Staff Devops Engineer

Location : Bangalore; (Full Time, Onsite)

Battle-tested in 350+ deployments across 30+ countries, Locus is an agentic Transportation Management System for all-mile, all-channel, trusted by enterprises like Unilever, Nestlé, and Siam Makro. 

The platform unifies orders, capacity, and carrier networks into one living plan, aligning planning, execution, and settlement so promises become proof. AI co-pilots with guardrails surface risk early and recommend the next best move to protect SLAs and reduce empty miles.

 In 2025, Locus joined the Ingka Group (IKEA Retail) family, marking a major milestone in our journey. Backed by the scale and strength of IKEA, we continue to operate independently while accelerating our mission to make global supply chains faster, smarter, and more sustainable.

Since 2015, Locus has been on a mission to make logistics decision-making intelligent, sustainable, and real-world ready. Our platform has powered billions of deliveries across 30 + countries for global enterprises, driving measurable impact in cost savings, carbon reduction, and SLA performance. With the strength of the IKEA ecosystem behind us, we’re scaling that impact even further.

Headquartered in Bangalore, with teams across the U.S., U.K., UAE, and Southeast Asia, Locus brings together 170 + engineers, designers, and problem-solvers united by a single goal: to reinvent how the world moves goods.

We look for people who are:

• Global in mindset: curious about diverse markets and ideas.
  
  

• Unrelenting in drive: energized by complex challenges.
  
  

• Intelligent in approach: analytical, creative, and thoughtful.
  
  

• Dynamic in execution: adaptive and decisive in fast-moving contexts.
  
  

• Exact in craft: detail-oriented and committed to excellence.

About the Role:

As a Staff DevOps Engineer at Locus, you will own and evolve the systems that power our platform—spanning 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 won’t just operate infrastructure—you’ll 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.

Must Haves:

• Experience:
   9+ years in DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure roles, ideally in SaaS, product-led or scale-up environments.

• Cloud & Infra Expertise:
  Deep knowledge of AWS services, Kubernetes (EKS), VPC networking, container orchestration, and autoscaling patterns.

• Automation & IaC:
  Proficiency in Terraform, Helm, GitOps, and scripting (Python/Go/Bash). You automate first, troubleshoot second.

• Delivery Mindset:
  Experience of running fast, secure, zero-downtime deployments at scale — and improving release velocity without trading off stability.

• Reliability Thinking:
  Understanding of SRE principles, SLOs, failure domains, and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).

• Collaboration:
  Strong cross-functional communication. You’re as comfortable in architecture reviews as in incident retrospectives.

• Bonus Points:
  Experience with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), internal platform engineering, or multi-tenant architectures.

What We Offer

Join Locus and become part of a visionary team that is redefining logistics through innovation and smart distribution. We provide competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a collaborative environment where your expertise will drive both your growth and that of the organization.

Locus is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.