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Job Description :

We are seeking an experienced Consultant DevOps Engineer to lead complex engineering initiatives across mission critical banking and investment platforms. In this strategic and hands-on role, you will be responsible for designing, modernizing, and driving the DevOps roadmap across high-Availability, low-Latency, and risk Sensitive environments, including pre trade, market data, and real-time processing systems.

The ideal candidate brings 13+ years of deep DevOps engineering experience, strong expertise in infrastructure automation, CI/CD modernization, production reliability, observability, and platform governance, along with the ability to influence and guide cross functional engineering teams. This role requires a strong production first mindset, proven technical leadership, and the ability to operate in controlled enterprise environments with high expectations of stability, security, and operational rigor.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, implement, and scale end to-end DevOps frameworks, including CI/CD modernization, automated infrastructure provisioning, and operational tooling across business critical systems.

- Drive infrastructure automation initiatives to improve reliability, consistency, and resilience across distributed and latency-sensitive platforms.

- Architect monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions for highly available, production grade environments, leveraging Python and industry-leading monitoring stacks.

- Define best practices, governance, and engineering standards for DevOps, automation, and operational excellence across global engineering teams.

- Act as a technical consultant to development, infrastructure, platform engineering, and production support teams, guiding them on automation and operational improvements.

- Partner with security, network, and infrastructure teams to ensure compliance with enterprise standards, risk controls, and regulatory requirements.

- Lead incident reviews, stabilize production platforms, and drive root cause analysis with a focus on long-term remediation and operational maturity.

- Oversee production readiness, deployment automation, environment consistency, and configuration management across Unix/Linux ecosystems.

- Manage obsolescence remediation and vulnerability management across infrastructure and application environments in line with enterprise risk and security standards.

- Coordinate and optimize server provisioning, decommissioning, patching cycles, and environment setup activities in line with enterprise hygiene standards.

- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across applications, services, scripts, batch jobs, and market data scripts/pipelines.

- Support and validate firewall, and network flow requirements, ensuring secure and compliant connectivity across source to-destination systems.

- Implement operational controls, audit traceability, and deployment discipline required for financial infrastructures.

- Lead disaster recovery (DR) design validation, failover readiness, and operational resilience exercises.

Required Qualifications :

- Bachelors degree (BE / B.Tech.) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.

- 8+ years of hands-on Python programming experience. Tooling, maintenance and debugging of python script/application.

- 13+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, infrastructure automation, production activities, and CI/CD in enterprise environments.

- Strong hands-on experience in :

1. Unix/Linux systems : Unix/Linux systems, including Unix commands, Shell scripting, System utilities, Server-level troubleshooting, and administration.

 

2. Containerization & Orchestration : Docker, Kubernetes.

 

3. CI/CD Platforms : GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent.

 

4. Observability & Monitoring : Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch, or similar.

- Proven experience with incident management, production issue analysis, and production reliability engineering.

- Strong understanding of production operations in a controlled enterprise environment, including release discipline, operational governance, and platform stability.

- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence cross functional teams across multiple geographies.

- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and a strong production first mindset.

Good to Have :

- Experience in banking, trading, investment platforms, or market data systems.

- Hands-on exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.

- Knowledge in weekend infrastructure checks, disaster recovery (DR) exercises, failover readiness, and platform resilience activities.

- Knowledge of Java-based enterprise applications and ability to support Java workloads at the DevOps level.

- Experience in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and hybrid cloud automation

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