Staff Software Engineer - DevOps

Description

Staff Software Engineer - DevOps will be responsible for providing build and release strategy for highly complex as well as parallel and concurrent releases for a software product. The role manages continuous code integration within the SDLC, works independently, and is seen as a technical leader. It demonstrates a deep understanding of concurrent software development, its effect on build management, and releasing builds across versions and environments.

• Own builds, releases and continuous integration process for large and complex releases of a product and at times expands the scope across multiple concurrent releases.
• Own, manage and improve release process, focusing on scale and efficiency, and deploy the right builds across environments.
• Manage key deliverables and mentor junior team members.
• Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.
• Work cross‑functionally with other business departments to align activities and deliverables.
• Develop and enhance the test infrastructure and continuous integration framework used across teams.
• Determine best practices and principles and promote them across the team.
• Learn new build and release techniques and methodologies and train the team in the same.
• Work with developers and stakeholders to deliver quality software through the build and deployment system.
• Partner with and provide direction to fellow team members to diagnose bugs and formulate solutions.
• Use industry best practices to improve build, release, and continuous integration processes.
• Design, implement, and optimize scalable CI/CD pipelines across multi‑cloud and hybrid environments.
• Lead DevOps architecture, infrastructure automation, and administer container orchestration using Kubernetes and IaC tools.
• Drive platform reliability, observability, and performance through proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Contribute in driving initiatives such as defining standards and processes to ensure quality.
• Influence through others; build direct and behind‑the‑scenes support for ideas.
• Proactively identify and remove project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team.
• Share knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill.
• Provide oversight and mentor team members, showing ability to effectively delegate work.
• Apply values, business strategy, policies, precedent, and experience to make complex decisions in ambiguity and with uncertain consequences.

Requirements

Education Qualification: For roles outside the USA, a bachelor's degree with advanced experience is required. For roles in the USA, a bachelor's degree with a minimum of six years of experience is required.

Note: To comply with US immigration and other legal requirements, it is necessary to specify the minimum number of years' experience for any role based within the USA. For roles outside the USA, the JD should focus on the substantive level of experience required and should not specify a minimum number of years. This job description provides a high‑level guide to the role but does not amend or restrict the duties set out in individual employment contracts.

• Demonstrate expert knowledge in developing and executing automated builds and scripts.
• Experience in Bash, Groovy, Terraform, Ansible, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, AWS/Azure, Prometheus, Grafana, SonarQube, Helm, Git, and ELK Stack.
• Expert in developing code for other developers to learn from.
• Strong problem‑solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments.
• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems.
• Skilled in breaking down problems and estimating time for development tasks.
• Demonstrate clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions.
• Able to work under minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance