# Staff DevOps Engineer

> Weekday AI · Chennai, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-05-14

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## 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

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/5ADB4E4DA9/apply)

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