CareerPlan

Director Head of DevOps/Platform Engineering

BengaluruFull-time2026-07-29 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the modernization of the engineering platform and build a centralized DevOps organization to deliver self-service CI/CD and SRE practices for flagship lending products.

Role type

Director, Head of DevOps / Platform Engineering

Builds

Centralized DevOps platform, self-service CI/CD frameworks, SRE practices, and standardized client deployment patterns.

Domain

Financial Services / Corporate Lending / Cloud-Native Infrastructure

Required skills

DevOps strategy, Kubernetes (OpenShift/EKS/AKS), CI/CD tooling, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Helm), SRE practices, team leadership, cloud-agnostic architecture

Preferred skills

Financial services domain knowledge, Internal Developer Portal (Backstage), FinOps, platform engineering maturity models

Technologies

Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GitHub Actions, Tekton, ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize

Responsibilities

Define DevOps strategy and Target Operating Platform roadmap; Build and scale a centralized shared DevOps team; Establish SRE practices including SLOs and observability; Design standardized client deployment patterns; Recruit and mentor high-performing engineering teams.

Seniority

Director, strategic leadership with hands-on technical authority