As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Locus, you will own and evolve the systems that power our platformspanning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability engineering, and developer enablement. This is a hands-on, high-impact leadership role for someone who thinks in platforms, influences architectural direction, and builds leverage across engineering teams. You wont just operate infrastructureyoull design scalable, self serve systems that help teams ship faster, safer, and with confidence at global scale.

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 :

Mandatory Experience :

- Must have 9+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned)

- Must have worked in Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role OR demonstrated ownership of infra/platform across teams (not just execution role)

- Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)

Mandatory Tech Skills :

- Cloud & Infra : AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems

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

- CI/CD & Release : Scalable CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Jenkins), Zero/low downtime deployments

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

Mandatory (Education) : BTech in Computer Science or related fields

Mandatory (Company) : Strong B2B SaaS product companies only

The job is for:

Women candidates preferred