VP1 Automation Engineer Lead, GIPS
Core
Lead a team to build and evolve internal platforms that automate operational processes, improve service reliability, and deliver self-service capabilities.
Role type
VP1 Lead Automation Engineer (Platform Engineering & SRE)
Builds
Internal automation platforms, full-stack applications, and platform services for operational workflows
Domain
Banking / Platform Engineering / DevOps / SRE
Required skills
Team leadership, full-stack development, API design, microservices architecture, OpenShift Container Platform, Kubernetes, private cloud environments, observability, monitoring, CI/CD, stakeholder management
Preferred skills
Platform product ownership from scratch, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible), enterprise observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog)
Technologies
Angular, Django, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, Datadog
Responsibilities
Lead and mentor Site Reliability Engineers and software engineers; Design and maintain internal automation platforms; Drive adoption of SRE and DevOps best practices; Lead incident management and root cause analysis; Define platform roadmaps and adoption strategies; Champion code quality and engineering standards
Seniority
VP1, hands-on IC with leadership