Platform Engineering Manager

Job Title: Platform Engineering Manager Location: Gurgaon Employment Type: Full-Time Department: Analytics About Axslogic Axslogic is a fintech analytics enterprise software company that helps financial institutions digitize their lending data analytics while they progress their overall digitization journey. The company's flagship product, Winnow™, creates a new early warning exception management paradigm to manage challenges and risks associated with lending businesses. Founded by domain experts, Axslogic provides cutting-edge business analytics solutions that enable better portfolio performance and improved profitability for financial institutions. The company is headquartered in Singapore, with offices in India and the UAE. Role Overview Axslogic is seeking an experienced and skilled Platform Engineering Manager to join our team and drive the automation, scalability, and security of our cloud-based infrastructure. The ideal candidate will lead efforts to build and maintain a robust cloud platform that supports our patented SaaS / Managed SaaS products providing Early Warning and Predictive Analytic capabilities to financial institutions. This role requires strong expertise in DevOps practices, deep hands-on experience with AWS, and a thorough understanding of IT security as it applies to DevOps and cloud infrastructure. Key Responsibilities: Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps - Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to support agile development practices - Administer, monitor, and optimize AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, EKS, etc.) - Ensure platform deployment in secure Tier III or above Data Centers that offer very high level of uptime (99.982%) with multiple telecom peers, 100% redundant capacity and compliance to ISO 27001:2013 standards - Implement and manage disaster recovery strategies and facilities - Automate infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation - Monitor systems performance, ensure high availability, and troubleshoot issues Security & Compliance - Define and enforce security best practices across development and deployment environments - Implement data encryption mechanisms using asymmetric-symmetric key systems specific to each client - Manage secure SFTP/FTPS servers and ETL processes that handle sensitive financial data - Set up and maintain LDAP/Active Directory based authentication systems - Conduct risk assessments and recommend enhancements to improve overall DevOps security posture - Support compliance with ISO 27001:2013 standards Team Leadership & Collaboration - Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers and DevOps specialists - Collaborate with developers, QA, and security teams to ensure safe and secure deployments - Work with product teams to understand application requirements and design infrastructure solutions - Partner with data science teams to create infrastructure that supports analytics capabilities - Stay current with AWS updates and security trends to proactively enhance systems Required Qualifications: - 8+ years of experience in DevOps or Cloud Engineering roles - Strong expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure management - Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, or similar - Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools: Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi - Solid understanding of IT security principles, especially in DevOps environments (e.g., IAM, secrets management, network security, vulnerability management) - Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS) - Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar - Familiarity with log aggregation, monitoring, and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, Datadog) - Experience with handling sensitive financial data and knowledge of related compliance requirements - Experience with job control platforms like Airflow - Proven track record of leading technical teams and managing complex infrastructure projects Preferred Qualifications: - AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Solutions Architect) - Experience with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA) - Background in scripting development in Bash and Python - Experience with GitOps practices - Knowledge of IBM and Oracle platforms that support analytics solutions - Understanding of financial services domain, particularly lending analytics - Experience with multi-tenant SaaS architectures - Engineering Graduate from a top-tier college Why Join Us? - Work on Winnow™, a cutting-edge patented SaaS platform that provides pre-programmed early warning capabilities and state-of-the-art reporting and analysis for financial institutions - Support a robust solution with over 1500 Alert Thresholds, 250+ Reports with multi-variate segmentation over 60+ dimensions - Build infrastructure for a platform that disrupts traditional manual processes in financial risk management - Use cutting-edge cloud infrastructure tools and participate in advanced security implementations - Help shape a secure and scalable DevOps culture within a fast-growing fintech company - Work with a strong management team with significant domain expertise in Commercial Lending, Banking, and Consumer Financial Services - Competitive salary and benefits - Flexible working arrangements and a collaborative team environment - Join a global team with offices in Singapore, India, and the UAE About Our Technology Stack Our Winnow SaaS platform is implemented using world-class platforms and requires expertise in maintaining a secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure. The platform handles sensitive financial data and powers analytics that help banks and financial institutions make critical business decisions. As Platform Engineering Manager, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of this crucial infrastructure.