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 Principal DevOps Engineer Profile

- Mandatory (Experience 1) : Must have 10+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned) in B2B SAAS companies

- Mandatory (Experience 2) : Must have worked in Principal / Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role and demonstrated org-level ownership - setting infra roadmap, defining DevOps charter, or structuring the platform function not just domain-level technical ownership

- Mandatory (Experience 3) : Must show evidence of strategic authorship, defined multi-year infra/platform strategy, drove company-wide architectural shifts as an initiator (not implementer), or directly interfaced with VP Eng / CTO / product leadership on infra direction

- Mandatory (Experience 4) : 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 & IaC) : Terraform (must-have), Helm / GitOps, Strong scripting (Python / Go / Bash)

- Mandatory (Tech Skills 4 - Reliability & Observability) : SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), Alerting, on-call, incident management

- Mandatory (Leadership) : Must demonstrate leadership experience in an individual contributor capacity having mentored senior engineers, driven cross-team technical alignment, or anchored org-wide initiatives without having moved into a people management or engineering manager role

- Mandatory (Company) : Strong B2B SaaS product companies only

- Preferred (Education) : B.Tech in Computer Science or related fields

Perks, Benefits and Work Culture :

What We Offer - Join Locus and become part of a visionary team that is redefining logistics through innovation and smart distribution. We provide competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative environment where your expertise will drive both your growth and that of the organization. Locus is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.