Position: DevOps Lead – Banking Experience Level: 6 to 10 years (At least 2 years in a leadership role)

Location:
Ghansoli (Thane Belapur Road), Navi Mumbai (Onsite) Work Mode: Onsite (5 days a week + 2 alternate Saturdays per month) Engagement: Full time ROLE OVERVIEW We are hiring a DevOps Lead to own the CI/CD pipelines, container platforms, and infrastructure automation for a core banking application portfolio in Navi Mumbai. In this hands-on onsite role, you will lead a team of engineers, manage production operations and incidents to strict SLAs, and ensure all platforms comply with banking security, audit, and IT governance standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Pipelines & Delivery
• Design and manage enterprise CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps with quality gates and automated deployment across DEV, SIT, UAT, and PROD.
• Establish Git branching workflows, artifact management, and deployment strategies. Platform Engineering
• Build and operate container platforms on Kubernetes or OpenShift using Docker/OCI images, Helm, ingress routing, scaling, RBAC, and secrets management.
• Manage hybrid infrastructure and underlying cloud resources. Automation & Infrastructure as Code
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and configuration management with Ansible.
• Ensure environment builds are fully repeatable from code with automated drift detection. Operations & Observability
• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent tools.
• Lead incident, problem, and change management following ITIL standards; manage SLA compliance and root cause analysis. Security & Governance
• Maintain pipeline and platform security per banking information security standards.
• Manage vulnerability remediation,



container image scanning, system hardening, and audit evidence collection. Team Leadership
• Lead and mentor a team of 3 to 6 DevOps engineers, perform technical reviews, and front client weekly reviews.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and security teams to improve deployment speed and lower failure rates. QUALIFICATIONS & SKILL REQUIREMENTS Must-Have Skills
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Experience:
6 to 10 years overall in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering, including at least 2 years of direct team leadership.
• CI/CD: Hands-on expertise with Jenkins pipeline-as-code, Git workflows, artifact repositories, and deployment gates.
• Containers: Direct experience running Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters in production, Helm charts, ingress, RBAC, and secrets management.
• IaC & Automation: Strong experience with Terraform module/state management and Ansible roles/inventories.
• Observability & OS: Deep Linux administration, shell scripting, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and centralized logging.
• Operations & Security: ITIL incident and change management, vulnerability scanning, system hardening, and audit evidence practices. Bonus Qualifications
• Direct DevOps delivery experience inside a bank or financial institution.
• Production experience with OpenShift clusters.
• Certifications: CKA, CKAD, Terraform Associate, or Red Hat OpenShift.
• Tooling expertise: DevSecOps toolchains (SonarQube, Trivy, Vault) or GitOps tools (Argo CD, Flux). Work Conditions & Clearances
• Must work onsite at Ghansoli, Navi Mumbai on a 5 days + 2 alternate Saturdays per month schedule.
• Must pass standard background verification checks (education, employment, address).

HOW TO APPLY
To apply for this role, submit your updated CV to [email protected] with the subject line: DevOps Lead | Ghansoli |

📌 DevOps Lead, Banking (Navi Mumbai)
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📍 Navi Mumbai