Principal SRE / Dev Ops Engineer

About Omnidian
Omnidian, Inc. is a fast-growing Series C tech-enabled service company revolutionizing performance assurance for the distributed solar and energy storage industries.  Omnidian is building a more sustainable future for the planet through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience.
We are a certified B Corp that formed in the US in 2016 and have been growing globally since then. We expanded to Australia in 2022, acquired Solar Service Guys in Australia in 2025, and have opened up a new talent hub in India in 2026. Be part of the "First Wave" experience! You would be a founding member of our India team, helping us build a brand-new hub from the ground up. 

The Job
As the Principal SRE / DevOps Engineer, you will play a foundational role in architecting the future of our platform reliability and operational ecosystem, serving as a technical lead and strategist as we build a robust, scalable, and highly supportable infrastructure to support our clients and products.
This is a hands-on technical position with some project management and leadership responsibilities. In this role, you will work closely with our Software Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to document and evangelize a vision for platform reliability, observability, and automation. You will guide the team to break the high-level vision into well-defined milestones. You will assist in establishing and will champion and participate in best practices in workload and reliability management, including providing visibility to stakeholders and executives for progress toward our vision.

What You’ll Do: At Omnidian we believe in trust and autonomy. How you create an impact is ultimately up to you. Here is an outline of the balance of responsibilities: Architecture Strategy and Vision (35%) Formulate the multi-year technical roadmap for our platform reliability, infrastructure, and operational excellence, identifying where intelligent automation can significantly remove engineering and operational bottlenecks (e.g., routine toil, deployment friction, scaling overhead, and incident response). Obtain executive and stakeholder buy-in for a documented vision for our SRE / DevOps deliverables. Communicate changes to and/or progress against the vision to executive and technical audiences. Translate the technical vision to actionable and trackable work plans, including meaningful milestones. Work with Software Product, Go-To-Market, and other partner teams and stakeholders to align on appropriate milestones and timelines. Translate business and reliability requirements to right-sized technical specifications; mentor team members to create technical documentation and clear success criteria (including SLIs/SLOs and error budgets). Maintain a security-first mindset, ensuring all infrastructure, automation frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines are robustly defended against operational and security vulnerabilities. Provide strong technical leadership and mentorship across teams, establishing clear, practical departmental standards for the safe and ethical use of automation and AI coding/ops assistants. Develop an appropriate reliability and testing strategy (leveraging automation and AI where effective for chaos testing, integration validation, and coverage), ensuring LOE estimates include right-sized reliability and observability work. SRE / DevOps Engineering (35%) Design, implement, and maintain production-grade Kubernetes platforms, cluster management, and related orchestration. Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Ansible and Terraform for consistent, repeatable environments. Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and release automation to enable safe, frequent, and reliable software delivery. Implement and refine observability stacks centered on Grafana (along with metrics, logging, and tracing systems) to provide actionable visibility into sy