Lead DevOps Engineer - CI/CD Pipeline (9-14 yrs)

You'll own the systems that power Locus from infrastructure and automation to CI/CD and reliability engineering. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who can see the big picture, drive architectural decisions, and enable engineering teams to ship faster, safer, and smarter. You won't just maintain systems, you'll build leverage across teams by leading with a platform mindset and creating scalable, self-serve infrastructure.

- Infrastructure at Scale : Design and evolve our cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes), ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency across regions and products.

- Platform and 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 and 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 and Governance : Integrate DevSecOps practices from policy-as-code and automated audits to secure secrets management and vulnerability scanning.

- Mentorship and Thought Leadership : Guide and mentor DevOps and SRE engineers. Partner closely with platform developers on infrastructure strategy, deployment patterns, and production readiness.

Requirements :

- Experience : 10+ years in DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure roles, ideally in SaaS, product-led, or scale-up environments.

- Cloud and Infra Expertise : Deep knowledge of AWS services, Kubernetes (EKS), VPC networking, container orchestration, and autoscaling patterns.

- Automation and IaC : Proficiency in Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and scripting (Python/Go/Bash). You automate first, troubleshoot second.

- Delivery Mindset : Experience of running fast, secure, zero-downtime deployments at scale and improving release velocity without trading off stability.

- Reliability Thinking : Understanding of SRE principles, SLOs, failure domains, and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

- Collaboration : Strong cross-functional communication. You're as comfortable in architecture reviews as in incident retrospectives.

- Bonus Points : Experience with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), internal platform engineering, or multi-tenant architectures.