Staff DevOps Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Salary range: Rs 5000000 - Rs 7000000 (ie INR 50 - 70 LPA)

Min Experience: 10+ years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineering leader with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, SRE, automation, security, and platform scalability for mission-critical systems.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Scalability

• Design, build, and operate highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure
• Make architectural trade-offs and drive infrastructure decisions for large-scale distributed systems
• Improve platform reliability, deployment velocity, operational excellence, and developer experience
• Drive infrastructure modernization, automation, and cloud-native engineering practices

Technical Leadership

• Mentor and guide DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering teams
• Demonstrate strong technical leadership and create engineering impact across teams
• Lead AI adoption strategies for engineering productivity, infrastructure automation, and operational efficiency
• Participate in infrastructure, architecture, and security reviews to maintain high engineering standards

DevOps, Security & Compliance

• Drive secure and compliant deployment practices aligned with PCI-DSS, SOC2, and related standards
• Lead incident response, production outage management, RCA/post-mortems, and SRE practices
• Ensure platform security, reliability, scalability, and observability across environments

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Data, and QA teams to define and execute platform roadmap
• Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions
• Manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, dependencies, and timelines
• Coordinate planning and execution across cross-functional teams

Performance & Optimization

• Drive capacity planning, infrastructure performance tuning, and cloud cost optimization
• Continuously improve monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational visibility
• Enhance deployment pipelines and infrastructure automation practices

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent (B.E / B.Tech / MCA / M.Tech)
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
• Strong experience working with large-scale distributed production systems in reputed product or fintech organizations

Required Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

Strong hands-on expertise with AWS cloud infrastructure and services such as:

• ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, WAF, SSM, Secrets Manager, etc.
• Deep understanding of Linux production environments
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, system internals, and asynchronous architectures

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Strong programming/scripting skills in Go, Python, or Shell scripting
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation

Strong experience with CI/CD and GitOps practices using:

• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.

Observability & Reliability

Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring stacks:

• Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and centralized logging
• Strong understanding of performance engineering, reliability, scalability, and production operations

Containers & Databases

• Experience with Docker, container runtimes, and container image security

Experience managing RDBMS and NoSQL databases at scale:

• PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
• Strong understanding of load balancing, API gateways, and low-latency distributed services

Engineering & Execution

• Experience with microservices architecture and service-to-service communication patterns
• Ability to scope, estimate, prioritize, and execute infrastructure/platform releases
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Passion for building scalable engineering systems and solving complex infrastructure challenges

Good to Have

• Prior experience in fintech or payments domain
• Hands-on Kubernetes production experience
• Experience with blockchain, stablecoins, or cryptocurrency infrastructure
• AWS cloud certifications
• Familiarity with PCI-DSS, SOC2, OWASP, static code analysis, and security tooling
• Exposure to data engineering technologies such as ClickHouse and dbt
• Prior experience working in high-growth startup environments

Must-have skills

DevOps, AWS, Kubernetes

Good-to-have skills

Terraform, distributed production, Python