DevOps Engineer

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Strategy & Leadership

• Define and execute the end-to-end DevOps strategy for high-frequency trading and fintech platforms.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing DevOps team focused on automation, reliability, and performance.
• Partner closely with engineering and product leaders to ensure infrastructure strategy supports business and technical goals.

CI/CD & Infrastructure Automation

• Architect, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for ultra-low-latency trading systems.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and advanced automation toolsets.
• Establish robust release management, deployment workflows, and versioning best practices for mission‑critical environments.

Cloud & On‑Prem Infrastructure Management

• Design and manage hybrid infrastructures across AWS, GCP, and on-premise data centers ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Implement sophisticated networking strategies for low-latency workloads including routing optimization and performance tuning.
• Lead multi‑cloud scalability, cost optimization, and environment standardization initiatives.

Performance Monitoring & Optimization

• Oversee large-scale monitoring systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and related observability tools.
• Implement predictive alerting, automated remediation, and system‑wide health checks for zero‑downtime operations.
• Conduct root-cause analyses and performance tuning for systems processing millions of transactions per second.

Security & Compliance

• Champion DevSecOps practices and embed security across the entire development and deployment lifecycle.
• Ensure adherence to financial regulatory standards (SEBI and global frameworks) with strong audit and compliance mechanisms.
• Lead security automation efforts, vulnerability management, and advanced IAM policy implementation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps experience, with 5+ years in a leadership capacity.
• Deep hands-on expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD.
• Strong command of AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and large-scale container orchestration.
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform, Helm, and overall IaC workflows.
• Strong Linux administration, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, Firewalls), and system internals.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Excellent scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.
• Deep understanding of security principles, encryption, IAM, and compliance frameworks.

Good to Have

• Experience with ultra-low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol, FPGA acceleration, or network‑level optimizations.
• Familiarity with Redis, Nginx, or other high‑throughput systems.
• Exposure to micro‑second‑level performance tuning or network acceleration technologies.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a team that consistently raises the bar and delivers exceptional engineering outcomes.
• A culture where innovation, ownership, and bold thinking are valued.
• Exceptional growth opportunities—ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-impact environments.
• Build systems that influence markets and redefine the fintech landscape.

This isn’t just a role—it’s a challenge, a platform, and a proving ground.

Ready to step up? Apply now.

Job Details

- Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

- Industry: Consumer Internet, Technology & Travel and Tourism Platform

- Function - IT

- Experience Required: 7-10 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bengaluru

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Criteria:

• Strong Lead DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer Profiles.
• Must have 7+ years of hands-on experience working as a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer.
• Candidate’s current title must be Lead DevOps Engineer (or equivalent Lead role) in the current organization
• Must have minimum 2+ years of team management / technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers, driving infrastructure decisions, or leading DevOps initiatives.
• Must have strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (container orchestration) including deployment, scaling, and cluster management.
• Must have experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Must have strong scripting and automation experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Must have working experience with distributed databases or data systems such as MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, or Puppet.
• Must have strong hands-on experience in Observability & Monitoring, CI/CD architecture, and Networking concepts in production environments.
• (Company) – Must be from B2C Product Companies only.
• (Education) – B.E/ B.Tech

Preferred

• Experience working in microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization practices.
• (Skills) – Understanding of programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
• (Environment) – Experience working in high-growth startup or large-scale production environments.

Job Description 

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be working on building and operating infrastructure at scale, designing and implementing a variety of tools to enable product teams to build and deploy their services independently, improving observability across the board, and designing for security, resiliency, availability, and stability. If the prospect of ensuring system reliability at scale and exploring cutting-edge technology to solve problems, excites you, then this is your fit.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed DBs
• Codify our infrastructure
• Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%
• Understand the bigger picture and sail through the ambiguities
• Scale technology considering cost and observability and manage end-to-end processes
• Understand DevOps philosophy and evangelize the principles across the organization
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to break down the silos

1. Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS, Azure and GCP
2. Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
3. Provision, configure and maintain AWS, Azure, GCP cloud infrastructure defined as code
4. Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
5. Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
6. Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
7. Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS, Azure Infrastructure and systems
8. Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

• Candidate should have good Platform experience on Azure with Terraform.
• The devops engineer  needs to help developers, create the Pipelines and K8s Deployment Manifests.
• Good to have experience on migrating data from (AWS) to Azure. 
• To manage/automate infrastructure automatically using Terraforms. Jenkins is the key CI/CD tool which we uses and it will be used to run these Terraforms.
• VMs to be provisioned on Azure Cloud and managed.
• Good hands on experience of Networking on Cloud is required.
• Ability to setup Database on VM as well as managed DB and Proper set up of cloud hosted microservices needs to be done to communicate with the db services.
• Kubernetes, Storage, KeyValult, Networking(load balancing and routing) and VMs are the key infrastructure expertise which are essential. 
• Requirement is  to administer Kubernetes cluster end to end. (Application deployment, managing namespaces, load balancing, policy setup, using blue-green/canary deployment models etc).
• The experience in AWS is desirable 
• Python experience is optional however Power shell is mandatory
• Know-how on the use of GitHub

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

Website: https://moneyhop.co/">https://moneyhop.co/

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in DevOps.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Should have excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Technical Skills

• Work with developer teams with a focus on automating build and deployment using tools such as Jenkins.
• Implement CI/CD in projects (GitLabCI preferred).
• Enable software build and deploy.
• Provisioning both day to day operations and automation using tools, e. g. Ansible, Bash.
• Write, plan, create infra as a code using Terraform.
• Monitoring, ITSM automation incident creation from alerts using licensed and open source tools.
• Manage credentials for AWS cloud servers, github repos, Atlassian Cloud services, Jenkins, OpenVPN, and the developers environment.
• Building environments for unit tests, integration tests, system tests, and acceptance tests using Jenkins.
• Create and spin off resource instances.
• Experience implementing CI/CD.
• Experience with infrastructure automation solutions (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc. ).
• Experience with AWS.
• Should have expert Linux and Network administration skills to troubleshoot and trace symptoms back to the root cause.
• Knowledge of application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about developing solution strategies, and deliver results.
• Good understanding of design of native Cloud applications Cloud application design patterns and practices in AWS.

• Work with the developer team to enhance the existing CI/CD pipeline.
• Adopt industry best practices to set up a UAT and prod environment for scalability.
• Manage the AWS resources including IAM users, access control, billing etc.
• Work with the test automation engineer to establish a CI/CD pipeline.
• Work on replication of environments easy to implement.
• Enable efficient software deployment.