The opportunity

NPCI is looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer specializing in automation, Kubernetes, and system reliability engineering, with a solid focus on AI-driven testing and resilience engineering. In this role, you will architect and execute automated reliability testing frameworks, simulate real-world failure scenarios, and ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability of mission-critical payment systems operating at national scale.

This is a high-impact role where you'll work at the intersection of:
- DevOps + SRE + Chaos Engineering + AI-driven testing
- Ensuring platforms are failure-ready, not just failure-resistant

Job details
- Job Title: DevOps Engineer – Reliability & Automation
- Division: Quality Control & Monitoring Systems
- Experience: 3–7 Years
- Employment Type: Full-time
- Location: Hyderabad
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field
- Preferred Certifications: CKA / CKAD / Cloud DevOps (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Work Mode: 5 Days Work From Office (WFO)

Key Responsibilities





DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for application delivery and infrastructure provisioning

• Containerize applications using Docker and orchestrate via Kubernetes

• Deploy, manage, and optimize production-grade Kubernetes clusters

Reliability & Resilience Engineering

• Design and implement automated resilience and reliability testing frameworks

• Develop and execute failure simulation strategies (node failures, latency, network partitioning, etc.)

• Build and run fault injection mechanisms for controlled chaos testing

• Identify system weaknesses and improve fault tolerance & recovery strategies

Monitoring, Observability & Incident Readiness

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Open Telemetry)

• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets

• Enhance observability for distributed systems

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