Lead Devops engineer

Weekday AI (YC W21); Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Weekday AI (YC W21) Bengaluru is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to own cloud, automation, and reliability strategy. The role demands expert scripting, strong multi-cloud experience (AWS primary; Azure/GCP), and IaC mastery to guide architecture and mentoring across the team.

You will own AWS security posture, govern CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate on data platform infra (Lakehouse/Databricks, BI tools). This is a hands-on leadership position with measurable impact on engineering standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of DevOps/Platform engineering experience with cloud-first mindset.
• Hands-on leadership and mentoring capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own DevOps, platform, and cloud strategy and architecture.
• Lead scalable, secure system designs across teams.
• Set standards for IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security.
• Architect and govern Jenkins CI/CD across teams.
• Drive container-platform strategy with Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Mentor and grow senior and junior engineers.

Skills

Python/Bash scripting

AWS multi-cloud

IaC with Terraform/Ansible

Jenkins CI/CD

Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift

Observability/SRE

AWS security best practices

Lakehouse/Databricks/BI

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GCP

Databricks

QuickSight

Power BI

Job description

Job Description:

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 2000000 - Rs 3000000 (ie INR 20 - 30 LPA)

Min Experience: 7+ years
Location: Bengaluru
JobType: full-time

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to own our cloud, automation, and reliability strategy. The ideal candidate brings expert scripting, deep multi-cloud experience (AWS primary; Azure/GCP), infrastructure-as-code mastery, container-platform ownership, mature observability and security posture, and a solid understanding of modern data technologies. This is a hands-on leadership role: setting standards, driving architecture, and mentoring the team.

This role requires strong architectural judgement, the ability to lead automation and platform initiatives end-to-end, and the capability to raise engineering standards across application, infrastructure, and data layers.

Key Responsibilities

• Own DevOps, platform, and cloud strategy and architecture
• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and secure systems\
• Set and govern standards for IaC, CI/CD, observability, and security
• Architect and govern Jenkins CI/CD across multiple teams
• Drive container-platform strategy across Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Own AWS security posture and compliance
• Guide data-platform infrastructure — Lakehouse / Warehouse / Databricks and BI (QuickSight / Power BI)
• Champion AIOps and observability maturity
• Lead FinOps governance and cost strategy
• Mentor and grow senior and junior engineers

Required Skills

• Strong scripting in Python and/or Bash
• Deep, architecture-level, hands-on AWS (or Azure); multi-cloud fluency
• IaC mastery with Terraform and/or Ansible
• Expertise designing and governing Jenkins CI/CD pipelines; Git
• Production ownership of Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift
• Mature, hands-on experience with observability frameworks and SRE practices
• Strong ownership of security posture practices on AWS
• Good understanding of Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Databricks, QuickSight, and Power BI
• Advanced routing, Transit Gateways, Site-to-Site VPN, Client VPN
• Proven leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration

Preferred Skills

• AIOps at scale
• Deep multi-cloud experience across Azure and GCP
• FinOps at organizational scale
• AWS Professional / Specialty certifications

Eligibility / Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent.

Other Details

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 days

Must-have skills

• DevOps, AWS, Terraform

Good-to-have skills

• Jenkins, Kubernetes, Openshift