Lead/Senior DevOps Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 1500000 - Rs 2800000 (ie INR 15-28 LPA)

Min Experience: 5 years

Location: Bengaluru

JobType: full-time

We are seeking an experienced DevOps professional with strong individual contributor expertise to design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure. This role requires deep hands-on experience across AWS, Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines, and production operations, along with the ability to lead reliability and automation initiatives across environments.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines in AWS environments.
• Own build, release, and deployment processes to ensure reliable and repeatable software delivery.
• Manage and optimize AWS services including EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, ELB, Route 53, and SNS.
• Administer and tune Linux-based systems for performance, security, and reliability.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and related tooling.
• Configure and maintain web servers and load balancers such as Nginx.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts using Bash, Python, or Perl.
• Manage production systems involving clusters, storage, backups, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
• Ensure system observability, uptime, and incident response readiness.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system reliability and deployment efficiency.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5–7 years of strong hands-on experience as a DevOps, Build & Release, or Site Reliability Engineer.
• Extensive experience running production systems in AWS cloud environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS core services: EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, ELB, Route 53, and SNS.
• Solid knowledge of Linux system administration and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and web infrastructure.
• Proficiency in scripting with Bash, Python, or Perl.
• Experience managing clusters, storage systems, backups, database operations, monitoring tools, and disaster recovery processes.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills

DevOps, AWS, Linux, Jenkins, Nginx, Networking, CI/CD, Automation