R&D DevSecOps Consultant Architect

SBS is a global financial technology company that's helping banks and the financial services industry to reimagine how to operate in an increasingly digital world. SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societé Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS. Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance. With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia's Universe: Digital Banking Platforms.

About the Role

Join us as a Senior DevOps Architect for a fintech product company building a cloud-native core banking and payments SaaS platform for the European market. In this high-impact role, you will own the strategic design and implementation of our DevOps ecosystem, ensuring our platform is scalable, reliable, secure, and built for speed. With deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD, you'll lead by example, mentor engineers, and shape our engineering culture. You'll architect enterprise-grade DevOps solutions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enabling seamless delivery of a platform that handles sensitive financial transactions under strict regulatory standards.

This is a hands-on leadership and architecture role where you will influence technology choices, drive operational excellence, and ensure DevOps practices are embedded across the product lifecycle.

What You'll Do (Responsibilities)

1. Architect Enterprise DevOps Solutions: Design and implement large-scale DevOps architectures across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
2. Drive CI/CD Excellence: Build, optimize, and standardize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.) to enable secure, high-availability releases with zero-downtime deployments.
3. Automate Infrastructure: Lead infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm, ensuring infrastructure-as-code practices are consistently applied.
4. Champion DevOps Governance: Define and enforce DevOps governance, standards, and best practices across development and operations teams. Establish guardrails for compliance (PCI DSS, GDPR, PSD2) and operational security.
5. Embed Security & Resilience: Collaborate with architects, developers, and security teams to integrate DevSecOps practices, ensuring systems are hardened, compliant, and resilient to failures.
6. Lead Containerization & Orchestration: Drive adoption of Docker and Kubernetes for containerization, orchestration, and workload scaling. Define strategies for microservices deployments and service discovery.
7. Implement Observability & Reliability: Build and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, CloudWatch). Apply SRE principles to track SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and improve reliability.
8. Evaluate Emerging Tech: Continuously assess new DevOps tools and technologies (service mesh, GitOps, AI-driven automation) and integrate them where they add value.
9. Mentor & Influence: Guide and coach DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation, learning, and operational excellence. Act as a thought leader for DevOps across the organization.

Technologies You'll Work With

1. Cloud & Infra: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation.
2. CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes.
3. Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, ELK stack, Grafana, CloudWatch.
4. Security & Governance: DevSecOps practices, compliance (GDPR, PCI DSS, PSD2).
5. Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub).

Total Experience Expected: 11-15 years

What You'll Bring (Qualifications & Experience)

1. Extensive DevOps & IT Experience: 15 years in IT, including 8 years in DevOps and 3 years in an architect-level role. Proven success in designing DevOps solutions for complex, distributed systems.
2. Cloud Platform Mastery: Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP, with hands-on experience in hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
3. Infrastructure-as-Code Skills: Strong proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, with experience in Helm charts for Kubernetes workloads.
4. CI/CD Expertise: Solid track record with Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and other modern CI/CD tools. You can design and optimize pipelines for security, speed, and reliability.
5. Containerization & Orchestration: Expert in Docker and Kubernetes, with a deep understanding of scaling, clustering, and workload distribution.
6. Security & Networking Knowledge: Solid foundation in networking, system administration, and security hardening across cloud-native platforms.
7. Agile & DevSecOps Mindset: Experience working in Agile environments, embedding DevOps practices into development lifecycles, and adopting DevSecOps approaches.
8. Leadership & Collaboration: Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills. Capable of influencing teams, driving alignment, and mentoring engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Cloud and DevOps certifications (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Expert, CKA/CKAD).
2. Proven experience deploying and managing microservices on Kubernetes, including Helm-based packaging and rollout.
3. Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and microservices-based deployments.
4. Familiarity with SRE practices – incident response, error budgets, chaos testing.
5. Knowledge of scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash) for automation and tooling.

Secondary Location: Noida Campus

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