Role Details
Employment Type: CONTRACT (6 to 12 months contract)
Work Model: Remote

Must-have experience
10+ years in platform / DevOps / MLOps or AI engineering, with a track record of putting solutions into live production
Hands-on Kubernetes, Docker / containerisation, and container security in production.
On-premise / sovereign /in-region deployment experience not cloud-only. Data residency is non-negotiable.
Proven management of software / AI vendors and integration ofthird-party systems ideally in a bank, telco or government.
Able to read a vendor's architecture and identify what will not work robust enough technically not to be bluffed.
Experienced in managing AI Projects, as a project manager





Purpose of the role Own the path that takes AI from a delivered solution to a secured, monitored production system running in-country and make that path rapid. With delivery partner-led, this role is the bank's technical owner of vendor delivery and deployment: it holds vendors to the bank's security, residency and quality standards, integrates their solutions into our workplace, and ensures the bank is never dependent on a vendor's pace or claims.

This is the role that turns a blocked pipeline into a working one. Its single measure of success is deployment speed how quickly validated AI reaches production, safely.

📌 Remote Senior Ai Platform & Delivery Lead Contract Opening Mumbai
🏢 Covansis IT Services
📍 Mumbai