Senior DevOps Engineer

Zerodha Fund House; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Zerodha Fund House is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to join our core engineering team in Bengaluru. You’ll design and operate scalable, secure infrastructure to support real-world financial markets and drive reliability improvements across the stack.

You will own roadmaps, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and implement automated CI/CD, monitoring, and disaster-recovery processes to ensure high availability and compliance.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, or cloud engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, systems architecture, and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes workloads, including security, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/EFK, and Alertmanager.
• Good understanding of HTTP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, caching, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience with AWS security services such as GuardDuty, WAF, Shield, and Security Hub.
• Desirable: MongoDB, Redis, Kafka.
• Strong scripting/automation skills in Bash, Python, Go.
• Experience with disaster recovery, failover, backups, and DR testing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructure for new and existing products.
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to architect solutions and translate requirements into reliable infrastructure.
• Contribute to infrastructure roadmaps, technical direction, and project planning, and drive initiatives from design through implementation.
• Design, operate, and improve AWS and Kubernetes/EKS infrastructure, including networking, security, scaling, and production operations.
• Build and improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Argo Workflows.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Build and improve monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki, and EFK.
• Ensure infrastructure meets required security, audit, compliance, reliability, and operational standards.
• Design, maintain, and periodically test backup and disaster recovery systems, including annual DR exercises.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive long-term improvements.

Skills

Linux

Networking

Distributed systems

System architecture

AWS

Kubernetes / EKS

CI/CD

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting (Bash, Python, Go)

Backup / DR planning

Security awareness

Tools

Terraform

Helm

AWS CDK

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Argo Workflows

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

Go

Python

Bash

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

EFK

Alertmanager

Job description

At Zerodha Fund House, we are redefining the mutual funds landscape to create simple, transparent, and cost-effective investment solutions for millions of Indians. Built by the pioneers behind Zerodha Broking Ltd and Case Platforms Ltd, we are on a mission to empower the next 10 crore investors in India to participate in and grow the capital markets.

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer to join our core engineering team and help build and operate scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure systems supporting real-world financial markets.

The role involves hands-on infrastructure engineering along with architectural ownership, project planning, infrastructure roadmaps, and driving improvements across reliability, security, automation, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructure for new and existing products.
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to architect solutions and translate requirements into reliable infrastructure.
• Contribute to infrastructure roadmaps, technical direction, and project planning, and drive initiatives from design through implementation.
• Design, operate, and improve AWS and Kubernetes/EKS infrastructure, including networking, security, scaling, and production operations.
• Build and improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows using tools such as GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, and Argo Workflows.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation.
• Build and improve monitoring, logging, metrics, and alerting using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Loki, and EFK.
• Ensure infrastructure meets required security, audit, compliance, reliability, and operational standards.
• Design, maintain, and periodically test backup and disaster recovery systems, including annual DR exercises.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and drive long-term improvements.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure, or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, systems architecture, and distributed systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes workloads, including security, networking, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/EFK, and Alertmanager.
• Good understanding of HTTP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, caching, and service-to-service communication.
• Experience with AWS security services such as GuardDuty, WAF, Shield, and Security Hub.
• Experience with databases/messaging systems such as MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka is desirable.
• Strong scripting/automation skills in Bash, Python, Go, or similar.
• Experience with disaster recovery, failover, backups, and DR testing.
• Ability to independently plan, prioritize, and drive infrastructure projects from design to execution.

Good To Have

• Experience in financial services, fintech, capital markets, or other regulated environments.
• Understanding of SEBI/regulatory audit requirements.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking.
• Experience with open-source tooling and a strong inclination towards automation.
• Interest in financial markets and technology.