Job Title: Lead, DevOps and Platform Engineering

Company: Kotak Securities Limited

Location: Mumbai

Experience: 10–15 years

About the Role

Lead the platform engineering function supporting Kotak Securities’ technology transformation across trading, risk, market data, observability, data platforms, back-office systems, and datacenter migration. Build the platform team and own compute infrastructure, delivery pipelines, infrastructure definitions, and instrumentation standards.

Key Responsibilities

- Define and manage compute platforms across Kubernetes and virtual machines, including cluster architecture, networking, workload isolation, and resource governance.
- Own infrastructure as code across cloud and on-premise environments, including reusable modules, state management, drift detection, and policy enforcement.
- Establish performance standards for latency-sensitive trading workloads, including CPU pinning, NUMA awareness, kernel tuning, and network optimization.
- Secure the container supply chain through image hardening, vulnerability checks, artifact signing, and provenance.
- Design CI/CD and GitOps pipelines with progressive delivery, trading-aware deployment windows, and rollback strategies.
- Establish service level objectives, error budgets, incident management, and postmortem practices integrated with change management.
- Own observability architecture, including instrumentation, tracing, metrics, logging, retention, and ITSM integration.
- Drive capacity planning and performance testing for peak market events and pre-open traffic surges.
- Lead platform workstreams for datacenter migration,



including hybrid connectivity, environment parity, and cutover planning.
- Own platform security, secrets management, certificates, workload identity, privileged access, and audit readiness.
- Optimize infrastructure costs through rightsizing, commitment planning, and service-level cost attribution.
- Build, lead, and mentor the platform engineering team.

Technical Skills

- Deep production expertise in Kubernetes, including control plane operations, upgrades, CNI, service mesh, scheduling, autoscaling, and failure analysis.
- Strong experience with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools at scale.
- Strong cloud networking and security expertise on AWS or comparable platforms, including VPCs, private connectivity, load balancing, DNS, and IAM.
- Deep Linux systems knowledge, including kernel tuning, TCP behavior, filesystems, I/O, and diagnostics using perf or eBPF-based tools.
- Production programming experience in Go, Python, or an equivalent language for platform tooling, operators, or controllers.
- Experience designing organization-wide CI/CD and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent tools.
- Strong understanding of OpenTelemetry, APM, logging pipelines, trace sampling,



and metric cardinality management.
- Experience with policy-as-code tools such as OPA or Sentinel.

Required Experience

- 10 or more years in infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability roles, including at least 3 years leading engineers.
- Experience operating critical systems where downtime has direct commercial or regulatory consequences.
- Proven ability to deliver within audit, change control, and segregation of duties requirements.

Preferred Experience

- Capital markets or payments infrastructure, including exchange connectivity, market data distribution, colocation, and clock synchronization.
- Large-scale datacenter or colocation migrations, including hybrid routing, BGP, and firewall transitions.
- Production ownership of Postgres, Redis, Kafka, or MongoDB, including replication, failover, and backup verification.
- Exposure to SEBI CSCRF, RBI cybersecurity guidelines, or comparable frameworks.
- Experience building an observability practice from the ground up.

Why Kotak Securities

- Business-funded technology transformation with a multi-year roadmap.
- Full time opportunities on a long-term, in-house engineering team.
- Internal mobility across banking, broking, asset management, and insurance.
- Structured recognition, long-service, and returnship programmes.
- An engineering environment focused on auditability, resilience, and regulatory governance.
- A culture grounded in approachability, mutual respect, transparency, entrepreneurial thinking, and ethical conduct.

📌 Lead DevOps Engineer | CTC Upto 60-65 LPA (Mumbai)
🏢 Round1 Jobs
📍 Mumbai