Principal Engineer, Cloud Automation and Standards

Syneos Health

Principal Engineer providing technical leadership for cloud automation and infrastructure at Syneos Health. Focused on standardized, compliant, and scalable infrastructure foundation delivery.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeHyderabad • 🇮🇳 IndiaLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformLinuxTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Principal Engineer provides technical leadership for delivering standardized, compliant, and scalable infrastructure foundations (IaaS) through automation, operating as a predictable internal service provider.
This role owns infrastructure standards and configurations, base images, capacity and quota management, lifecycle and patching execution, and integration with foundational services such as network, DNS/Infoblox, storage (NetApp), and identity.
The Principal Engineer establishes and enforces infrastructure-as-code standards, image factory and lifecycle automation, and cloud-native quota/capacity modeling to ensure repeatable provisioning and operational rigor.
Operating within guardrails that prohibit bespoke builds, the role drives an automation-first mindset and implements controls that prevent manual variance so all consumption flows through approved patterns defined by Architecture and Engineering.
Own and evolve standardized infrastructure foundation patterns, configurations, and base images for Windows and Linux platforms.
Build and operate an automation-first provisioning model, ensuring all consumption flows through approved patterns and engineering-defined pipelines (no bespoke/manual builds).

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience); advanced degree preferred.
Senior-level experience in infrastructure engineering or solution architecture, with strong emphasis on standardized IaaS foundations and automation in Azure, GCP, AWS and OCI (or comparable cloud environments).
Strong Windows and Linux administration skills, including patching, baseline hardening, and lifecycle management.
Demonstrated expertise with core infrastructure services: networking, SSL, DNS, and Infoblox (or equivalent IPAM/DNS tooling).
Experience with enterprise storage platforms (e.g., NetApp) and standardized storage/access patterns.
Proven ability to integrate identity and access patterns with enterprise directory and security standards.
Hands-on experience building automation and IaC standards (e.g., Terraform/Bicep/ARM), including reusable modules, guardrails, and policy-based controls.
Experience implementing image factory pipelines (build, validation, publishing) and controls that prevent manual variance/drift in builds.
Strong operational rigor: incident/problem management, root-cause analysis, documentation, and measurable service outcomes (SLA/SLO).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence stakeholders and align engineering teams to approved patterns and guardrails.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure EngineeringAutomationWindows AdministrationLinux AdministrationInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformBicepARMNetworkingEnterprise Storage

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationStakeholder InfluenceTeam Alignment

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceEngineering Degree