Lead end-to-end incident management, from escalation to Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Manage patching, upgrades, and disaster recovery processes. You will include participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation to support critical uptime
Automate & Operate: Engineer and own a world-class observability stack (e.g.,Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK). Develop automation scripts and frameworks to streamline operational tasks and enhance system self-healing capabilities
Mentor & Lead: Act as a technical leader and mentor for the team. Share your expertise, establish best practices, and improve the technical capabilities of the entire team
You are with a deep passion for solving complex infrastructure and scalability challenges in a distributed systems environment
You have, demonstrated by experience the uptime and reliability of critical production systems
You are an adept cross-cultural collaborator, while in a distributed, multicultural team environment (France/India)
You are a disciplined who is responsible, in a remote or hybrid work model
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field
8+ years of progressive experience in DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Platform Engineering, with at least 3 years in a senior role managing large-scale production environments
Deep, hands-on expertise in at least one major public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and production experience with at least one other
Experience supporting microservices-based architectures in a production environment
Architect & Strategize: Lead the design of our next-generation deployment architecture for a microservices-based platform
AIOPS: Implement AIOps frameworks to improve operational tasks and enhance system self-healing capabilities
Develop CI/CD Pipelines: Design, manage, and increase our CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Git, and GitHub
Ensure Uptime: Take ultimate ownership of our production environment's stability
Automate & Operate: Engineer and own a world-class observability stack (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK)
Mentor & Lead: Act as a technical leader and mentor for the team
You have, demonstrated by experience the uptime and reliability of critical production systems
You are an adept cross-cultural collaborator, while in a distributed, multicultural team environment (France/India)
You are a disciplined who is responsible, in a remote or hybrid work model
Preferred
AIOps & Experienced Automation: experience using observability data for AIOps programmes
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Mastery of tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
Scripting & Automation: Expert-level proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, MongoDB Queries) with a portfolio of successful automation projects
CI/CD: Deep experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment tools (Jenkins, Git, GitHub)
Observability: Hands-on experience building monitoring/logging for distributed systems (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)
Containerization: understanding and practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes (or other orchestrators)
Networking & OS: understanding of Unix/Linux fundamentals and advanced TCP/IP networking concepts (DNS, Load Balancers, Firewalls, VPC/VNet)
Company
Informatica
Informatica provides AI-powered cloud data management and integration solutions for enterprises to enable data-driven decisions.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$408M2025-05-27Acquired
2024-11-08Post Ipo Secondary· $408M
1999-04-29IPO
Leadership Team
Amit Walia
Chief Executive Officer
Graeme Thompson
SVP and Chief Information Officer
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