About CIBC:

CIBC is a leading North American bank, with a history of more than 150 years of living our purpose - to help make your ambition a reality. Client relationships are at the center of our strategy, and our growth is enabled by a highly engaged and connected global team. From digital banking to community impact, we’re proud to drive progress for our clients and our communities.

Recognized for our culture, award-winning innovation and community investment, CIBC continues to evolve by putting people and progress at the centre of everything we do.

About CIBC India:

CIBC India is a technology and operations hub in Hyderabad, where you’ll be part of our highly engaged and global team, and play a central role in supporting our growth. Whether you’re driving innovation in digital banking or streamlining client onboarding, you’ll be part of a culture recognized for excellence and investment in people. At CIBC India, people and progress are at the center of what we do: you’ll develop skills, collaborate with industry leaders, and see your ideas realized in a culture that values progress and belonging.

We provide cutting-edge resources, ongoing learning, and a supportive environment where people come first. If you’re ready to create meaningful change and build your future, CIBC India is where your ambition meets opportunity.

What CIBC India Offers:

At CIBC India, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career that goes well beyond your compensation.

We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including competitive fixed pay, performance-based incentive programs, a family-first benefits program, employer contributions for your retirement, attractive time off and leave offerings, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.

Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients worldwide

We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day, a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.

How You’ll Succeed (responsibilities):

DevOps Strategy and Roadmap:

- Develop and communicate the strategic roadmap for DevOps practices, tooling, and enablement to support enterprise technology objectives.
- Align DevOps architecture direction with Enterprise Architecture standards, roadmaps, and enterprise-wide strategy to ensure consistency and scalability.
- Lead enterprise DevOps transformation by promoting cultural, process, and technology changes that improve software delivery effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, and modernize the software delivery lifecycle through enterprise tooling and reusable design patterns.
- Architecture and Solution Design
- Make architectural decisions that streamline and optimize the enterprise software delivery toolchain and its integrations.
- Design and implement scalable CI/CD frameworks using GitHub Actions and related technologies to improve deployment consistency, efficiency, and control.
- Define reusable architectural patterns, workflows, and automation standards that support broad adoption across technology teams.




- Guide the design of custom actions, scripts, and integration approaches to meet enterprise and team-specific delivery requirements.

Toolchain Governance and Administration:

- Oversee the strategic administration and integration approach for key platforms including GitHub, JFrog Artifactory, and SonarQube.
- Ensure enterprise tooling is effectively embedded into the development lifecycle and aligned to engineering, operational, and governance requirements.
- Support the evolution of toolchain capabilities by evaluating platform needs, integration patterns, and improvement opportunities.
- Establish standards and recommendations for secure, scalable, and efficient platform usage across development and operations teams.
- Compliance, Risk, and Audit Enablement
- Develop and implement strategies to support compliance with internal and external audit requirements related to access management, controls, and sensitive information handling.
- Ensure architectural designs and toolchain practices align with applicable governance, security, and control expectations.
- Recommend and support solutions that improve traceability, policy adherence, and secure software delivery practices across the enterprise.
- Partner with stakeholders to strengthen controls within DevOps processes while maintaining efficient developer experience.
- Mentorship, Advisory, and Cross-Functional Leadership
- Mentor and guide DevOps engineers and partner teams by sharing knowledge, promoting best practices, and supporting technical growth.
- Provide senior advisory support to application development, quality assurance, operations, infrastructure, and business teams on DevOps architecture and toolchain adoption.
- Provide hands-on support to resolve onboarding, configuration, and workflow challenges in support of successful tool adoption
- Collaborate with team leads across technology groups to deliver high-quality, scalable, and practical engineering solutions.
- Foster a collaborative and innovative environment that encourages experimentation, continuous learning, and shared ownership of outcomes.

Innovation and Continuous Improvement:

- Challenge existing delivery approaches and identify opportunities to improve deployment processes, engineering productivity, and operational reliability.
- Advance production monitoring, infrastructure automation, and platform engineering capabilities through strategic design and experimentation.
- Evaluate emerging practices and technologies to improve the enterprise DevOps ecosystem and future-state architecture.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the onboarding and lifecycle experience for internal technology teams.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

- This role collaborates closely with application development leaders and teams to define and enable enterprise DevOps architecture, standards, and delivery patterns.
- This role partners with quality assurance, operations, and infrastructure teams to design integrated, scalable, and supportable toolchain solutions.




- This role works with business units and technology leaders to understand needs, prioritize roadmap initiatives, and ensure solutions align with enterprise objectives.
- This role collaborates with the Enterprise Architecture team to maintain alignment between DevOps tooling strategy and broader technology roadmaps.
- This role interacts with engineering and platform teams to guide implementation of CI/CD frameworks, workflow standards, and automation capabilities.
- This role may work with security, risk, compliance, and audit stakeholders to support governance, access management, and control requirements across the software delivery lifecycle.

Experience: 10+ years of experience

Who You Are (skills/qualifications):

Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Must Have Skills:

- 10+ years of experience in DevOps platform architecture, software design, or related roles with strong focus on strategic planning and architectural design.
- Deep knowledge of enterprise DevOps practices, software delivery lifecycle design, and CI/CD architecture.
- Strong experience leading administration and strategic integration of GitHub Enterprise, JFrog Artifactory, and SonarQube.
- Advanced experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and reusable workflow patterns.
- Experience designing scalable solutions for containerized and cloud-native environments.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or shell scripting such as Bash or PowerShell.
- Proven ability to make sound architectural decisions that improve scalability, reliability, governance, and developer experience.
- Strong mentoring and technical leadership capability, with experience guiding engineers and fostering collaborative team environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Proven solution development experience with strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and ability to translate complex requirements into practical architectural solutions.
- Experience with GitHub Advanced Security.
- Experience with Ansible, Docker, Helm, OpenShift, AKS, and broader Kubernetes ecosystem tooling.
- Experience with system administration and platform engineering practices in enterprise environments.
- Experience building strategic roadmaps and target-state architectures in partnership with enterprise architecture functions.
- Continuous improver: You proactively spot risks, inefficiencies, and quality gaps—and you take ownership to fix them with proven ability to champion change.
- Robust collaborative skills with ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical partners, and you can influence without authority to drive better outcomes.
- Experience in audit, compliance, access control, and sensitive information management within DevOps or platform architecture contexts.

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📌 Solution Lead - DevOps-29183] (Hyderabad)
🏢 CIBC India
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