Principal Devops Engineer

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries. EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide Capitalising on Indias strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK EQs vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ. Job Title: Principal DevOps Engineer Location: Bangalore – Electronic City Phase 2 Shift: UK Shift Mode: Weekly 3 days Work From Office Key Responsibilities DevOps & Engineering Excellence Own and evolve DevOps standards, CI/CD practices, and SDLC guardrails Champion automationfirst, qualitydriven engineering Act as the DevOps technical authority within squads CI/CD & Platform Engineering Design and scale secure, reusable, YAMLfirst CI/CD pipelines Drive adoption of trunkbased development, Infrastructure as Code, and progressive delivery (Blue/Green, Canary) Build reusable pipeline frameworks and platform accelerators Release & Reliability Engineering Lead release planning, risk assessment, deployment, and rollback strategies Ensure systems are observable, resilient, and reversible by design Conduct postrelease reviews and embed continuous improvement AIEnabled DevOps (Practical AIOps) Build custom agents to support development, deployment, and infrastructure pipelines Apply AIassisted DevOps to improve productivity and reliability, including: Intelligent pipeline failure analysis, AIassisted code, pipeline, and infrastructure reviews, Automated rootcause analysis using logs, metrics, and traces Drive responsible adoption of AIOps and AI tooling where it delivers measurable value Cloud & DevSecOps Design and operate secure cloud platforms on Azure (primary) and AWS Embed DevSecOps and policyascode into CI/CD pipelines Apply strong fundamentals in networking, security, and enterprise environments Mentorship & Enablement Mentor engineers across Development, QA, and Platform teams Raise DevOps maturity through handson coaching, standards, and guidance Technologies & Frameworks CI/CD: Azure DevOps (YAML & Classic), GitHub Actions, Jenkins Cloud & IaC: Azure, AWS, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Puppet Containers & Platform: Docker, Microservices, Kubernetes (AKS/EKS desirable) Automation: PowerShell (strong), Bash AI / AIOps: AIassisted DevOps tooling, intelligent observability Security & Data: DevSecOps practices, networking, MS SQL, Windows/.NET Experience & Expectations 14+ years in product / SaaS engineering environments Proven experience building and scaling DevOps capabilities Strong systems thinking across speed, reliability, security, and cost Ability to influence senior engineers and leaders without formal authority Success Measures Faster, safer, and predictable releases Highly automated, AIassisted DevOps pipelines Improved engineering productivity and reliability DevOps embedded as engineering culture, not just tooling