Infra Team Manager

Job description

**[About the role]** We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer to own the end-to-end cloud infrastructure, reliability, security, and CI/CD platforms for our platform products. This is a high-ownership, hands-on role responsible for building and operating production-grade infrastructure that supports high availability, regulatory compliance, scalability, and cost efficiency. You will act as the platform backbone for fast-moving product and engineering teams. **[Key Responsibilities]** **Infrastructure & Platform** - Design, deploy, and operate cloud-native infrastructure on AWS or Azure - Own Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructure across environments (prod, staging, dev) - Define infra standards, environments, networking, and release guardrails - Manage databases, caches, queues, and supporting infra from a platform perspective **Reliability & Availability** - Define and enforce SLOs / SLAs for critical user and payment flows - Build for high availability, auto-scaling, and fault tolerance - Implement zero-downtime deployments and safe rollout strategies - Own incident response, postmortems (RCA), and preventive action plans - Plan capacity and scaling for traffic spikes and seasonal peaks **CI/CD & Release Engineering** - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend, frontend, and mobile applications - Standardize deployment pipelines with rollback, approvals, and auditability - Enable faster, safer releases without compromising reliability **Observability & Monitoring** - Own the observability stack across services and infrastructure - Implement monitoring for: - Latency, throughput, error rates - Infrastructure health - Payment and checkout flows - Define alerting strategies aligned with business impact, not noise **Security & Compliance** - Own platform-level security posture and compliance readiness - Implement and manage: - Secrets management and key rotation - IAM, RBAC, and least-privilege access - Network security, TLS, WAFs, and audit logging - Partner with security/compliance stakeholders during audits and reviews - Ensure infrastructure is audit-ready (logs, access trails, change history) **Cost & Efficiency** - Monitor and optimize cloud costs across environments - Design infra with cost-efficiency in mind without sacrificing reliability - Provide visibility into infra usage and cost drivers **[Required Experience]** - 4+ years of experience in DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineering - Hands-on experience running production-grade Kubernetes workloads - Experience supporting high-availability, high-throughput systems - Strong understanding of microservices infrastructure - Experience working with fintech, payments, or transaction-heavy systems - Proven ownership of uptime, reliability, and incident management **Expected Tech Exposure** - Cloud: AWS or Azure - Containers: Docker, Kubernetes - CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Fastlane - Infrastructure as Code: Terraform / ARM / Pulumi - Databases & Caches: PostgreSQL, Redis - Messaging: Kafka / Event Hubs - Security: Vaults, SSL/TLS, key rotation, network policies - Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Sentry **Good-to-Have** - Experience with UPI, wallets, payment gateways, or banking systems - Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid environments - Familiarity with compliance standards (PCI-DSS, SOC-style controls, audit workflows) - Experience defining SLOs, error budgets, and release safety mechanisms **You’ll Be Successful If** - You think in systems, reliability, and failure scenarios - You proactively prevent outages, not just react to them - You enjoy owning infrastructure end-to-end, not just tooling - You build platforms that enable product teams to move fast, safely - You’re comfortable being accountable for uptime, security, and scale