PHI - CI/CD Devops Engineer

Prudential's purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people's career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

Prudential's purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured—for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people's career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

At Prudential Health India (PHI), we are on a mission to make Indians healthier, while bridging the health protection gap. This is a Zero-to-One team undertaking a greenfield health insurance deployment in India committed to building journeys that truly empathise with the customer and offer a differentiated, bespoke experience.

To partner us in this mission, we are looking for a talented candidate for the role of…

CI/CD DevOps Engineer

Note: The title will depend on (1) Experience (2) Expertise and (3) Performance. So the title could be:

• DevOps Engineer
• Senior DevOps Engineer
• Lead DevOps Engineer

Individual Contributor Role

Experience: 4–12 years
Location:  Mumbai
Work Mode: Work from office only

Job Profile Summary

PHI is building a cloud-native, microservices-oriented, loosely coupled & open technology platform, tightly aligned to the health insurance domain. The platform will support massively large-scale distributed systems and products across multi-cloud infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

The CI/CD DevOps Engineer will be responsible for:

• Building and operating cloud infrastructure including release management, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, alerting, database management, infrastructure security, and site reliability engineering.
• Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines that support high availability % uptime), instant failover.
• Creating reusable infrastructure development frameworks and standards for backend and frontend deployment.
• Collaborating across engineering, product, R&D, and analytics teams to deliver robust, scalable, and secure systems.
• Mentoring technical staff on DevSecOps principles and ensuring adherence to architecture and coding standards.
• Forecasting and optimising software licence and infrastructure costs.

Job Description

• Participate in all stages of the development lifecycle—from requirements gathering to production deployment and proactive monitoring.
• Define and implement standards for seamless backend and frontend deployment.
• Develop specifications, write code, conduct unit and performance testing, and support rollout and launch.
• Ensure systems are running and available through proactive monitoring and alerting.
• Manage internal and external interfaces and communications.
• Drive adoption of user behavioural analytics using crashalytics and event tracking.
• Stay current with bleeding-edge technologies and frameworks to bring differentiation through innovation.
• Implement and manage SAST (Static Application Security Testing), SCA (Software Composition Analysis), and DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) tools and processes for secure code delivery.

Who We Are Looking For

Technical Skills & Work Experience

• Bachelor's in Engineering from a recognised institute.
• 4–12 years of hands-on experience in DevOps and site reliability engineering.
• Proven track record in building and managing CI/CD pipelines for large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience with GCP services including GKE, Cloud Build, Cloud Functions, and IAM.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Firestore.
• Experience with security tools and platforms including Checkmarx, HashiCorp Vault, GitHub, GitHub Actions, and Azure AD.
• Familiarity with Terraform, Kafka, Zookeeper, Prometheus, Elasticsearch.
• Prior experience in health/life insurance, wellness, payments, financial services, or health tech domains.

Personal Traits

• Passionate about building consumer-centric products that improve health outcomes.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to work independently.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, agile environments with fluid requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate system-wide platform decisions and trade-offs.

What Can Make You Extra Special

• Experience in building high-performance, highly available platforms with 24x7 service stability.
• Prior involvement in audit processes and self-healing infrastructure.
• Real stories of challenging convention and delivering impact through innovation.

Language

Fluent written and spoken English

Equal Opportunity Statement

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity and benefits for all who apply and perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability, part-time/fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part-time / fixed-term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third-party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.