Staff Devops Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Are you ready to combine your talent for crafting solid data systems and enthusiasm for cutting-edge technology to harness the power of data at Bazaarvoice? We’re looking for a strong database engineer who thrives on building large-scale, robust, distributed data systems and pipelines, who understands the importance of good software engineering practices to get it done. If you’re excited about shaping the future of data at Bazaarvoice, come join us.

🏢 About Bazaarvoice

At Bazaarvoice, we create smart shopping experiences. Through our expansive global network, product-passionate community & enterprise technology, we connect thousands of brands and retailers with billions of consumers. Our solutions enable brands to connect with consumers and collect valuable user-generated content, at an unprecedented scale. This content achieves global reach by leveraging our extensive and ever-expanding retail, social & search syndication network. And we make it easy for brands & retailers to gain valuable business insights from real-time consumer feedback with intuitive tools and dashboards. The result is smarter shopping: loyal customers, increased sales, and improved products.

🎯 The Role

We’re looking for a Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. You are a technical leader who excels at both deep infrastructure expertise and platform thinking. You are passionate about reducing developer friction, enabling self-service capabilities, and building reliable, scalable “paved road” solutions that allow engineering teams to ship software faster and more safely. You will drive the evolution of our DevOps capabilities, mentor senior engineers, influence technical strategy, and collaborate closely with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams. This is a high-impact role focused on ownership of critical infrastructure components, CI/CD excellence, and cloud-native solutions.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and evolve self-service tools, service templates, scaffolding, and paved-road patterns that embody best practices for engineering teams.
• Infrastructure as Code: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure using Terraform (or CloudFormation) at enterprise scale.
• CI/CD Mastery: Lead the design and optimization of robust, automated deployment pipelines supporting our “Single Tool Chain” initiative, incorporating GitOps practices.
• Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: Architect, manage, and scale our EKS environments, including advanced networking, ingress, resource optimization, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Build and enhance developer tooling, platform APIs, and abstractions that significantly improve developer experience and productivity.
• Reliability & Automation: Drive improvements in observability, incident response, chaos engineering, and platform resilience. Write production-grade automation in Python, Go, or Java.
• Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship to Senior and mid-level DevOps/SRE engineers, drive engineering standards, conduct design reviews, and champion DevOps best practices across multiple teams.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Act as a bridge between Development, SRE, Security, and Operations teams while partnering with engineering leadership on roadmap and technical direction.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Experience: Btech with 10–15+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles with a strong focus on large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
• Coding