Position: DevOps Lead – Banking

Experience Level: 6 to 10 years (At least 2 years in a leadership role)

Location: Ghansoli (Thane Belapur Road), Navi Mumbai (Onsite)

Work Mode: Onsite (5 days a week + 2 alternate Saturdays per month)

Engagement: Full-time

ROLE OVERVIEW

We are hiring a DevOps Lead to own the CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and infrastructure automation for a core banking application portfolio in Navi Mumbai. In this hands-on onsite role, you will lead a team of engineers, manage production operations and incidents to strict SLAs, and ensure all platforms comply with banking security, audit, and IT governance standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Pipelines & Delivery

Design and manage enterprise CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps with quality gates and automated deployment across DEV, SIT, UAT, and PROD.
Establish Git branching workflows, artifact management, and deployment strategies.

Platform Engineering

Build and operate container platforms on Kubernetes or OpenShift using Docker/OCI images, Helm, ingress routing, scaling, RBAC, and secrets management.
Manage hybrid infrastructure and underlying cloud resources.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration management with Ansible.
Ensure environment builds are fully repeatable from code with automated drift detection.

Operations & Observability

Design monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent tools.
Lead incident, problem, and change management following ITIL standards; manage SLA compliance and root cause analysis.

Security & Governance

Maintain pipeline and platform security per banking information security standards.
Manage vulnerability remediation, container image scanning, system hardening, and audit evidence collection.

Team Leadership

Lead and mentor a team of 3 to 6 DevOps engineers, perform technical reviews, and front client weekly reviews.
Collaborate with development, QA, and security teams to improve deployment speed and lower failure rates.

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILL REQUIREMENTS

Must-Have Skills

Experience: 6 to 10 years overall in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, including at least 2 years of direct team leadership.
CI/CD: Hands-on expertise with Jenkins pipeline-as-code, Git workflows, artifact repositories, and deployment gates.
Containers: Direct experience running Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters in production, Helm charts, ingress, RBAC, and secrets management.
IaC & Automation: Strong experience with Terraform module/state management and Ansible roles/inventories.
Observability & OS: Deep Linux administration, shell scripting, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and centralized logging.
Operations & Security: ITIL incident and change management, vulnerability scanning, system hardening, and audit evidence practices.

Bonus Qualifications

Direct DevOps delivery experience inside a bank or financial institution.
Production experience with OpenShift clusters.
Certifications: CKA, CKAD, Terraform Associate, or Red Hat OpenShift.
Tooling expertise: DevSecOps toolchains (SonarQube, Trivy, Vault) or GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux).

Work Conditions & Clearances

Must work onsite at Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai on a 5 days + 2 alternate Saturdays per month schedule.
Must pass standard background verification checks (education, employment, address).

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for this role, submit your updated CV to hr@sayzo.in with the subject line: DevOps Lead | Ghansoli |

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