DevOps lead

Comviva; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Comviva in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced DevOps/Platform Engineer to own the end-to-end platform strategy, build scalable CI/CD pipelines, and manage IaC across development, test, and production environments.

You will drive deployment standards, HA/DR, security integration, observability, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Development, QA, Security, and Product teams to deliver reliable, secure enterprise applications.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in DevOps/Platform Engineering, SRE or related roles.
• Proven ability to design and manage enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms.
• In-depth IaC experience with Terraform or equivalent.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and Helm-based deployments; cloud and on-prem.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end DevOps/Platform Engineering strategy for enterprise apps.
• Design and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines with industry tools.
• Establish IaC practices, infrastructure provisioning, and governance.
• Define deployment standards, release management, and rollback processes.
• Manage deployments across Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud, and on‑prem.
• Oversee configuration management, secrets, certificates, and DB schema deployment.
• Develop observability frameworks with monitoring, logging, tracing, and dashboards.
• Set SLIs/SLOs and KPIs to improve platform reliability; monitor HA/DR.
• Lead DR drills, resilience testing, and failover strategies; ensure security in pipelines.
• Mentor engineers; collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable platforms.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

SRE

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS

Linux

Bash

Python

SAST

SCA

DAST

Vault

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

ArgoCD

Helm

Vault

Job description

• Own and drive the end-to-end DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy for building, releasing, deploying, and operating enterprise applications across environments.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines using industry-standard tools, ensuring consistency, reusability, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
• Establish and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform or equivalent, including infrastructure provisioning, environment management, and governance.
• Define and implement deployment standards, release management processes, versioning strategies, promotion workflows, rollback mechanisms, and deployment automation.
• Manage containerized and non-containerized application deployments across Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud, and on-premises environments.
• Own configuration management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and automated database schema deployment processes.
• Design and maintain observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and operational health reporting.
• Define and monitor Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational KPIs to improve platform reliability.
• Design, implement, and operate High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions, including Active-Active and Active-Passive architectures.
• Define, monitor, and achieve Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) through effective backup, replication, recovery, and failover strategies.
• Conduct periodic disaster recovery drills, failover testing, restoration exercises, and resilience validation activities.
• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including code quality checks, vulnerability scanning, software composition analysis, and container security validation.
• Enforce security best practices, access controls, credential management, and compliance requirements across the DevOps ecosystem.
• Measure, analyze, and improve software delivery performance through DORA metrics and platform engineering KPIs.
• Lead technical design reviews, establish engineering standards, drive platform modernization initiatives, and mentor engineers across the organization.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, Security, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive the end-to-end DevOps and Platform Engineering strategy for building, releasing, deploying, and operating enterprise applications across environments.
• Design, implement, and manage scalable CI/CD pipelines using industry-standard tools, ensuring consistency, reusability, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
• Establish and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform or equivalent, including infrastructure provisioning, environment management, and governance.
• Define and implement deployment standards, release management processes, versioning strategies, promotion workflows, rollback mechanisms, and deployment automation.
• Manage containerized and non-containerized application deployments across Kubernetes, OpenShift, cloud, and on-premises environments.
• Own configuration management, secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, and automated database schema deployment processes.
• Design and maintain observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, dashboards, and operational health reporting.
• Define and monitor Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and operational KPIs to improve platform reliability.
• Design, implement, and operate High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions, including Active-Active and Active-Passive architectures.
• Define, monitor, and achieve Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) through effective backup, replication, recovery, and failover strategies.
• Conduct periodic disaster recovery drills, failover testing, restoration exercises, and resilience validation activities.
• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including code quality checks, vulnerability scanning, software composition analysis, and container security validation.
• Enforce security best practices, access controls, credential management, and compliance requirements across the DevOps ecosystem.
• Measure, analyze, and improve software delivery performance through DORA metrics and platform engineering KPIs.
• Lead technical design reviews, establish engineering standards, drive platform modernization initiatives, and mentor engineers across the organization.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, Security, Architecture, Infrastructure, and Product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable platforms.

Mandatory Skills

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or related domains.
• Strong hands‑on experience in designing and managing enterprise‑scale CI/CD platforms using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or equivalent technologies.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes orchestration platforms and Helm‑based application deployments.
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies, deployment automation, and platform operations.
• Experience working with public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or private cloud and on‑premises environments.
• Strong knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, load balancing, DNS, IAM, security controls, and environment management.
• Proven experience in designing and managing High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions.
• Practical experience with Active‑Active and/or Active‑Passive deployment topologies, failover, failback, backup, and restore processes.
• Hands‑on experience with observability platforms including monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboarding solutions.
• Experience with secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault or cloud‑native secret management services.
• Strong Linux administration, troubleshooting, and automation skills.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Groovy, or similar.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices including SAST, SCA, DAST, container security scanning, and vulnerability management.
• Strong understanding and practical application of DORA metrics and software delivery performance measurement.
• Proven ability to simplify, standardize, optimize, and scale engineering platforms and deployment processes.
• Excellent problem‑solving, stakeholder management, communication, and technical leadership capabilities.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with database change management and migration tools such as Liquibase or Flyway.
• Exposure to multiple database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, or SQL Server.
• Experience with messaging and event‑streaming platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, or equivalent technologies.
• Hands‑on experience managing API gateways and ingress platforms such as Kong, NGINX, APISIX, KrakenD, or similar solutions.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies and network policy frameworks such as Istio, Linkerd, or Cilium.
• Experience with GitOps practices and tools such as ArgoCD, FluxCD, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience implementing progressive deployment and automated rollback strategies.
• Understanding of multi‑region, multi‑cluster, and multi‑cloud deployment architectures.
• Experience working within regulated industries such as Banking, Financial Services, FinTech, Telecommunications, Healthcare, or other compliance‑driven environments.
• Exposure to chaos engineering, resilience testing, game‑day exercises, and platform reliability programs.
• Knowledge of cloud cost optimization, FinOps practices, and operational efficiency management.
• Relevant certifications in Cloud, Kubernetes, DevOps, Terraform, or Platform Engineering technologies.