Lead Site Reliability Engineer or Platform Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 5000000 - Rs 10000000 (ie INR 50 - 100 LPA)

Min Experience: 11+ years
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
JobType: full-time

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead DevOps/Platform (Native AI) Engineer to join the technology division of our organization. This role is responsible for the reliability, security, scalability, and engineering excellence of our cloud-native technology platform leveraging various platforms, systems and tooling.

You will lead infrastructure design, zero-touch deployment programs, observability and incident response, policy-as-code governance, and developer self-service — while advancing next-generation platform capabilities including governed automation, secure tool integrations for operational workflows, retrieval-augmented operational context, and production-grade evaluation and guardrails for emerging Agentic AI platform use cases.

The ideal candidate blends deep platform engineering knowledge with industry best practices, cutting-edge technology trends plus hands-on experience in one or few of latest AI capabilities. This is a technical leadership role: approximately 60% technical ownership, 30% stakeholder management, and 10% people leadership (when applicable).