Senior DevOps Engineer

DPDzero co; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

DPDzero is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer in Bengaluru to design, build, and scale the infrastructure powering our AI-powered collections platform. You will own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and deployment strategies that ensure performance, reliability, and security at scale.

Responsibilities include designing scalable AWS infrastructure, containerized deployments, and CI/CD optimisations, while mentoring engineers and shaping DevOps standards across teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or infra engineering.
• Strong AWS experience (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch).
• Hands-on Docker and container orchestration.
• Proven CI/CD pipeline development experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable, secure, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Build and maintain containerised deployments with Docker and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes).
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable delivery.
• Partner with engineers to improve application performance and scalability.
• Own availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring/alerting across environments.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance.
• Manage and optimise RDS (PostgreSQL) for integrity and performance.
• Provide infrastructure for in-house hosting used by select lenders and banks.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

Mentoring engineers

DevOps culture

Networking

Problem solving

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

RDS PostgreSQL

Job description

DPDzero ( www.dpdzero.com ) is an AI Collections Company for financial institutions to run collections on autopilot. Our AI platform combines digital nudges, AI voice agents, and ethical human interventions to improve borrower experience, maximise recovery and reduce cost.

DPDzero is trusted by industry leaders like IndusInd Bank, L&T Finance, Tata Capital, Moneyview, Paysense, and others to manage collections from over 1 crore borrowers in India. DPDzero is backed by GMO VenturePartners, Blume Ventures, India Quotient, and SMBC Asia Rising Fund .

About the role

DPDZero is looking for an experienced and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and scale the infrastructure powering our digital collections and recovery platform. This is a high-impact role where you'll own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and deployment strategies that ensure performance, reliability, and security at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable, secure, highly available, and cost‑efficient AWS infrastructure for our platform
• Build and maintain containerised deployments with Docker and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes)
• Develop and optimise CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable delivery
• Partner with engineers to improve application performance and scalability
• Own availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring/alerting across environments
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance
• Manage and optimise RDS (PostgreSQL) for integrity and performance
• Provide infrastructure for in‑house hosting used by select lenders and banks, ensuring data privacy and client‑specific deployments
• Mentor engineers, guide tooling choices, and shape DevOps standards and direction

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong expertise with AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM)
• Hands‑on experience with Docker and container orchestration
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar)
• Experience managing and optimising databases, preferably RDS PostgreSQL
• Strong knowledge of networking, cloud security, and observability (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi)
• Strong problem‑solving, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills
• Experience mentoring engineers and fostering a strong team culture

Good to have:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or other certifications
• Experience with hybrid/on‑premises infrastructure
• Familiarity with financial services, banking, or collections domains
• Exposure to multi‑tenant architectures and secure data hosting