Principal Engineer - DevOps

Flexera saves customers billions of dollars in wasted technology spend. A pioneer in Hybrid ITAM and FinOps Flexera provides award-winning data-oriented SaaS solutions for technology value optimization (TVO) enabling IT finance procurement and cloud teams to gain deep insights into cost optimization compliance and risks for each business service. Flexera One solutions are built on a set of definitive customer supplier and industry data powered by our Technology Intelligence Platform that enables organizations to visualize their Enterprise Technology Blueprint in hybrid environmentsfrom on-premises to SaaS to containers to cloud.

Were transforming the software industry. Were Flexera. Withmore than 50000 customersacross the world were achievingthat goal.Butwe knowwe cant do any of that without our team.Ready to help us re-imagine the industry during a time of substantial growth and ambitious plans Come and see whywere consistently recognized by Gartner Forrester and IDCas a category leader in the marketplace.Learn more at

As aPrincipal Engineer DevOps you will be a hands-on technical leader driving the architecture design and implementation of DevOps solutions for FlexerasOceanandElastigroupproduct lines. Youll collaborate across engineering product and operations teams to deliver scalable secure and automated infrastructure. This role also supports the expansion of new engineering teams in India focused onQuality Engineering and Automation as well asApplication Delivery contributing to knowledge transfer and global innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design
  • Define and evolve DevOps architecture for Ocean and Elastigroup ensuring scalability reliability and performance
  • Design infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks using Terraform CloudFormation and Kubernetes
• Implementation & Automation
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native microservices
  • Develop automation scripts and tooling to support deployment monitoring and incident response
• Cloud Optimization & Security
  • Optimize multi-cloud environments (AWS Azure GCP) for cost performance and resilience
  • Implement security best practices across infrastructure and deployment workflows
• Collaboration & Mentorship
  • Partner with global engineering teams to align on DevOps standards and practices
  • Support onboarding and technical enablement of the India-based Quality Engineering and Automation and Application Delivery teams
• Observability & Reliability
  • Integrate monitoring and alerting tools into production systems
  • Lead root cause analysis and postmortems for critical incidents

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field
• 10 years of experience in software engineering with 5 years in DevOps or infrastructure roles
• Proven expertise in cloud-native architecture container orchestration (Kubernetes) and CI/CD tooling
• Strong coding skills in Java or similar languages
• Expertise with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform) and cloud cost management tools
• Experience with SaaS delivery and cloud cost optimization
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills

Preferred Skills

• Exposure to ML/AI systems
• Experience with observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana) and performance/load testing frameworks (e.g. JMeter k6)
• Familiarity with FinOps ITAM and cloud governance principles
• AWS or Kubernetes certifications (e.g. AWS DevOps Engineer CKA)
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and contributing to architectural councils

Why Join Flexera

• Shape the technical future of industry-leading cloud optimization products
• Work on high-impact projects with global reach and visibility
• Collaborate with passionate teams in a flexible inclusive environment
• Enjoy opportunities for continuous learning and career growth

AtFlexera we believe in doing the right thingfor our customers our people and the world. If youre ready to architect meaningful systems that transform how companies manage their technology investments wed love to meet you.

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