On-Premises Dev Ops Lead

Experience: 5 - 8 years | Location: Mumbai | Industry: Banking / Financial Services preferred

About the Role

We're looking for a hands-on On-Premises Dev Ops Lead to build and run a secure, highly automated Dev Ops platform in our data centres for mission-critical banking applications. You'll own the Dev Ops strategy, CI/CD, container platforms (Open Shift/Kubernetes), infrastructure automation, Dev SecOps and production reliability. You'll also lead a team of Dev Ops, platform and automation engineers.

Key Responsibilities

- Dev Ops strategy and platform: Define the Dev Ops reference architecture, standards and roadmap. Build highly available platforms across data centres with DR and business continuity. Create golden paths for application onboarding.
- CI/CD: Build standard pipelines for Java/Spring Boot microservices using Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Git Hub Enterprise or Azure Dev Ops Server. Embed quality gates, SCA and vulnerability scanning. Automate promotion from dev to production, with blue-green, canary and rollback strategies.
- Container platforms: Design and administer Red Hat Open Shift or upstream Kubernetes, covering registries, upgrades, capacity and scheduling. Standardise Helm deployments, configuration and secrets integration.
- Infrastructure automation: Automate provisioning and configuration with Ansible, Terraform, Python and Shell. Work with infrastructure teams on Linux, virtualisation, storage, networking, load balancing, firewalls and certificates.
- Security and compliance: Implement RBAC, PAM integration, secrets management, certificate rotation and least-privilege access. Integrate SAST, DAST, dependency and image scanning. Ensure end-to-end traceability, segregation of duties and audit-ready releases.
- Observability and SRE: Build monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search or Splunk. Define SLOs, lead incident response and RCA, and test backup, DR and failover.




- Continuous improvement: Eliminate manual work across build, deploy, provisioning and release. Improve deployment frequency, lead time and reliability.
- Leadership: Mentor the team, set engineering and code review standards, lead design reviews and complex issue resolution, and report platform health and risks to leadership.

Must-Have Skills

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably Red Hat Open Shift, including upgrades, networking, ingress, storage and RBAC
- Enterprise CI/CD with Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops Server or Git Hub Enterprise, plus Maven/Gradle and Nexus/Artifactory
- Ansible and/or Terraform, plus Python and Bash
- Solid Linux administration, with working knowledge of virtualisation, networking, DNS, load balancing and storage
- Dev SecOps tooling, secrets and certificate management, and audit-ready release management
- Observability and SRE practices: incident management, RCA and DR
- Experience in a regulated environment, preferably banking or financial services, with awareness of RBI IT governance requirements

Good to Have

- Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, API gateways and enterprise middleware
- Git Ops with Argo CD or Open Shift Git Ops
- Hybrid cloud exposure
- Certifications: CKA, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Open Shift Administration, RHCSA/RHCE, Terraform Associate

Qualifications

- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, IT or Engineering
- 5-8 years in Dev Ops, platform engineering or infrastructure automation in enterprise on-premises environments
- Proven experience leading technical teams and influencing cross-functional stakeholders

Success Measures

Success in this role means:

- More releases going through standard pipelines
- Fewer deployment failures and rollbacks
- Shorter lead time to production
- High availability of the toolchain and platforms
- Lower MTTR
- Fewer audit findings
- Less configuration drift
- Broad adoption of self-service pipelines and platform patterns

📌 On-Premises DevOps Lead (India)
🏢 Arminus
📍 India