Lead DevOps Engineer

WizCommerce; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

WizCommerce is seeking a seasoned Lead DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and champion a culture of reliability and continuous improvement across the engineering organisation.

You will design, implement, and maintain GCP-based infrastructure, build scalable CI/CD pipelines, define SLOs, manage GKE, and ensure observability and security across projects.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infra roles.
• Hands-on with GCP services (Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM).
• Strong IaC experience (Terraform preferred) or Pulumi.
• Deep Kubernetes/GKE experience (Helm, Kustomize, RBAC, network policies).
• Scripting in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Proven CI/CD experience.
• Solid Linux internals and networking knowledge.
• Experience defining SLOs and incident management.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain GCP-based infra with IaC.
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs and manage incident post-mortems.
• Manage GKE cluster autoscaling, upgrades, network policies, workload security.
• Establish observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki.
• Drive cost optimization and cloud spend governance.
• Ensure security best practices: IAM least privilege, secret management.
• Collaborate with platform, backend, data teams to deploy reliable releases.
• Mentor junior staff and conduct reviews.
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling to improve dev experience and reliability.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

On-call experience

Distributed systems

Linux networking

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GKE

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Cloud Monitoring

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Job description

We are looking for a seasoned Lead DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will work at the intersection of software engineering and operations, building highly reliable, scalable, and observable systems that power our products. As a lead, you will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and champion a culture of reliability and continuous improvement across the engineering organisation.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain GCP-based infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform and Deployment Manager.
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, or equivalent).
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; lead incident response and post-mortems.
• Manage Kubernetes (GKE) cluster autoscaling, upgrades, network policies, and workload security.
• Establish observability standards using tools such as Cloud Monitoring, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki.
• Drive capacity planning, cost optimisation, and cloud spend governance across GCP projects.
• Champion security best practices: IAM least-privilege, secret management (Secret Manager / Vault), VPC design.
• Collaborate closely with platform, backend, and data engineering teams to deliver reliable deployments.
• Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps/SRE engineers; conduct code and design reviews.
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling to improve developer experience and system reliability.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC, and IAM.
• Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code Terraform (preferred) or Pulumi.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes/GKE: Helm, Kustomize, namespaces, RBAC, network policies.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language: Python, Go, or Bash.
• Proven track record designing and operating large-scale CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, networking (DNS, TCP/IP, TLS), and distributed systems.
• Experience defining SLOs and running incident management (on-call, RCA, post-mortems).

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Professional certifications (Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Architect, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Knowledge of data infrastructure on GCP BigQuery, Dataflow, and Dataproc.
• Prior experience in a lead or staff-level role with mentorship responsibilities.
• Exposure to FinOps practices and GCP cost management tools.