On-Premises DevOps Lead
Experience: 5 - 8 years | Location: Mumbai | Industry: Banking / Financial Services preferred
About the Role
We're looking for a hands-on On-Premises DevOps Lead to build and run a secure, highly automated DevOps platform in our data centres for mission-critical banking applications. You'll own the DevOps strategy, CI/CD, container platforms (OpenShift/Kubernetes), infrastructure automation, DevSecOps and production reliability. You'll also lead a team of DevOps, platform and automation engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- DevOps strategy and platform: Define the DevOps 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, GitLab CI, GitHub Enterprise or Azure DevOps 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 OpenShift 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/OpenSearch 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 OpenShift, including upgrades, networking, ingress, storage and RBAC
- Enterprise CI/CD with Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps Server or GitHub Enterprise, plus Maven/Gradle and Nexus/Artifactory
- Ansible and/or Terraform, plus Python and Bash
- Strong Linux administration, with working knowledge of virtualisation, networking, DNS, load balancing and storage
- DevSecOps 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
- GitOps with Argo CD or OpenShift GitOps
- Hybrid cloud exposure
- Certifications: CKA, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration, RHCSA/RHCE, Terraform Associate
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, IT or Engineering
- 5-8 years in DevOps, 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