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This is a full-time on-site role for a Technical Project Head with Project leadership & Agile Expertise. They will be responsible for the day-to-day management of projects, ensuring that timelines are met, budgets are adhered to, and communication with stakeholders is maintained. Project Leadership: Lead and manage cross-functional teams to ensure successful development & execution & define the overall architecture and technical direction for development projects Technical Expertise: Demonstrate a deep understanding & Oversee the backend services, databases, and third-party API integration & frontend technologies/tools. And best practices to effectively guide with budgeting & providing technical support to the development team along with assisting them in making architectural decisions. Task Assignment: Define project tasks, allocate resources, and delegate responsibilities to team members while considering their strengths and expertise & assessing the feasibility of cross-platform development, and deciding when to adopt it based on project requirements. Timelines and Milestones: Develop and communicate project timelines, milestones, and deliverables, ensuring alignment with expectations and company objectives. Risk Management: Identify potential project risks, devise mitigation strategies, and proactively address issues to keep the project on track while at the same time ensuring industry-standard security practices, authentication mechanisms, data encryption, and compliance with relevant privacy regulations. Status Updates: Regularly collect updates from team members, track project progress, and provide transparent status reports to stakeholders. Problem Solving: Swiftly addresses technical challenges, conflicts, and roadblocks, making data-driven decisions to ensure project momentum. Quality Assurance: Implement quality control measures to guarantee that the final product aligns with the project scope, technical standards, and requirements. Deadline Adherence: Employ effective time management strategies to meet project deadlines and exceed expectations. Documentation: Prepare the technical documentation, flow, and execution plan of the project including specifications & architecture. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (Master's preferred). Proven experience (5+ years) as a Senior IT Project Manager leading similar successful responsibilities mentioned above. Proficiency in frontend technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and related frameworks. Strong knowledge of backend technologies such as databases (SQL, NoSQL), server-side scripting (PHP, Node.js, Python, etc.), API integrations & development. Solid understanding of project management methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.). Excellent leadership, interpersonal, and team-building & management skills. 

JOB DETAILS:

* Job Title: Lead I - Azure, Terraform, GitLab CI 

* Industry: Global Digital Transformation Solutions Provider

* Salary: Best in Industry

* Experience: 3-5 years

* Location: Trivandrum/Pune

Job Description

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Experience: 4–8 Years 

Location: Trivandrum & Pune 

Job Type: Full-Time

Mandatory skills: Azure, Terraform, GitLab CI, Splunk

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced and driven DevOps Engineer with 4 to 8 years of experience to join our team in Trivandrum or Pune. The ideal candidate will take ownership of automating cloud infrastructure, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and implementing monitoring solutions to support scalable and reliable software delivery in a cloud-first environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, manage, and automate Azure cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Develop scalable, reusable, and version-controlled Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions using Splunk, Azure Monitor, and Dynatrace.
• Build and maintain secure and efficient CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI or Harness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable smooth deployment workflows and infrastructure updates.
• Analyze system logs, performance metrics, and s to troubleshoot and optimize performance.
• Ensure infrastructure security, compliance, and scalability best practices are followed.

Mandatory Skills

Candidates must have hands-on experience with the following technologies:

• Azure – Cloud infrastructure management and deployment
• Terraform – Infrastructure as Code for scalable provisioning
• GitLab CI – Pipeline development, automation, and integration
• Splunk – Monitoring, logging, and troubleshooting production systems

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Harness (for CI/CD)
• Familiarity with Azure Monitor and Dynatrace
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Understanding of DevOps best practices, containerization, and microservices architecture
• Exposure to Agile and collaborative development environments

Skills Summary

Azure, Terraform, GitLab CI, Splunk (Mandatory) Additional: Harness, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, Python, Bash, PowerShell

Skills: Azure, Splunk, Terraform, Gitlab Ci

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Notice period - 0 to 15days only

Job stability is mandatory

Location: Trivandrum/Pune

Job Details

- Job Title: DevOps and SRE -Technical Project Manager

- Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provider

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 12-15 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hosur & Hyderabad

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Job Description

Company’s DevOps Practice is seeking a highly skilled DevOps and SRE Technical Project Manager to lead large-scale transformation programs for enterprise customers. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), combined with strong program management, stakeholder leadership, and the ability to drive end-to-end execution of complex initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of DevOps and SRE transformation programs for enterprise clients, including full oversight of project budgets, financials, and margins.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to define program objectives, roadmaps, milestones, and success metrics aligned with business and technology goals.
• Develop and implement actionable strategies to optimize development, deployment, release management, observability, and operational workflows across client environments.
• Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance to cross-functional engineering teams, ensuring alignment with industry standards, best practices, and company delivery methodologies.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and blockers across programs, and proactively implement mitigation and contingency plans.
• Monitor program performance, KPIs, and financial health; drive corrective actions and margin optimization where necessary.
• Facilitate strong communication, collaboration, and transparency across engineering, product, architecture, and leadership teams.
• Deliver periodic program updates to internal and client stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, challenges, and improvement opportunities.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation by encouraging adoption of emerging DevOps, SRE, automation, and cloud-native practices.
• Support GitHub migration initiatives, including planning, execution, troubleshooting, and governance setup for repository and workflow migrations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years in a managerial or program leadership role.
• Proven experience leading large-scale DevOps and SRE transformation programs with measurable business impact.
• Strong program management expertise, including planning, execution oversight, risk management, and financial governance.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and modern software development practices.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and cloud-native tooling.
• Familiarity with SRE practices such as service reliability, observability, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Experience with GitHub migration projects—including repository analysis, migration planning, tooling adoption, and workflow modernization.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with a results-oriented mindset.
• Preferred certifications: PMP, PgMP, ITIL, Agile/Scrum Master, or relevant technical certifications.

Skills: Devops Tools, Cloud Infrastructure, Team Management

Must-Haves

DevOps principles (5+ years), SRE practices (5+ years), GitHub migration (3+ years), CI/CD pipelines (5+ years), Agile methodologies (5+ years)

Notice period - 0 to 15days only 

Key Responsibilities:-

• Collaborate with Data Scientists to test and scale new algorithms through pilots and later industrialize the solutions at scale to the comprehensive fashion network of the Group

• Influence, build and maintain the large-scale data infrastructure required for the AI projects, and integrate with external IT infrastructure/service to provide an e2e solution

• Leverage an understanding of software architecture and software design patterns to write scalable, maintainable, well-designed and future-proof code

• Design, develop and maintain the framework for the analytical pipeline

• Develop common components to address pain points in machine learning projects, like model lifecycle management, feature store and data quality evaluation

• Provide input and help implement framework and tools to improve data quality

• Work in cross-functional agile teams of highly skilled software/machine learning engineers, data scientists, designers, product managers and others to build the AI ecosystem within the Group

• Deliver on time, demonstrating a strong commitment to deliver on the team mission and agreed backlog

As part of the Cloud Platform / Devops team at Upswing, you will get to work on building state-of-the-art infrastructure for the future. You will also be –

• Building Infrastructure on AWS driven through terraform and building automation tools for deployment, infrastructure management, and observability stack 
• Building and Scaling on Kubernetes
• Ensuring the Security of Upswing Cloud Infra
• Building Security Checks and automation to improve overall security posture 
• Building automation stack for components like JVM-based applications, Apache Pulsar, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Reporting Infra, etc.
• Mentoring people across the teams to enable best practices 
• Mentoring and guiding team members to upskill and helm them develop work class Fintech Infrastructure

What will you do if you join us?

• Write a lot of code
• Engage in a lot of cross-team collaboration to independently drive forward infrastructure initiatives and Devops practices across the org 
• Taking Ownership of existing, ongoing, and future initiatives 
• Plan Architecture- for upcoming infrastructure
• Build for Scale, Resiliency & Security 
• Introduce best practices wrt Devops & Cloud in the team
• Mentor new/junior team members and eventually build your own team

You should have

• Curiosity for on-the-job learning and experimenting with new technologies and ideas
• A strong background in Linux environment
• Must have Programming skills and Experience
• Strong experience in Cloud technologies, Security and Networking concepts, Multi-cloud environments, etc.
• Experience with at least one scripting language (GoLang/Python/Ruby/Groovy)
• Experience in Terraform is highly desirable but not mandatory
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is required 
• Understanding of the Java Technologies and Stack
• Any other Devops related experience will be considered

Role:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Company delivers, and how these link to Company’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Company processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Requirements:

• Acquired strong proven professional programming experience.
• Strong command of Algorithms, Data structures, Design patterns, and Product Architectural Design.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Cloud technologies, CI/CD, Serverless and Docker, preferable AWS 
• Proven track record and expert in one of the field - DevOps/Frontend/Backend
• Excellent coding and debugging skills in any language with command on any one programming paradigm, preferred Javascript/Python/Go
• Experience with at least one of the Database systems - RDBMS and NoSQL
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using AGILE or SCRUM techniques to build quality software.
• Advantage: experience in React js, AWS, Nodejs, Golang, Apache Spark, ETL tool, data integration system, certification in AWS, worked in a Product company and involved in making it from scratch, Good communication skills, open-source contributions, proven competitive coding pro