Staff DevOps engineer- Hyderabad

Location: Hyderabad • Experience: Senior Level • Openings: 1

Job description

Job Title – Staff Devops Engineer

Location – Hyderabad

Job Description:

12+ years of solid DevOps and release orchestration experience deploying highly available, rapidly scalable cloud-based services (AWS, GCP, etc.)

10+ years of strong Linux knowledge (RHEL 6/7/8, RHCSA/RHCE, CentOS)

7+ years of experience running Kubernetes, Docker, or OpenShift in production environments

7+ years working with cloud-native tools: container security, service mesh, static analysis, proxies, and networking

7+ years building and managing CI/CD platforms (e.g., Jenkins) with frequent releases

5+ years of experience automating infrastructure with tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, and Jenkins

5+ years of programming experience in cloud operations using Python, Go, Ruby, or Java

Hands-on experience implementing and tuning observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Splunk)

Expertise in Git and version control best practices

Strong troubleshooting skills for distributed systems, infrastructure, and pipelines

Proven communication skills with the ability to align technical work with stakeholder needs

Experience defining and driving SLOs and SLIs in collaboration with engineering and business stakeholder

Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, QA, product, and customer-facing teams

Lead design and architecture for scalable DevOps solutions across Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation

Build and manage secure, resilient, and high-performance infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Ansible

Own and enhance observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk) to support SLO-driven operations

Drive cost optimization, performance tuning, and security best practices across cloud infrastructure

Lead AI enablement initiatives using tools like Amazon Q Developer and Claude for code generation, automation, and developer productivity

Collaborate with engineering teams on incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem culture

Influence system and application SLOs/SLIs in partnership with engineering stakeholders

Implement GitOps and CI/CD practices using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and ArgoCD

Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices across cloud engineering and automation domains

Support platform reliability through sustainable on-call practices and cross-team collaboration

This role needs a 2 hour overlap with the US team in Pacific Hours. Candidates should be open to flexible work timings.