Job Description
Senior Cloud SRE/DevOps Engineer (VP) – IB Tech & CRM/Analytics | Pune, India
Role Overview
We are seeking a Senior Cloud SRE/DevOps Engineer (VP level) accountable for the design, delivery, and operational excellence of the CI/CD, cloud, and platform engineering ecosystem. This role combines deep hands‑on technical expertise with architectural ownership, governance awareness, and strong cross‑functional leadership.
The role will be responsible for enabling fast, safe, and repeatable delivery to production, while reducing operational risk, eliminating manual dependencies, and establishing scalable DevOps standards across teams.
Key Responsibilities
Platform, Cloud & Infrastructure
- Design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) using infrastructure‑as‑code.
- Own container platforms and runtime environments (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).
- Define environment standards across Dev, QA, UAT, and Production.
- Architect and maintain enterprise‑grade CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitHub Enterprise).
- Ensure atomic deployments, controlled promotions, and deterministic rollbacks.
- Define image/artifact retention strategies and version management.
- Reduce build and deployment complexity through automation and standardization.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting standards (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, OTel).
- Embed DevSecOps practices into pipelines (secrets mgmt, image scanning, least privilege).
- Lead incident response collaboration, root cause analysis, and post‑incident remediation.
- Define and maintain runbooks, operating procedures, and architectural standards.
- Simplify approval models and workflows to balance speed with control.
- Ensure solutions meet audit, compliance, and enterprise risk expectations.
CI/CD & Release Engineering
Reliability, Security & Observability
Operational Excellence & Governance
Required Qualifications
- Experience with GitHub Actions and enterprise GitHub governance.
- Kubernetes platform operations and cluster‑level troubleshooting.
- DevSecOps tooling and secure supply‑chain practices.
- Experience in regulated or financial services environments.
- Prior ownership of on‑call rotations and incident management.
- Experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- Strong experience with AWS (EC2, EKS, IAM, VPC, ALB, RDS, CloudWatch).
- Proven expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and automation.
- Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform preferred).
- Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or equivalent).
- Experience supporting production systems in high‑availability environments.
- Acts as a technical authority and decision‑maker, not just an implementer.
- Thinks end‑to‑end: design → delivery → operations → recovery.
- Sets standards that scale across teams, not one‑off solutions.
- Balances engineering velocity with reliability, security, and governance.
- Coaches and mentors engineers; raises the overall DevOps maturity.
- Owns outcomes during incidents and escalations, demonstrating calm leadership.
- Influences architecture, tooling strategy, and long‑term platform evolution.
- GitHub Enterprise administration and governance at scale.
- Kubernetes platform operations and cluster lifecycle management.
- DevSecOps tooling and secure software supply‑chain practices.
- Experience in financial services or regulated environments.
- SRE concepts (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets).
- Experience driving platform adoption and change across multiple teams.
- Familiarity with audit, change management, and production governance processes.
About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
