Principal Engineer Cloud Automation and Standards
Syneos Health4 months ago
Hyderābād, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve standardized infrastructure foundation patterns, configurations, and Windows and Linux base images.
- Build and operate automation-first provisioning through approved engineering patterns and pipelines, prohibiting bespoke or manual builds.
- Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards, reusable modules, policy controls, and deployment guardrails.
- Design and operate an image factory for automated image building, validation, hardening, versioning, and publishing.
- Lead patching, lifecycle management, baseline compliance, service-level outcomes, and audit-ready evidence for foundational infrastructure.
- Own capacity management and cloud-native quota modeling, including forecasting, trend analysis, thresholds, and lifecycle planning.
- Engineer network and name-service integrations, including DNS and Infoblox, and operate standardized NetApp storage foundations.
- Implement identity and access patterns aligned with enterprise security and platform standards.
- Implement policy checks, automated drift detection, and remediation workflows to eliminate manual variance.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across compute, network, storage, and identity while driving root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- Apply infrastructure standards across Azure, GCP, AWS, and OCI.
- Influence stakeholders and align engineering teams with approved infrastructure patterns and guardrails.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of cloud engineering experience.
- Senior-level infrastructure engineering or solution architecture experience focused on standardized IaaS foundations and automation across Azure, GCP, AWS, OCI, or comparable cloud environments.
- Strong Windows and Linux administration skills, including patching, baseline hardening, and lifecycle management.
- Expertise with networking, SSL, DNS, and Infoblox or equivalent IPAM/DNS tooling.
- Experience with enterprise storage platforms such as NetApp and standardized storage and access patterns.
- Experience integrating identity and access patterns with enterprise directory and security standards.
- Hands-on experience building infrastructure-as-code standards using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM, including reusable modules, guardrails, and policy-based controls.
- Experience implementing image factory pipelines and controls that prevent manual build variance and drift.
- Strong operational rigor in incident and problem management, root-cause analysis, documentation, and measurable service outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders and align engineering teams.
Benefits
- Career development and progression opportunities, supportive line management, technical and therapeutic area training, peer recognition, and a total rewards program.
- Inclusive culture focused on enabling employees to authentically be themselves.
- Opportunity to work in a collaborative, globally distributed life sciences services organization supporting healthcare and clinical development.
- The company provides reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act when appropriate.
About Syneos Health
Syneos Health provides outsourced clinical development and commercialization services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies, spanning clinical trials, medical affairs, and product launch support. The company operates under fee-for-service and functional service provider models across global drug development. Headquartered in Morrisville, NC, it was formed in 2017 through the merger of INC Research and inVentiv Health and was acquired in 2023 by affiliates of Elliott Management.