The Role
Lead platform engineering and SRE efforts to design, build, and operate highly scalable, secure cloud infrastructure. Drive automation, IaC, CI/CD/GitOps, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and cloud cost optimization. Mentor teams, set architecture and security standards (PCI-DSS/SOC2), and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver reliable, low-latency production systems.
Summary Generated by Built In
This role is for one of the Weekday's clients
Salary range: Rs 4000000 - Rs 8000000 (ie INR 40 - 80 LPA)
Min Experience: 10+ years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
JobType: full-time
We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineering leader with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure, SRE, automation, security, and platform scalability for mission-critical systems.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Platform Architecture & Scalability- Design, build, and operate highly scalable, reliable, secure, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure
- Make architectural trade-offs and drive infrastructure decisions for large-scale distributed systems
- Improve platform reliability, deployment velocity, operational excellence, and developer experience
- Drive infrastructure modernization, automation, and cloud-native engineering practices
- Mentor and guide DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering teams
- Demonstrate strong technical leadership and create engineering impact across teams
- Lead AI adoption strategies for engineering productivity, infrastructure automation, and operational efficiency
- Participate in infrastructure, architecture, and security reviews to maintain high engineering standards
- Drive secure and compliant deployment practices aligned with PCI-DSS, SOC2, and related standards
- Lead incident response, production outage management, RCA/post-mortems, and SRE practices
- Ensure platform security, reliability, scalability, and observability across environments
- Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Data, and QA teams to define and execute platform roadmap
- Translate business and engineering requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions
- Manage stakeholder communication related to deliverables, risks, dependencies, and timelines
- Coordinate planning and execution across cross-functional teams
- Drive capacity planning, infrastructure performance tuning, and cloud cost optimization
- Continuously improve monitoring, logging, tracing, and operational visibility
- Enhance deployment pipelines and infrastructure automation practices
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent (B.E / B.Tech / MCA / M.Tech)
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Strong experience working with large-scale distributed production systems in reputed product or fintech organizations
Required Skills
Cloud & Infrastructure
Strong hands-on expertise with AWS cloud infrastructure and services such as:
- ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, WAF, SSM, Secrets Manager, etc.
- Deep understanding of Linux production environments
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, system internals, and asynchronous architectures
- Strong programming/scripting skills in Go, Python, or Shell scripting
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation
Strong experience with CI/CD and GitOps practices using:
GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.
Observability & ReliabilityHands-on experience with observability and monitoring stacks:
- Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and centralized logging
- Strong understanding of performance engineering, reliability, scalability, and production operations
- Experience with Docker, container runtimes, and container image security
Experience managing RDBMS and NoSQL databases at scale:
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Strong understanding of load balancing, API gateways, and low-latency distributed services
- Experience with microservices architecture and service-to-service communication patterns
- Ability to scope, estimate, prioritize, and execute infrastructure/platform releases
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Passion for building scalable engineering systems and solving complex infrastructure challenges
- Prior experience in fintech or payments domain
- Hands-on Kubernetes production experience
- Experience with blockchain, stablecoins, or cryptocurrency infrastructure
- AWS cloud certifications
- Familiarity with PCI-DSS, SOC2, OWASP, static code analysis, and security tooling
- Exposure to data engineering technologies such as ClickHouse and dbt
- Prior experience working in high-growth startup environments
DevOps, CI/CD, Terraform
Good-to-have skillsJenkins, Docker and Kubernetes, observability
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent (B.E / B.Tech / MCA / M.Tech)
- 10+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Strong hands-on expertise with AWS infrastructure and services (ECS, EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, Kinesis, WAF, SSM, Secrets Manager)
- Deep understanding of Linux production environments and distributed systems
- Strong programming/scripting skills in Go, Python, or Shell scripting
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CDK, or CloudFormation
- Experience with CI/CD and GitOps practices (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
- Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), distributed tracing, and centralized logging
- Experience with Docker, container runtimes, and container image security
- Experience managing RDBMS and NoSQL databases at scale (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis)
- Experience operating large-scale distributed production systems and driving reliability, incident response, and RCA/post-mortems
- Proven ability to mentor teams, provide technical leadership, and drive platform roadmap
- Prior fintech/payments experience
- Hands-on Kubernetes production experience
- Experience with blockchain, stablecoins, or cryptocurrency infrastructure
- AWS cloud certifications
- Familiarity with PCI-DSS, SOC2, OWASP, static code analysis, and security tooling
- Exposure to data engineering technologies such as ClickHouse and dbt
- Prior experience working in high-growth startup environments
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The Company
What We Do
Weekday is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps startups hire top-tier engineering and product talent. By leveraging a massive database of white-collar professionals and advanced outreach tools, the company streamlines the hiring process through automated sourcing, AI-driven resume screening, and white-glove contingency services. Their mission is to modernize recruitment by enabling companies to discover and engage passive candidates efficiently, ensuring high-quality hires for critical roles.
