Devops - III

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 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.

What We Expect From You

• Develop deep understanding of the end-to-end configurations, dependencies, customer requirements, and overall characteristics of the production services as the accountable owner for overall service operations
• Implementing best practices, challenging the status quo, and tab on industry and technical trends,
• changes, and developments to ensure the team is always striving for best-in-class work
• Lead incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to resolve issues quickly and minimize downtime. Implement effective incident management processes and post-incident reviews
• Participate in on-call rotation responsibilities, ensuring timely identification and resolution of infrastructure issues
• Possess expertise in designing and implementing capacity plans, accurately estimating costs and efforts for infrastructure needs.
• Systems and Infrastructure maintenance and ownership for production environments, with a continued focus on improving efficiencies, availability, and supportability through automation and well defined runbooks
• Provide mentorship and guidance to a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment. Mentor team members in best practices, technologies, and methodologies.
• Design for Reliability - Architect & implement solutions that keeps Navi’s Infrastructure running with Always On availability and ensures high uptime SLA for the Infrastructure
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables related to your technical expertise and assigned domains
• Collaborate with Product & Information Security teams to ensure the integrity and security of Infrastructure and applications. Implement security best practices and compliance standards

Must Haves

• 5-7 years of experience as Devops / SRE / Platform Engineer
• Strong expertise in automating Infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Helm Charts etc
• Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP, etc
• Expertise in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS and Oracle)
• Expertise in managing production grade Kubernetes clusters
• Experience in scripting using programming languages like Bash, Python, etc.
• Expertise in skill sets for centralized logging systems, metrics, and tooling frameworks such as ELK, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana etc.
• Experience in Managing and building High scale API Gateway, Service Mesh, etc
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language
• Deep knowledge & experience with Unix / Linux operating systems internals (Eg. filesystems, user management, etc)
• A working knowledge and deep understanding of cloud security concepts
• Proven track record of driving results and delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical project stakeholders, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

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

Our Culture

The Navi DNA

Ambition. Perseverance. Self-awareness. Ownership. Integrity.

We’re looking for people who dream big when it comes to innovation. At Navi, you’ll be empowered with the right mechanisms to work in a dynamic team that builds and improves innovative solutions. If you’re driven to deliver real value to customers, no matter the challenge, this is the place for you.

We chase excellence by uplifting each other—and that starts with every one of us.

Why You'll Thrive at Navi

At Navi, it’s about how you think, build, and grow. You’ll thrive here if:

• You’re impact-driven
• You take ownership, build boldly, and care about making a real difference.
• You strive for excellence
• Good isn’t good enough. You bring focus, precision, and a passion for quality.
• You embrace change
• You adapt quickly, move fast, and always put the customer first.