Weekday (YC W21)

Staff DevOps Engineer

Weekday (YC W21)  •  Chennai, IN (Onsite)  •  4 days ago
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Job Description

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 10 years

Location: Chennai

JobType: full-time

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with engineering, QA, and internal technology teams to design and sustain a resilient, scalable, and secure build and testing environment.
  • Improve and maintain tools utilized for test execution, orchestration, and scheduling throughout development workflows.
  • Regularly evaluate system performance, detect bottlenecks, and apply enhancements to ensure system stability and efficiency.
  • Oversee infrastructure lifecycle tasks, including performing updates, upgrades, and applying security patches.
  • Deploy and manage monitoring solutions to observe infrastructure health, system behavior, and application performance.
  • Lead automation efforts using configuration management tools to optimize provisioning and deployment processes.
  • Create and update comprehensive technical documentation detailing system architecture, procedures, and troubleshooting methods.

Required Skills:
Essential Qualifications:

  • Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the capability to work effectively across engineering and IT teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
  • About 10 or more years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or comparable roles.
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience in leading engineers or managing technical projects.
  • Strong proficiency in Linux system administration and shell scripting.
  • Advanced programming skills in Python.
  • Practical experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or SaltStack.
  • Knowledge of container ecosystems and tools like Docker, Kubernetes, or equivalent platforms.
  • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
  • Excellent analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Must-have skills

DevOps

Linux

Python

Good-to-have skills

Configuration Management

Docker

Kubernetes

Weekday (YC W21)

About Weekday (YC W21)

AI recruiter that runs outbound sourcing campaigns to find top talent. At Weekday, we have built the most accurate database of talent (250mn+ people in US & India with contact data), we run outbound campaigns to identify top talent for any role you might be hiring for. We generate the highest response rates (30-40%) on our campaigns making sourcing talent as easy as making a job posting. We are backed by Y-Combinator and were also ranked #1 on Product Hunt.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
San Fransisco, CA
Year Founded
2021
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