Staff DevOps Engineer
Sia Partners
Software Engineering
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Job description
We are hiring a Staff DevOps Engineer for the AI Factory product team, responsible for architecting, scaling, and standardizing the cloud and platform foundations that power AI-driven products and internal platforms.
This is a senior individual contributor role with org-level technical influence. The Staff DevOps Engineer operates beyond a single product or squad, shaping platform strategy, reliability standards, CI/CD foundations, and cloud cost governance across the AI Factory. The role is hands-on where it matters most, while also acting as a technical authority and escalation point for complex infrastructure, deployment, and reliability challenges.
Key Responsibilities
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Architect and evolve cloud-native platform foundations supporting AI Factory products and internal platforms
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Define and enforce DevOps standards across environments: CI/CD, deployment patterns, observability, security, and cost controls
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Design scalable infrastructure patterns for multi-service, multi-environment systems
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Act as the final escalation point for complex infrastructure and reliability issue
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Own architecture and best practices across AWS / GCP / Azure (multi-cloud exposure)
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Design highly available, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure
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Drive reliability engineering practices: SLOs, SLIs, incident response, post-mortems, and resilience planning.
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Identify systemic risks early (capacity, cost, security, scaling) and address them proactively
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Architect and standardize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
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Enable safe, repeatable deployments across products and teams
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Improve developer experience by reducing friction in build, test, and deployment workflows.
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Support release strategies such as blue-green, canary, and rollback mechanisms
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Stay hands-on with critical infrastructure code, platform refactors, and high-impact improvements
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Review infrastructure designs and pipeline changes for correctness, simplicity, and long-term sustainability
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Build foundational tooling that enables multiple teams to move faster and safer
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Partner closely with Engineering Managers, Tech Leads, and Product teams to align platform capabilities with delivery needs
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Mentor senior DevOps and Platform engineers through reviews, architecture discussions, and coaching
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Act as a multiplier, improving outcomes across teams without direct people management