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Role Description
Job Description – Senior Cloud & DevOps Practice Lead
Location: Bengaluru, India
Experience: 15+ years (with strong Cloud + DevOps leadership depth)
Business Unit: UST FinX
Domain: Banking & FinTech (US & Europe)
Employment Type: Full Time
Reporting to: Technology/Engineering Leadership (FinX)
Job Objective
UST FinX is looking for a
Senior Cloud & DevOps Practice Lead to establish and scale a world-class
Cloud Engineering and DevOps practice that supports the development and operation of
secure, compliant, high-availability banking and fintech platforms for clients in the
US and Europe regions.
This leader will define and drive
cloud strategy,
DevOps/Platform Engineering operating model, and
SRE-aligned reliability practices. The role is accountable for building reusable
reference architectures, implementing standardized
CI/CD,
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC),
security-by-design and
compliance-by-default capabilities, and enabling high-performing product teams through
self-service platforms and
golden paths. The Practice Lead will collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Risk & Compliance, and Product leadership to ensure solutions meet
banking-grade requirements—including
resilience, auditability, data security, regulatory alignment, and operational excellence—while optimizing cost and accelerating delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Practice Leadership & Strategy
- Define and execute the Cloud & DevOps practice vision, roadmap, and operating model aligned to FinX product strategy.
- Establish engineering standards for cloud architecture, CI/CD, IaC, observability, reliability, and release governance across product lines.
- Build and mentor a high-performing team of DevOps/Platform Engineers, Cloud Architects, SREs, and Automation Engineers.
- Lead capability development: templates, patterns, accelerators, playbooks, and training programs.
- Cloud Architecture & Platform Engineering
- Own cloud platform strategy across AWS/Azure (and optionally GCP) based on product needs, regional constraints, and client preferences.
- Design and institutionalize reference architectures for:
- Microservices and event-driven platforms
- Container platforms (Kubernetes/EKS/AKS)
- Secure landing zones and multi-account/subscription models
- Identity, network segmentation, and key management
- Drive adoption of platform engineering principles: self-service, developer experience (DevEx), internal developer platform (IDP), and “paved roads”.
- DevOps Transformation & CI/CD Excellence
- Standardize and scale CI/CD pipelines for multi-team product delivery (build, test, security scans, deploy, rollback).
- Implement GitOps and release automation for predictable and auditable deployments.
- Define environments strategy (Dev/Test/UAT/Prod), deployment strategies (blue-green/canary), and release governance.
- Security, Compliance & Risk (Banking Grade)
- Embed DevSecOps practices: SAST/DAST, dependency and container scanning, secrets management, policy-as-code, and supply chain security.
- Ensure alignment with industry expectations for regulated environments (audit trails, segregation of duties, access controls, encryption, incident response).
- Partner with security and compliance stakeholders to implement controls aligned to client and regional expectations (US and Europe).
- Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operations
- Introduce and mature SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs/SLAs, error budgets, blameless postmortems, incident management, and runbooks.
- Establish observability standards across logs, metrics, traces, and ing.
- Drive resiliency engineering: DR, backups, chaos testing, capacity planning, and performance engineering.
- FinOps & Cost Optimization
- Implement FinOps governance: tagging standards, chargeback/showback, budgeting, cost anomaly detection, and optimization.
- Optimize cost through rightsizing, autoscaling, storage tiering, and usage-based architecture.
- Stakeholder Management & Delivery Enablement
- Partner with product teams to accelerate releases while improving operational stability.
- Work with global stakeholders in US and Europe; provide technical leadership in client discussions, audits, and platform reviews.
- Influence architecture decisions and ensure consistency across portfolios.
Mandatory Skills & Qualifications
Experience & Leadership
- 15+ years in engineering with significant leadership experience in Cloud + DevOps/Platform Engineering.
- Proven track record leading cloud transformation and scaling DevOps across multiple product teams.
- Experience building and managing teams (hiring, coaching, performance management, career pathways).
Cloud & Platform Engineering
- Strong hands-on and architectural depth in AWS and/or Azure (multi-account/subscription design, landing zones, identity, networking, security).
- Expertise in Kubernetes ecosystem (EKS/AKS), containerization (Docker), Helm/Kustomize, service mesh exposure desirable.
- Architecture knowledge of microservices, event-driven patterns, and distributed systems.
DevOps, IaC & Automation
- Mastery of CI/CD tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) with enterprise governance.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, Pulumi (any two preferred).
- Configuration management and automation: Ansible, Chef/Puppet (optional), scripting in Python/Bash/PowerShell.
- GitOps tools: Argo CD / Flux.
Security & Compliance (DevSecOps)
- Strong knowledge of DevSecOps controls: secrets management (Vault/AWS Secrets Manager/Azure Key Vault), policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), scanning tools, SBOM practices.
- Expertise in IAM, encryption, key management, network security (WAF, security groups/NSGs), vulnerability management.
- Familiarity with regulated delivery practices: audit logging, change management, access governance, separation of duties.
Observability & Reliability
- Experience implementing observability stacks: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk, Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry.
- Strong grounding in SRE concepts: SLOs, incident response, capacity and performance engineering.
Banking/FinTech Domain Alignment
- Experience delivering platforms in banking/financial services/fintech with high security, resilience, and compliance expectations.
- Understanding of regional needs for US and Europe clients (data handling, operational risk, governance, audit readiness).
Communication & Stakeholder Management
- Excellent communication skills; ability to influence engineering and senior leadership.
- Experience presenting technical strategy and operating models to internal leadership and customers.
Good-to-Have Skills
Advanced Cloud & Architecture
- Multi-cloud strategy and hybrid connectivity (VPN/Direct Connect/ExpressRoute), on-prem integration.
- Experience with serverless (AWS Lambda/Azure Functions), managed services modernization.
- Experience with data platforms (streaming, lakehouse patterns), secure data pipelines.
Security & Governance Maturity
- Exposure to security frameworks and certifications: ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR alignment, NIST/CSF concepts.
- Experience with software supply chain security: SLSA concepts, artifact signing (Cosign), provenance, secure registries.
FinOps & Business Enablement
- Strong FinOps experience: governance, forecasting, reserved capacity strategies (Savings Plans/RI), unit economics.
Engineering Excellence
- Experience implementing developer portals and internal platforms (Backstage or equivalent).
- Experience with performance testing and chaos engineering tooling.
- Familiarity with ITSM integration (ServiceNow) and operational readiness frameworks.
People & Practice Growth
- Practice build-out experience: playbooks, accelerators, offerings, reusable frameworks, knowledge management.
- Experience contributing to pre-sales, estimations, solutioning, and proposal/RFP responses.
Skills
multi cloud,cloud infrastructure,cloud architecture,cloud networking,devops,docker,cloud monitoring,cloud cost optimization,cloud governance,cloud security
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