Staff DevOps Engineer

Role : Staff DevOps Engineer

5 days/week, Karnataka, Bengaluru (On-site)

9 - 13 years

Role & Responsibilities

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Locus, you will own and evolve the systems that power our platform—spanning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability engineering, and developer enablement.This is a hands-on, high-impact leadership role for someone who thinks in platforms, influences architectural direction, and builds leverage across engineering teams. You won't just operate infrastructure—you'll design scalable, self-serve systems that help teams ship faster, safer, and with confidence at global scale.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure at Scale: Design and evolve our cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes), ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency across regions and products.
• Platform & Developer Experience: Build internal tools and platforms that help engineers deploy, monitor, and scale their services independently — with minimal friction and maximum confidence.
• CI/CD & Release Automation: Architect secure, fast, and scalable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments using tools like GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
• Reliability Engineering: Champion observability, SLOs, and incident response practices. Drive a culture of proactive performance monitoring and resilient system design.
• Security & Governance: Integrate DevSecOps practices — from policy-as-code and automated audits to secure secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
• Mentorship & Thought Leadership: Guide and mentor DevOps and SRE engineers. Partner closely with platform developers on infrastructure strategy, deployment patterns, and production readiness.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Senior / Staff DevOps Engineer Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 9+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned)
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have worked in Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role OR demonstrated ownership of infra/platform across teams (not just execution role)
• Mandatory (Experience 3): Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)
• Mandatory (Tech Skills 1 - Cloud & Infra): AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems
• Mandatory (Tech Skills 2 - Automation & Ia C): Terraform (must-have), Helm / GitOps, Strong scripting (Python / Go / Bash)
• Mandatory (Tech Skills 3 - CI/CD & Release): Scalable CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins), Zero/low downtime deployments
• Mandatory (Tech Skills 4 - Reliability & Observability): SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), Alerting, on-call, incident management
• Mandatory (Education): BTech in Computer Science or related fields
• Mandatory (Company): Strong B2B SaaS product companies only