principal Engineer-Site Reliability Engineering and AIOps (Telangana)

About this role: We are looking for a Principal Engineer to set the enterprise technical direction for Site Reliability Engineering and AIOps within Enterprise Functions Technology (EFT). This is a hands-on architecture and engineering leadership role responsible for defining the reliability strategy, reference architectures, and engineering standards across a large application portfolio and multiple lines of business. You will drive cross-organization adoption of SLOs/error budgets, full-stack observability, incident and problem management rigor, and automation-first operations ensuring reliability is designed into the software delivery lifecycle and operating model. Success is defined by measurable outcomes at scale: improved availability and resiliency of critical journeys, fewer customer-impacting incidents, reduced operational toil, and faster, safer recovery delivered through modern engineering practices, data-driven decisioning, and platform capabilities. In this role, you will: - Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence applications, network, information security, database, operating systems, or web technologies for highly complex business and technical needs across multiple groups - Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking - Translate advanced technology experience, an in-depth knowledge of the organizations tactical and strategic business objectives, the enterprise technological environment, the organization structure, and strategic technological opportunities and requirements into technical engineering solutions - Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions - Maintain knowledge of industry best practices and new technologies and recommends innovations that enhance operations or provide a competitive advantage to the organization - Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership Required Qualifications: - 7+ years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education Desired Qualifications: - 7+ years of engineering experience, including principal-level technical leadership on large-scale reliability, production operations, or platform programs across complex environments. - 7+ years of software engineering experience (e.g., Java, C#, Python) with demonstrated expertise in system design and distributed systems; track record of delivering reusable automation and platform capabilities adopted by multiple teams. - 5+ years operating Linux/Unix and Windows platforms in production, including performance tuning, capacity planning, and reliability hardening for mission-critical services. - 5+ years designing and operating cloud solutions (public and/or private cloud), including reliability and security architecture, infrastructure-as-code, and cost-aware engineering at scale. - 5+ years leading reliability and operations practices for enterprise-scale, highly available services, including major incident leadership, problem management, and establishing operational readiness mechanisms. - 5+ years architecting and scaling full-stack observability solutions, including instrumentation standards, alert strategy, service dashboards, and governance that improves signal quality and reduces noise. - 5+ years with automation and observability toolsets (e.g., Ansible, Grafana, Elastic, Splunk, Prometheus) and experience building reusable components, templates, and paved paths integrated with CI/CD. - Exceptional communication and influence skills, including the ability to align senior stakeholders, drive technical decisions across organizations, and clearly articulate risk, tradeoffs, and recommended paths forward. - Deep experience applying advanced analytics and/or AI/ML to production operations (AIOps), including model monitoring, drift/quality controls, explainability, and risk/compliance alignment. - Experience leading complex, cross-team delivery using Agile/Scrum and/or Kanban, including establishing operating mechanisms that scale. - Experience defining reliability and resiliency architecture for regulated environments, including alignment with information security, audit, and risk management partners. - Demonstrated technical thought leadership (e.g., internal engineering community leadership, reference implementations, publications/patents, or speaking engagements). Job Expectations: - Set and evangelize the SRE and AIOps technical strategy for EFT, establishing reference architectures, standards, guardrails (service tiering, onboarding criteria, SLO/error budget governance) and .