Staff DevOps Engineer

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.

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
  

• 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
  

Location

• Bengaluru / Chennai