The Opportunity

NPCI is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in automation, Kubernetes, Linux systems, and networking. The candidate will design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly resilient infrastructure powering NPCI’s critical digital payment platforms such as UPI, IMPS, RuPay, AePS, BBPS, NACH, and NETC Etc.

The role operates in a mission-critical, high-throughput, low-latency environment, ensuring 99.99%+ availability, transaction integrity, and system resilience aligned with RBI regulatory standards. The engineer will drive automation, improve observability, and enable reliable platform engineering at nation-scale transaction volumes.

Job Details
- Job Title: DevOps Engineer
- Division: Cloud Computing & Data Center (DC)
- Years of Experience: 3–7 years
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Certifications: CKA, CKAD, AWS/Azure/GCP DevOps certifications are a plus.
- Employment Type: Full time
- Location: Hyderabad / Chennai

Key Responsibilities
- Design,



implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for secure and automated deployment across NPCI’s payment platforms (UPI, IMPS, RuPay, etc.).
- Deploy, manage, and optimize production-grade Kubernetes clusters supporting high TPS (transactions per second) workloads.
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems in high-availability Data Center environments.
- Configure and maintain networking for Kubernetes clusters (ingress, load balancing, DNS, service mesh – Istio, Linkerd) ensuring ultra-low latency and fault tolerance.
- Build and enhance Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) for self-service provisioning, improving developer velocity and governance.
- Automate infrastructure and operations using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Pulumi across hybrid and private cloud ecosystems.
- Implement enterprise-grade monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Loki) for real-time observ

📌 Senior Associate Cloud Computing (Hyderabad)
🏢 NPCI
📍 Hyderabad