DevOps Manager

Experience - 12+ Years

Location - Bengaluru

About the Role

As a DevOps Manager, you will be a hands-on leader and strategic influencer, responsible for managing the full DevOps lifecycle—from infrastructure automation to CI / CD, from observability to security practices. You'll lead a team of DevOps engineers and champion the tools, processes, and culture that drive high availability, scalability, and velocity in a regulated fintech environment.

Responsibilities

People & Leadership

Manage and mentor a DevOps team (6–8 engineers), fostering growth, accountability,and performance.

Conduct regular 1 : 1s, performance reviews, and development planning.

Foster a learning and experimentation culture; identify and groom future leaders within the team.

Champion diversity, inclusion, psychological safety, and team motivation.

Platform, Infrastructure & Release Management

Own the end-to-end DevOps lifecycle, including CI / CD, IaC, observability, and incident management.

Lead and coordinate release management activities, ensuring safe, timely, and reliable production deployments.

Act as a gatekeeper for production changes, enforcing proper change management, documentation, and rollback plans.

Oversee cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with a focus on high availability, resilience, and cost optimization.

Oversee cloud-native deployments with Kubernetes, containers, and serverless components.

Guide the creation of runbooks, KBs, help guides, and automation of operational tasks.

DevOps Best Practices

Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.

Optimize CI / CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, etc.) for build, test, and deploy automation.

Ensure adherence to security, compliance (PCI-DSS, ISO 27001), and audit readiness.

Own and improve monitoring / logging / alerting practices using tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.

✅ Essential Skills & Experience

Proven experience in release management, production deployment planning, and execution.

Experience coordinating cross-team production releases including change management and communication.

Strong cloud infrastructure experience (AWS required; multi-cloud a plus).

Expertise in scripting languages (Python, Bash, or JavaScript; Go, Java, or PHP a plus).

Proficient with Kubernetes, containerization, and orchestration at scale.

Hands-on experience with CI / CD, automation, and IaC.

Proven experience managing DevOps in a 24x7 production environment.

Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional initiatives and large-scale deployments.

Nice to Have

Certifications : AWS DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Admin (CKA), or similar.

Experience in regulated fintech environments (PCI-DSS, RBI compliance, etc.).

Experience mentoring remote and globally distributed teams.

Proven success in driving process improvements using DevOps / SRE principles.

Passion for secure infrastructure and proactive threat mitigation.