Vice President - DevOps Engineering

MIC Global is a full-stack micro-insurance provider, purpose-built to design and deliver embedded parametric micro-insurance solutions to platform companies. Our mission is to make insurance more accessible for new, emerging, and underserved risks using our MiIncome loss-of-income products, MiConnect, MiIdentity, Coverpoint technology, and more - backed by innovative underwriting capabilities as a Lloyd’s Coverholder and through our in-house reinsurer, MicRe.

We operate across 12+ countries, with our Global Operations Center in Bangalore supporting clients worldwide, including a leading global ride-hailing platform and a top international property rental marketplace. Our distributed teams across the UK, USA, and Asia collaborate to ensure that no one is beyond the reach of financial security.

Role Overview

As Lead – Product Support & IT Infrastructure, you will oversee the technology backbone that supports MIC Global’s products, data operations, and global business continuity. You will manage all aspects of IT infrastructure, system uptime, cybersecurity, and support operations ensuring that MIC’s platforms remain reliable, secure, and scalable.

This is a pivotal, hands-on leadership role, blending strategic oversight with operational execution. The ideal candidate combines strong technical expertise with a proactive, service-oriented mindset to support both internal teams and external partners.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Operations

• Oversee all IT infrastructure and operations, including database administration, hosting environments, and production systems.
• Ensure system reliability, uptime, and performance across global deployments.
• Align IT operations with Agile development cycles and product release plans.
• Manage the IT service desk (MiTracker), ensuring timely and high-quality resolution of incidents.
• Drive continuous improvement in monitoring, alerting, and automation processes.
• Lead the development, testing, and maintenance of Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity Plans (BCP).
• Manage vendor relationships, IT budgets, and monthly cost reporting.
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Security & Compliance

• Lead cybersecurity efforts across the organization, developing and implementing comprehensive information security strategies.
• Monitor, respond to, and mitigate security incidents in a timely manner.
• Maintain compliance with industry standards and data protection regulations (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, ISO27001).
• Prepare regular reports on security incidents, IT costs, and system performance for review with the Head of Technology.
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Team & Process Management

• Deliver exceptional customer service by ensuring internal and external technology users are supported effectively.
• Implement strategies to ensure business continuity during absences — including defined backup responsibilities and robust process documentation.
• Promote knowledge sharing and operational excellence across Product Support and IT teams.
• Build and maintain a culture of accountability, responsiveness, and cross-team collaboration.
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Required Qualifications

• Azure administration experience and qualifications, such as Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Strong SQL Server DBA capabilities and experience, including performance tuning, high availability configurations, and certifications like Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate.
• 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure management, DevOps, or IT operations, essential to be within Product focused companies; fintech, insurtech, or SaaS environments.
• Proven experience leading service desk or technical support functions in a 24/7 uptime environment.
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), database administration, and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on experience with security frameworks, incident response, and business continuity planning.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing teams and implementing scalable IT systems and processes.
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Benefits

• 33 days of paid holiday
• Competitive compensation well above market average
• Work in a high-growth, high-impact environment with passionate, talented peers
• Clear path for personal growth and leadership development.

• Install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop Kubernetes-based solutions.
• Improve Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Work with other engineers to troubleshoot Kubernetes issues.

• Kubernetes administration experience, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Kubernetes development experience
• Linux/Unix experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Good knowledge of at least one language (C#, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js)
• Have enough experience on application and infrastructure architectures
• Design and plan cloud solution architecture
• Design for security, network, and compliances
• Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
• Ensure solution and operational reliability
• Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
• Manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
• Design strategies around cloud governance, migration, Cloud operations and DevOps
• Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud applications
• Build and test applications
• Deploy applications on cloud
• Integration with cloud services

Certification:

• Architect level certificate of any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for experienced technology consultant to work in DevOps team in pre-sales function. The primary area of focus will be Microservices, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and container security. A person in this role will be responsible for leading technical discussions with customers and partners and helping them arrive at final solution.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Engineering or equivalent degree
• Must have at least 8 years of experience in IT industry designing and delivering solutions
• Must have at least 3 years of hand-on experience of Linux and Operating system
• Must have at least 3 years of experience of working in an environment with highly virtualized or cloud based infrastructure
• Must have at least 2 years hands on experience in CI/CD pipeline, micro-services, containerization and kubernetes
• Though coding is not needed in this role, the person should have ability to understand and debug code if required
• Should be able to explain complex solution in simpler ways
• Should be ready to travel 20-40% in a month
• Should be able to engage with customers to understand the fundamental/driving requirement

DESIRED SKILLS

• Past experience of working with Docker and/or Kubernetes at Scale
• Past experience of working in a DevOps team
• Prior experience in Pre-sales role

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own pre-sales or sales engineering responsibility to design, present, deliver technical solution
• Be the point of contact for all technical queries for Sales team and partners
• Build full-fledged solution proposals with details of implementation and scope of work for customers
• Contribute in technical writings through blogs, whitepapers, solution demos
• Make presentations at events and participate in events.
• Conduct customer workshops to educate them about features in Docker Enterprise Edition
• Coordinate technical escalations with principal vendor
• Get an understanding of various other components and considerations involved in the areas mentioned above
• Be able to articulate value of technology vendor’s products that Ashnik is partnering with eg.  Docker, Sysdig, Hashicorp, Ansible, Jenkins etc.
• Work with partners and sales team for responding to RFPs and tenders

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

You would be adding a great experience of working with a leading open source solutions company in South East Asia region to your career. You would get to learn from the leaders and grow in the industry. This would be a great opportunity for you to grow in your career through continuous learning, adding depth and breadth of technologies. Since we work with leading open source technologies and engage with large enterprises, it creates enormous possibilities for career growth for our team. Not to mention that our people find the journey with Ashnik to be exciting and a fulfilling experience.

1. Develop and Deploy Software:
1. Architect and create an effective build and release process using industry best practices and tools
2. Create and manage build scripts to deploy software in a multi-cloud environment
3. Look for opportunities to automate as much of the deployment process as possible to provide for repeatability, auditability, scalability and build in process enforcement
2. Manage Release Schedule:
1. Act as a “gate keeper” for all releases into production
2. Work closely with business stakeholders, development managers and developers to prepare a release schedule
3. Help prioritize deployment requests for version upgrades, patches and hot-fixes
3. Continuous Delivery of Software:
1. Implement Continuous Integration (CI) practices to drive development teams to implement smaller changes and commit code to the version control repo frequently
2. Implement Continuous Development (CD) practices that automates deployment of the application to several environments – Dev, Test and Production
3. Implement Continuous Testing (functional and non-functional) to execute tests in the CI/CD pipeline
4. Manage Version Control:
1. Define and implement branching policies to efficiently manage source-code
2. Implement business rules as a part of source control standards
5. Resolve Software Issues:
1. Assist technical support and development teams to troubleshoot issues and identify areas that need improvement
2. Address deployment related issues
6. Maintain Release Documentation:
1. Maintain release notes (features available in stable versions and known issues) and other documents for both internal and external end users

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for https://www.simplilearn.com/top-benefits-of-learning-devops-article" target="_blank">DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate https://www.simplilearn.com/best-ci-cd-tools-article" target="_blank">CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (https://www.simplilearn.com/open-source-pipeline-tools-for-devops-article" target="_blank">CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Requirements

• Design, write and build tools to improve the reliability, latency, availability and scalability of HealthifyMe application.

• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across distributed teams in a global environment

• Optimize performance and solve issues across the entire stack: hardware, software, application, and network.

• Experienced in building infrastructure with terraform / cloudformation or equivalent.
• Experience with ansible or equivalent is beneficial
• Ability to use a wide variety of Open Source Tools
• Experience  with AWS is a must.
• Minimum 5 years of running services in a large scale environment.
• Expert level understanding of Linux servers, specifically RHEL/CentOS.
• Practical, proven knowledge of shell scripting and at least one higher-level language (eg. Python, Ruby, GoLang).
• Experience with source code and binary repositories, build tools, and CI/CD (Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, etc)
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security, and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.

Look forward to

- Working with a world-class team.

- Fun & work at the same place with an amazing work culture and flexible timings.

- Get ready to transform yourself into a health junkie

Join HealthifyMe and make history!