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Posted by tabbasum shaikh
10 - 15 yrs
₹70L - ₹80L / yr
Bengaluru (Bangalore)
Skills
skill iconKubernetes
cloud architecture
Platform engineering
Observability
security and compliance
Mentorship
collaboration
sre

Role & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

  • Infrastructure at Scale
  • Design and evolve our cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes), ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency across regions and products.
  • Platform & Developer Experience
  • Build internal tools and platforms that help engineers deploy, monitor, and scale their services independently — with minimal friction and maximum confidence.
  • CI/CD & Release Automation
  • Architect secure, fast, and scalable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments using tools like GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
  • Reliability Engineering
  • Champion observability, SLOs, and incident response practices. Drive a culture of proactive performance monitoring and resilient system design.
  • Security & Governance
  • Integrate DevSecOps practices — from policy-as-code and automated audits to secure secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
  • Mentorship & Thought Leadership
  • Guide and mentor DevOps and SRE engineers. Partner closely with platform developers on infrastructure strategy, deployment patterns, and production readiness.

Ideal Candidate

  • Strong Principal DevOps Engineer Profile
  • Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 10+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned) in B2B SAAS companies
  • Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have worked in Principal / Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role and demonstrated org-level ownership - setting infra roadmap, defining DevOps charter, or structuring the platform function not just domain-level technical ownership
  • Mandatory (Experience 3): Must show evidence of strategic authorship, defined multi-year infra/platform strategy, drove company-wide architectural shifts as an initiator (not implementer), or directly interfaced with VP Eng / CTO / product leadership on infra direction
  • Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)
  • Mandatory (Tech Skills 1 - Cloud & Infra): AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems
  • Mandatory (Tech Skills 2 - Automation & IaC): Terraform (must-have), Helm / GitOps, Strong scripting (Python / Go / Bash)
  • Mandatory (Tech Skills 4 - Reliability & Observability): SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), Alerting, on-call, incident management
  • Mandatory (Leadership): Must demonstrate leadership experience in an individual contributor capacity having mentored senior engineers, driven cross-team technical alignment, or anchored org-wide initiatives without having moved into a people management or engineering manager role
  • Mandatory (Company): Strong B2B SaaS product companies only
  • Preferred (Education): B.Tech in Computer Science or related fields


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