Lead DevOps Engineer

Notice Period : Candidates available to join within 30 days

Location : Hyderabad

About the Role :

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically strong DevOps Engineer to lead the design, automation, modernization, and operation of secure, resilient, and highly scalable cloud platforms supporting mission-critical FinTech applications.

The ideal candidate will bring 9 years of experience across AWS Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, cloud migration, automation, and production operations, with a proven ability to lead complex cloud transformation initiatives and collaborate effectively across Engineering, Architecture, Security, QA, and Product teams.

This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can define cloud and DevOps standards, drive automation, improve platform reliability, strengthen security, and mentor engineering teams while remaining deeply involved in architecture and implementation.

Key Responsibilities :

AWS Cloud &

• Architecture :
• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure for enterprise and FinTech workloads.
• Define cloud architecture standards covering compute, networking, identity, security, storage, observability, and disaster recovery.
• Design and manage AWS environments using services including EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, S3, EBS, Lambda, Auto Scaling, SQS, SNS, and CloudWatch.
• Establish and maintain AWS multi-account architectures using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Landing Zone principles.
• Drive cloud platform standardization, automation, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Evaluate existing infrastructure and identify opportunities for modernization, performance improvement, and cost optimization.

Infrastructure as Code &

• Automation :
• Lead the adoption and implementation of Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code across cloud environments.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and standardized infrastructure patterns to improve consistency and eliminate configuration drift.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, operational tasks, and environment management.
• Promote automation-first engineering practices across the DevOps organization.

Kubernetes &

• Container Platforms :
• Lead the design, implementation, and operational management of Amazon EKS and Kubernetes platforms.
• Establish Kubernetes standards for deployments, services, ingress, RBAC, namespaces, secrets, ConfigMaps, persistent storage, health probes, autoscaling, and high availability.
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Amazon ECR, EKS, and ECS.
• Implement scalable deployment strategies including rolling deployments, rolling rollbacks, self-healing, horizontal pod autoscaling, and cluster autoscaling.
• Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes, networking, application, and infrastructure issues in production environments.
• Establish best practices for Kubernetes security, reliability, observability, and platform lifecycle management.

CI/CD :

• Design, implement, and continuously improve enterprise CI/CD platforms using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Git, Maven, and SonarQube.
• Develop standardized pipelines supporting automated build, code quality, security validation, deployment, rollback, and release processes.
• Modernize legacy CI/CD pipelines and reduce manual deployment activities through automation.
• Lead source-control and CI/CD platform migrations, including repository migration, integrations, credentials, webhooks, and pipeline modernization.
• Implement deployment strategies that support controlled, repeatable, and low-risk production releases.
• Partner with development teams to embed DevOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Security, Governance &

• DevSecOps :
• Build security into cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and operational processes.
• Implement AWS IAM, RBAC, network security, least-privilege access, security groups, and policy-based controls.
• Support secure AWS multi-account governance.
• Promote secure infrastructure and deployment practices across engineering teams.
• Integrate automated code quality and security controls into CI/CD workflows.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes support auditability, traceability, controlled change, and operational risk reduction.

Monitoring, Reliability &

• Production Operations :
• Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using Amazon CloudWatch, Splunk, and Grafana.
• Design dashboards and operational metrics for infrastructure, applications, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD environments.
• Lead production incident investigation, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and remediation.
• Improve platform availability, reliability, scalability, and recovery capabilities.
• Support incident, problem, change, and release management processes.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce operational risk, deployment failures, and mean time to recovery.

Technical Leadership :

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering teams.
• Define engineering standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, and DevOps best practices.
• Conduct architecture and technical design reviews.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering, QA, Security, and Release Management teams.
• Lead complex technical initiatives from architecture and planning through implementation and production adoption.
• Champion a culture of automation, ownership, reliability, security, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Experience :

• 8 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience leading cloud migration and modernization programs.
• Experience designing and operating production Kubernetes/EKS platforms.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform.
• Experience building enterprise CI/CD frameworks and deployment automation.
• Experience with highly available and business-critical applications.
• Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments such as FinTech, Banking, Payments, Insurance, or Financial Services is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
• Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.