Lead DevOps Engineer - Head Office & Third Party Product Support

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.

8+ years of Experience handling Linux Systems at large scale.

2+ 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

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 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 

Self-motivated and self-disciplined 

Acts like a leader 

Doesn't wait to be told what is to be done. Never feels that's not my job. 

Picks up the trash lying on floor 

Behaves like an owner