Senior devOps engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 4 years

Location: Gurgaon, India

JobType: full-time

We are looking for a highly skilled and proactive Senior DevOps Engineer to join our engineering team and help build, scale, and maintain reliable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience across the DevOps lifecycle with a strong emphasis on Python scripting for automation, tooling, and infrastructure management.

In this role, you will work closely with software engineers, QA, and platform teams to streamline CI/CD pipelines, improve system reliability, and enable faster, safer deployments. You will play a key role in automating infrastructure, optimizing cloud environments, and driving DevOps best practices across the organization.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available, and secure cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Python scripts to automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and operational tasks.
• Build, optimize, and manage CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software releases.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve build, release, and deployment processes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability; proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Improve observability by implementing logging, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
• Ensure security best practices across infrastructure, pipelines, and deployments.
• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and contribute to technical documentation and SOPs.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 4–7 years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong proficiency in Python scripting for automation, tooling, and system integration.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar.
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools.
• Strong Linux/Unix system administration skills.
• Experience working with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
• Good understanding of networking, security, and scalability concepts.

Nice to Have

• Experience building internal DevOps tools using Python.
• Exposure to SRE practices and reliability engineering.
• Knowledge of cost optimization and performance tuning in cloud environments.
• Experience working in fast-paced, product-driven or startup environments.