About This Opportunity
Metantz works with a curated network of innovative product startups and tech companies across Bangalore, helping them place senior engineering talent that can make an immediate impact. We are currently sourcing experienced Senior DevOps Engineers for multiple high-growth startups building in SaaS, fintech, deeptech, and enterprise software spaces.
If you're someone who doesn't just manage infrastructure but architects it, mentors teams, and drives engineering culture - we want to talk to you.
What You'll Be Doing
Infrastructure & Platform
- Architect and own end-to-end cloud infrastructure strategy across AWS, GCP, Azure - including multi-region, multi-account setups
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems
- Own platform engineering initiatives - building internal developer platforms (IDPs) that improve engineering velocity across teams
- Drive cloud cost optimization strategies with measurable impact on burn rate
CI/CD & Delivery
- Architect and govern CI/CD pipelines across multiple product teams and microservices
- Define and enforce release management standards, branching strategies, and deployment patterns
- Lead migration of legacy deployment workflows to modern GitOps-based delivery (ArgoCD, FluxCD)
Security & Compliance
- Own DevSecOps practices - integrating security scanning, SAST, DAST, secrets management, and compliance checks into pipelines
- Lead SOC2, ISO 27001, or equivalent compliance initiatives from an infrastructure perspective
- Define access control policies, network segmentation, and zero-trust architecture
Observability & Reliability
- Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across services in collaboration with engineering leads
- Build and own the full observability stack - metrics, logs, traces (Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry)
- Lead incident response, blameless post-mortems, and systemic reliability improvements
Leadership & Collaboration
- Mentor junior and mid-level DevOps engineers - code reviews, architecture walkthroughs, and growth planning
- Partner with CTOs and Engineering Heads at startup clients to align infrastructure roadmap with product goals
- Represent DevOps in cross-functional planning - sprint reviews, architecture councils, and hiring decisions
- Document infrastructure decisions via ADRs (Architecture Decision Records) and runbooks
What We're Looking For
Must-Have
- 5–8 years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering experience in product companies or startups
- Deep expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS strongly preferred) - including VPC design, IAM, networking, and managed services
- Production-grade Kubernetes experience - cluster management, autoscaling, RBAC, network policies
- Strong Infrastructure as Code skills - Terraform at scale, including modules, remote state, and multi-environment management
- Demonstrated experience owning reliability and on-call for production systems at meaningful traffic scale
- Solid programming, scripting ability in Python, Go, or Bash for tooling and automation
Good to Have
- Experience building or contributing to an Internal Developer Platform (Backstage, Port, or custom)
- Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud exposure
- FinOps experience — cloud cost attribution, rightsizing, reserved instance strategy
- Contributions to open-source DevOps tooling or active community presence
- Startup experience where you've set up infrastructure from scratch (greenfield)
What Makes a Strong Candidate
- You've built things from zero — not just maintained what others set up
- You can influence without authority — engineers trust your technical judgment
- You balance speed and stability — you know when to move fast and when to slow down
- You write clear documentation — runbooks, RCAs, and ADRs that teams actually use
- You have a product mindset — you think about developer experience as a product you own
What's In It For You
- Senior-level roles at well-funded, technically ambitious startups in Bangalore
- Work on real infrastructure challenges at scale - not ticket-driven ops work
- Competitive compensation with equity upside at many client companies
- Direct visibility with CTOs and founding engineering teams
- Opportunity to shape DevOps culture and practices from the ground up
