Staff DevOps Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 10 years

Location: Chennai

JobType: full-time

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with engineering, QA, and internal technology teams to design and sustain a resilient, scalable, and secure build and testing environment.
• Improve and maintain tools utilized for test execution, orchestration, and scheduling throughout development workflows.
• Regularly evaluate system performance, detect bottlenecks, and apply enhancements to ensure system stability and efficiency.
• Oversee infrastructure lifecycle tasks, including performing updates, upgrades, and applying security patches.
• Deploy and manage monitoring solutions to observe infrastructure health, system behavior, and application performance.
• Lead automation efforts using configuration management tools to optimize provisioning and deployment processes.
• Create and update comprehensive technical documentation detailing system architecture, procedures, and troubleshooting methods.

Required Skills:
Essential Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the capability to work effectively across engineering and IT teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
• About 10 or more years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or comparable roles.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in leading engineers or managing technical projects.
• Strong proficiency in Linux system administration and shell scripting.
• Advanced programming skills in Python.
• Practical experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack.
• Knowledge of container ecosystems and tools like Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Must-have skills

DevOps

Linux

Python

Good-to-have skills

Configuration Management

Docker

Kubernetes