Principal Architect - SRE DevOps & DevSecOps

This role is for one of our clients

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting

Seniority level: Senior level

Experience: 14+ yrs

Location: Bengaluru

Job Type: full-time

Principal Architect – SRE, DevOps & DevSecOps

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly accomplished Principal Architect – SRE, DevOps & DevSecOps to drive enterprise-wide reliability, automation, platform engineering, and cloud transformation initiatives. This leadership role will define strategic architecture, governance frameworks, and operating models that enable scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient technology platforms across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong architectural vision and proven experience leading large-scale DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering transformations across complex enterprise environments.

Experience

15–20 years of overall IT experience.

Minimum 6+ years in architecture, transformation, and Center of Excellence (CoE) leadership roles.

Proven track record of leading enterprise-scale DevOps, SRE, Cloud, and DevSecOps initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technology Strategy

Define enterprise-wide architecture, standards, reference frameworks, and best practices for SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps, and Platform Engineering.

Design highly available, fault-tolerant, scalable, and resilient platforms across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Establish reliability engineering practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, and service resilience frameworks.

Lead adoption of Platform Engineering principles and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.

Drive modernization initiatives aligned with business and technology objectives.

SRE, DevOps & DevSecOps Leadership

Build, scale, and govern enterprise DevOps, SRE, and DevSecOps Centers of Excellence.

Define operating models, governance frameworks, maturity assessments, KPIs, and success metrics.

Standardize CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), observability, security, release management, and operational excellence practices.

Serve as a strategic advisor to engineering, infrastructure, cloud, and business stakeholders.

Develop reusable frameworks, accelerators, and reference implementations.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

Architect and govern enterprise solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.

Lead Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates, and related technologies.

Enable modern container platforms using Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, and service mesh architectures.

Drive cloud governance, platform standardization, scalability, reliability, and FinOps initiatives.

Define platform engineering strategies that accelerate software delivery and operational excellence.

Observability & Reliability Engineering

Architect enterprise observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, and related technologies.

Establish proactive monitoring, intelligent alerting, incident management, and reliability improvement programs.

Lead root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, and continuous service improvement initiatives.

Define enterprise reliability metrics and reporting frameworks.

CI/CD, Automation & DevSecOps

Standardize enterprise CI/CD platforms using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, Argo CD, and GitOps methodologies.

Promote pipeline-as-code, automated testing, release automation, and quality engineering practices.

Integrate security controls throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Drive adoption of automated compliance, policy-as-code, vulnerability management, and secure software development practices.

Security & Compliance

Embed DevSecOps principles across application and infrastructure delivery processes.

Partner with security teams to implement secrets management, vulnerability scanning, compliance automation, and governance controls.

Ensure adherence to enterprise security policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

Collaborate with senior technology leaders, enterprise architects, cloud teams, security organizations, and business stakeholders.

Mentor architects, engineers, and technology leaders across DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevSecOps domains.

Establish communities of practice, capability-building programs, and organizational enablement initiatives.

Influence executive leadership through measurable business outcomes, reliability metrics, and transformation roadmaps.

Required Skills & Expertise

Core Competencies

Site Reliability Engineering (SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, Reliability Frameworks)

DevOps Transformation & Enterprise Automation

DevSecOps Strategy & Secure Software Delivery

Platform Engineering & Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)

Cloud Architecture & Modern Infrastructure Design

Technical Skills

Containers & Orchestration

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

OpenShift

Service Mesh Technologies

CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Argo CD

GitOps

Cloud Platforms

AWS

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Infrastructure as Code & Configuration Management

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

ARM Templates

Observability & Monitoring

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Splunk

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Programming & Scripting

Python

Shell Scripting

Go (Preferred)

Security

DevSecOps Toolchains

Vulnerability Management

Secrets Management

Compliance Automation

Policy-as-Code

Preferred Experience

Experience leading enterprise-wide DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevSecOps transformations.

Proven success establishing and scaling Centers of Excellence.

Experience defining standards, governance models, reusable assets, and enterprise reference architectures.

Exposure to global delivery models and multi-region technology organizations.

Experience supporting pre-sales, solutioning, RFPs, and technology advisory engagements.

Leadership Attributes

Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Strong consulting, influencing, and decision-making capabilities.

Thought leadership mindset with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.

Ability to balance governance, risk management, and developer productivity.

Strong mentoring and organizational capability-building experience.

Preferred Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

SRE, DevOps, or DevSecOps-related certifications

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