About the role

The Lead DevOps Engineer will own the cloud, platform, and automation strategy while governing infrastructure standards and security posture. They will also lead the design of resilient systems and mentor engineering teams to drive architectural excellence.

What they look for

Python AWS DevOps Terraform Ansible Jenkins Docker Kubernetes OpenShift Databricks Bash CI/CD Observability SRE FinOps AIOps

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 7 years of experience with deep expertise in AWS, multi-cloud environments, and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform. Strong proficiency in scripting, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipeline management is essential for this hands-on leadership role.

Full description

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

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

Must-have skillsPython, AWS, DevOps

Good-to-have skillsCI/CD, Dockers, Databrick