DevOps Engineer

Position Purpose:

DevOps professional whose core expertise lies in enterprise virtualization and whose secondary skill set includes Red Hat OpenShift. The role will own the design, automation, and operation of highlyavailable virtualised infrastructure that powers our missioncritical banking applications. Strong handson experience with Python, Terraform, and a background in regulated financial services is essential.

Mandatory Skillset: Red Hat OpenShift, Terraform, Python, Ansible

Experience Range: 10yrs minimum

Location: Bangalore

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

1. 1) Design, build, and operate large scale virtualised environments (VMware vSphere, KVM, Hyper V, or Nutanix) that meet banking grade performance, availability, and security requirements.
2. 2) Automate provisioning, scaling, patching, and disaster recovery of VMs and associated networking/storage using Terraform and custom Python tooling.
3. 3) Deploy and maintain OpenShift clusters (secondary focus) for containerised workloads, integrating them seamlessly with the underlying virtualised fabric.
4. 4) Create and manage CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, Argo CD, Tekton) that deliver both VM based and container based services with zero downtime releases.
5. 5) Implement security and compliance controls (PCI DSS, ISO 27001, RBI/CBI) via policy as code, role based access, network segmentation, and automated vulnerability scanning.
6. 6) Develop observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/Elastic, Jaeger) to monitor VM health, OpenShift clusters, and application performance; drive RCA and continuous improvement.

Contributing Responsibilities

1. 1) Collaborate with application, security, and networking teams to migrate legacy banking workloads to virtualised or containerised platforms, ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance.
2. 2) Mentor junior engineers and champion best practice automation, IaC, and DevSecOps culture across the organization.

3) Document architecture, run books, and compliance evidence for audit and knowledge transfer purposes.4) Stay current with emerging virtualization technologies (e.g., vSphere 8, KubeVirt) and OpenShift features that can add value to the bank's digital roadmap.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Technical Skills:

o Virtualization (Mastered)

o OpenShift (Mastered)

o Infrastructure as Code (Expert)

o CI/CD & GIT Ops (Expert)

o Observability (Intermediate)

Transversal skills:

o Analytical capacity (Expert)

o Ability to lead a meeting, a seminar, a committee, a training session, etc. (Mastered)

o Ability to understand, explain and lead change (Mastered)

o Ability to define relevant performance indicators (Mastered)

o Ability to work with Agile methods (Mastered)

Specific Qualifications:

o Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or Red Hat Certified Specialist OpenShift Administration.

o VMware Certified Professional Data Center Virtualization (VCP DCV).