15h Left Engineering Manager

Inside Navi We are shaping the future of financial services for a billion Indians through products that are simple, accessible, and affordable. From Personal & Home Loans to UPI, Insurance, Mutual Funds, and Gold - we’re building tech-first solutions that work at scale, with a strong customer-first approach. Founded by Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal in 2018, we are one of India’s fastest-growing financial services organisations. But we’re just getting started About the Engineering Team Navi’s Engineering team builds the backbone of our financial products. We operate as cross-functional teams that work closely with Product, Data, and Business functions to deliver reliable, high-performance systems at scale. Our engineers focus on solving real-world challenges through scalable architecture, automation, and long-term thinking, along with providing quality feedback - ensuring every Navi product is built to serve millions efficiently and seamlessly. About the DevOps & Infra Team The DevOps and Infrastructure team at Navi designs, operates, and scales a hybrid cloud architecture spanning AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and specialized self-hosted environments. As Navi partners closely with banks and regulated financial institutions, our infrastructure must be resilient, compliant, and secure by design. The team is responsible for ensuring that all systems run seamlessly while safeguarding sensitive customer data (including PII) and preventing any disruptions in financial transactions. We are passionate about building next-generation infrastructure that balances security, performance, and developer velocity. This includes: - Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure: Scaling services across AWS, OCI, and on-prem components. - Platform Engineering: Creating internal platforms and tooling that empower developers to ship quickly and safely. - Observability & Reliability: Implementing world-class monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices. - Security & Compliance: Embedding guardrails and automation to meet stringent financial-grade security requirements. - Cost Optimization: Ensuring our infra is not just reliable, but also cost-efficient at scale. Why Join us? - Impact at Scale: Shape the infrastructure for financial services used by millions of customers. - Ownership: Own large parts of Navi’s infra roadmap and drive high-quality delivery with operational excellence - Technical Depth: Solve hard distributed systems and infra challenges in a regulated environment. - Leadership & Growth: Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of DevOps and Infra engineers. Come join us to learn, innovate, and build state-of-the-art infrastructure for the future of financial services in India. What We Expect From You - Lead and mentor a team of ~10 engineers, creating a collaborative, growth-oriented, and high-performance environment. - Manage all aspects of your team’s employee lifecycle - including performance reviews, providing feedback, compensation discussions, and leave approvals. - Set clear goals and expectations for individuals and the team; continuously track performance and coach for improvement. - Drive execution of technical deliverables with a focus on quality, timely delivery, and long-term impact. - Collaborate with business, product, compliance and HR stakeholders to align engineering initiatives with company goals. - Provide strong technical direction and hands-on support to ensure delivery of scalable and robust solutions. - Identify potential project risks, remove blockers, and ensure consistent project momentum. - Champion production excellence - including observability, monitoring, and debuggability of systems. - Support hiring efforts through workforce planning, interviewing, and evaluation - with a strong focus on building a diverse and skilled team. Must Haves Technical Skills - 5-7+ years of experience as Devops / SRE / Platform Engineer. - 2+ years of experience managing high-performance, sustainable teams. - Expertise in managing large-scale cloud (preferably AWS and Oracle). - Expertise in managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters. - Strong skills in network services and protocols such as DNS, TLS/SSL, etc - Solid understanding of security - network, service configurations, access control, IAM, etc. - Deep knowledge & experience with Unix / Linux operating systems internals (Eg. filesystems, user management, etc). - Expertise in skill sets for centralized logging systems, metrics, and tooling frameworks such as ELK, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana, etc. - Skilled in managing and building high-scale API gateways, service meshes, and related infrastructure components. - Proficiency in system monitoring, incident management, and driving operational excellence through metrics. - Solid understanding of SDLC best practices (code reviews, testing, CI/CD, on-call processes). - Good understanding of infrastructure cost drivers and ways to keep costs low Soft Skills - Demonstrated ownership and accountability for team outcomes and delivery. - Strong people management skills and stakeholder communication. - Ability to navigate ambiguity, prioritize competing demands, and make trade-offs pragmatically. - Experience driving end-to-end project delivery - including planning, estimation, risk mitigation, and execution tracking. - A continuous improvement mindset, always looking to elevate team efficiency and engineering quality.