Alcon

Sr. Principal Engineer

Alcon
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21 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture, design, and implementation of scalable, secure, high-performing enterprise and cloud-native applications.
  • Define architecture standards, design principles, engineering best practices, and technology strategy across teams.
  • Drive enterprise modernization and cloud transformation initiatives focused on scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
  • Conduct architectural assessments, design reviews, and production-readiness reviews.
  • Own performance engineering through workload models, capacity strategies, load and stress testing, and capacity planning using JMeter and NeoLoad.
  • Design scalable UI and API automation frameworks and integrate continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed systems and lead root-cause resolution.
  • Drive observability, monitoring, reliability engineering, performance tuning, and production support practices.
  • Translate business requirements into scalable, maintainable, secure technical solutions.
  • Mentor engineering teams and influence strategic technology decisions.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and automation capabilities, including enterprise AI solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with 15+ years of experience designing and modernizing enterprise-scale applications.
  • Expertise in C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Web API, Entity Framework, microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise application architecture.
  • Experience with Python, SQL, JavaScript, and Java-based services; Java experience is listed as good to have.
  • Experience with OpenAPI, Swagger, NuGet, RESTful APIs, MVC, domain-driven design, event-driven architecture, enterprise integration patterns, and API governance.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Selenium, Ranorex, UI and API automation, regression automation, and CI-integrated testing.
  • Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, infrastructure automation, and DevSecOps practices.
  • Expertise in Datadog, Zipkin, application monitoring, distributed tracing, log analysis, reliability engineering, and production readiness validation.
  • Experience with performance testing, bottleneck analysis, optimization, workload modeling, load testing, stress testing, and capacity planning using JMeter and NeoLoad.
  • Strong knowledge of relational databases, data modeling, database design, query optimization, data migration, transaction management, scalability, and reliability.
  • Experience with Generative AI, LangChain, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, LLM integration, and intelligent automation is relevant to the role.
  • Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, technical leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration abilities.
  • Ability to balance strategic architecture ownership with hands-on technical execution.

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance is provided.
  • Work hours are 1 PM to 10 PM IST.

Tech Stack

Apache JMeterAWSC#DatadogDockerGitHub ActionsJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetes.NETPythonSeleniumSQL

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