Lead DevOps Engineer

Notice Period : Candidates available to join within 30 days Location : Hyderabad About the Role : We are seeking a highly experienced and technically strong DevOps Engineer to lead the design, automation, modernization, and operation of secure, resilient, and highly scalable cloud platforms supporting mission-critical FinTech applications. The ideal candidate will bring 9+ years of experience across AWS Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, cloud migration, automation, and production operations, with a proven ability to lead complex cloud transformation initiatives and collaborate effectively across Engineering, Architecture, Security, QA, and Product teams. This role requires a hands-on technical leader who can define cloud and DevOps standards, drive automation, improve platform reliability, strengthen security, and mentor engineering teams while remaining deeply involved in architecture and implementation. Key Responsibilities : AWS Cloud & Architecture : - Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of secure, scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure for enterprise and FinTech workloads. - Define cloud architecture standards covering compute, networking, identity, security, storage, observability, and disaster recovery. - Design and manage AWS environments using services including EC2, EKS, ECS, ECR, VPC, IAM, ALB, Route 53, CloudFront, S3, EBS, Lambda, Auto Scaling, SQS, SNS, and CloudWatch. - Establish and maintain AWS multi-account architectures using AWS Organizations, Control Tower, and Landing Zone principles. - Drive cloud platform standardization, automation, scalability, resilience, and operational excellence. - Evaluate existing infrastructure and identify opportunities for modernization, performance improvement, and cost optimization. Infrastructure as Code & Automation : - Lead the adoption and implementation of Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code across cloud environments. - Develop reusable Terraform modules and standardized infrastructure patterns to improve consistency and eliminate configuration drift. - Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, deployment, operational tasks, and environment management. - Promote automation-first engineering practices across the DevOps organization. Kubernetes & Container Platforms : - Lead the design, implementation, and operational management of Amazon EKS and Kubernetes platforms. - Establish Kubernetes standards for deployments, services, ingress, RBAC, namespaces, secrets, ConfigMaps, persistent storage, health probes, autoscaling, and high availability. - Manage containerized workloads using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Amazon ECR, EKS, and ECS. - Implement scalable deployment strategies including rolling deployments, rolling rollbacks, self-healing, horizontal pod autoscaling, and cluster autoscaling. - Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes, networking, application, and infrastructure issues in production environments. - Establish best practices for Kubernetes security, reliability, observability, and platform lifecycle management. CI/CD : - Design, implement, and continuously improve enterprise CI/CD platforms using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Git, Maven, and SonarQube. - Develop standardized pipelines supporting automated build, code quality, security validation, deployment, rollback, and release processes. - Modernize legacy CI/CD pipelines and reduce manual deployment activities through automation. - Lead source-control and CI/CD platform migrations, including repository migration, integrations, credentials, webhooks, and pipeline modernization. - Implement deployment strategies that support controlled, repeatable, and low-risk production releases. - Partner with development teams to embed DevOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle. Security, Governance & DevSecOps : - Build security into cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and operational processes. - Implement AWS IAM, RBAC, network security, least-privilege access, security groups, and policy-based controls. - Support secure AWS multi-account governance. - Promote secure infrastructure and deployment practices across engineering teams. - Integrate automated code quality and security controls into CI/CD workflows. - Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes support auditability, traceability, controlled change, and operational risk reduction. Monitoring, Reliability & Production Operations : - Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using Amazon CloudWatch, Splunk, and Grafana. - Design dashboards and operational metrics for infrastructure, applications, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD environments. - Lead production incident investigation, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and remediation. - Improve platform availability, reliability, scalability, and recovery capabilities. - Support incident, problem, change, and release management processes. - Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce operational risk, deployment failures, and mean time to recovery. Technical Leadership : - Provide technical leadership and mentorship to DevOps, Cloud, and Platform Engineering teams. - Define engineering standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, and DevOps best practices. - Conduct architecture and technical design reviews. - Collaborate with Software Engineering, QA, Security, and Release Management teams. - Lead complex technical initiatives from architecture and planning through implementation and production adoption. - Champion a culture of automation, ownership, reliability, security, and continuous improvement. Preferred Experience : - 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Platform Engineering. - Strong hands-on AWS experience in enterprise environments. - Experience leading cloud migration and modernization programs. - Experience designing and operating production Kubernetes/EKS platforms. - Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform. - Experience building enterprise CI/CD frameworks and deployment automation. - Experience with highly available and business-critical applications. - Experience working in regulated or security-sensitive environments such as FinTech, Banking, Payments, Insurance, or Financial Services is highly desirable. - Strong understanding of cloud security, networking, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery. - Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership.