Senior DevOps Lead Data Engineering - Assistant Vice President

CitiVisit website ↗·Posted 1 month ago

Location

Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

Required Skills

PythonJavaAWSKubernetesDevOpsCI/CDAgileMicroservices

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineering Lead with 7-10 years of progressive experience to drive our data platform infrastructure automation, CI/CD excellence, and operational efficiency. This role is pivotal in managing and scaling our resilient and performant systems, with a strong focus on empowering microservices architecture. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in a wide range of DevOps tools and practices, coupled with strong leadership and problem-solving abilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure CI/CD pipeline architecture for microservices applications, ensuring continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.

• Infrastructure Planning . Management: Lead the design, provisioning, optimization and management of scalable data infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) across cloud , ECS and/or on-premise environments, specifically supporting a data mesh paradigm.

• Elastic Stack Expertise: Manage and optimize Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) for centralized logging, monitoring, and analytics.

• Automation . Scripting: Design, Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using Shell scripts, Python, Java, or other relevant languages to streamline operational tasks and improve efficiency.

• Infrastructure Procurement . Lifecycle: Oversee the end-to-end Solution (SLTN) process for infrastructure procurement, ensuring timely and compliant acquisition of resources.

• Capacity Estimation . Planning: Conduct thorough capacity planning and performance analysis for microservices and underlying infrastructure to ensure scalability and reliability.

• Access Management . Security: Design and implement secure machine-to-machine communication strategies and manage infrastructure access, adhering to security best practices.

• Microservices Operations: Provide operational expertise and support for highly distributed microservices architectures, including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response.

• Governance . Observability: Implement and enforce data governance policies through automation, and establish comprehensive observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) for data pipelines and infrastructure.

• Mentorship . Best Practices: Mentor junior DevOps engineers, promote DevOps best practices (e.g., IaC, GitOps, observability), and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with partner development, QA, and infra security teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.

• 7-10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a similar role.

• Proven expertise in designing and implementing DevOps leadership

• In-depth experience with container orchestration platforms like AWS, Openshift ECS (or Kubernetes).

• Strong practical experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) for transaction, logging and monitoring.

• Proficiency in scripting languages (Schell scripting, Python is a must), and strong Java development skills, particularly for tooling and automation.

• Demonstrated knowledge of microservices architecture principles and operational challenges.

• Familiarity with machine-to-machine authentication and authorization mechanisms.

• Must have knowledge of automation principles and practices.

• Experience with job scheduling tools like Autosys.

• Familiarity with Helix Blueprint or similar automation frameworks.

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

• Modern Engineering Practices: Familiarity in modern engineering practices such as Trunk-Based Development, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Contract Testing, and Agile methodologies.

Good to Have:

• AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator).

• Experience with Kafka and Tibco messaging infrastructure, including best practices for messaging design and operations.

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Job Family Group: Technology

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Job Family: Applications Development

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Time Type: Full time

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Most Relevant Skills Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills
For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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Ideal Candidate

A hands-on DevOps engineer who has progressed from individual contributor to team lead, with proven success building CI/CD pipelines for microservices at scale and experience managing both cloud and on-premise infrastructure in financial or high-compliance environments.

Estimated Salary Range(medium confidence)

₹22 L – ₹34 L per year

Likely Interview Questions

1.Walk us through a CI/CD pipeline architecture you designed for microservices—what trade-offs did you make between deployment speed and safety, and how did you handle rollback?
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