Kotak Cherry
Website:
kotakcherry.com
Job details:
About Kotak Cherry
Kotak Cherry is a one-stop investment platform that offers a range of investment options including Mutual Funds, REITs & Stocks. Backed by the trusted house of Kotak, Cherry provides an intuitive platform and investment ecosystem for investors. Apart from having a dedicated app for this, we also power the investments for Kotak Mobile banking and 811 Apps.
Cherry focuses on three major pillars:
- Curation: Cherry offers a variety of investment options to meet individual financial goals and needs. Investors can choose from the list of Mutual Fund Baskets or can just buy curated fund baskets.
- Domain expertise: Cherry simplifies complex financial jargon and provides easy-to-understand explanations. The app offers rich content, calculators, and tools to help users understand and navigate the world of investing.
- Holistic: Cherry is a one-stop shop for investing in various assets. Whether it's mutual funds, stocks or bonds users can access everything they need in one place.
About the role
This is a senior role for the infrasucture engineering. You'll have entire ownership of things like Cloud & Infrastructure, DevEx / CI-CD / Developer Tooling, Site Reliability Engineering, Observability & Production Engineering and Cost & Capacity Engineering.
Responsibilities
- Manage availability, latency and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.
- Own the entire infrastructure for Kotak Cherry. Plan, architect and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions.
- Defining and ensuring adherence for strategy and roadmap to develop CI/CD, Application hosting, Security and Compliance standards and guidelines.
- Manage incident response protocol and provide hands-on direction during service interruptions - Assist with Root Cause Analysis of service interruptions and maintain SLA.
- Be the best engineer, problem solver and ace trouble shooter for the team.
- Manage DevOps and SRE Teams (around 15 members in total) and guide them to achieve above.
Basic Requirements
- 8+ years of Experience handling Linux Systems at large scale.
- 3+ years of Hands-on experience on Containers & Container Orchestration Tools.
- 3+ years of proven Experience with designing, building, supporting and observing large-scale distributed systems/services/infrastructure
- Strong work ethic, a self-starter and demonstrate a high level of resilience
- Should be highly goal driven and work well in fast-paced, team-oriented environment
- Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, with a focus on AWS.
- Shell/Ruby/Python scripting knowledge
- Strong written and communication skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Deep rooted understanding of Linux Systems, Databases and Network concepts
- In-depth knowledge of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and security.
- Strong proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and tools, such as Terraform/CloudFormation, for automating infrastructure deployment.
- Familiarity with common web/app/db servers like (nginx, Postgres etc)
- Experience with evented/queue systems like RabbitMQ/Kafka is a plus.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, and ELK/EFK Stack
- Proficient with Kubernetes internal architecture, networking and container microservice architectural pattern
- Strong Experience in Microservices Architecture, API GW, Service Mesh implementation and instrumenting XaaC (Infrastructure, Software, Network, Policy, Security) across global scale systems
- Hands-on Experience in defining and driving Disaster Recovery across Platforms.
- Ability to turn technical deep dives into code, networking, operating systems, and storage, with ability to participate in an executive strategy discussion.
- Automation, auditing, and other tooling for security, compliance, and resource usage - Monitor and improve processes for all deployments.
- Have clear understanding server to server interactions and best practices
Personality Traits
- Self-motivated and self-disciplined
- Acts like a leader
- Behaves like an owner – Never feels that's not my job.
- Constant Learner with a Growth Mindset
- Optimism – don’t see roadblocks, see them as a step.
- Relentless Resourcefulness – thinks there is always a solution.
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