Senior Manager CTO Cloud Engineering

mgpru; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

M&G India is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design and deliver cloud infrastructure and automation. You will mentor teammates, Champion secure governance and SDLC practices, and drive CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

A background in Kubernetes, OpenShift, Terraform, and scripting is essential for success. The role requires 7–10 years of relevant experience, a graduate or masters degree, and a hands-on, collaborative mindset in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and delivering Azure infrastructure with governance.
• Hands-on with containerisation and Kubernetes implementations.
• Strong scripting and automation for CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to mentor and share knowledge within an Agile/Scrum/Kanban setup.
• Experience with Azure resources, networking, and security controls.
• Proven ability to work with minimal supervision on complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver complex Azure infrastructure solutions ensuring security and governance best practices.
• Develop applications or scripts in the language of choice to meet business needs.
• Act as SME for the product/project, validate technical changes and maintain delivery standards.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and dissect problems with minimal instructions.
• Mentor team members and promote collaboration across the team.
• Articulate business value to senior stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Understand risks and controls around cloud-based applications.
• Follow the team’s SDLC and Agile practices (Jira/Confluence).
• Collaborate with peers across levels for experiential learning.
• Focus on scalability, resilience, security, and reducing technical debt.
• Share best practices and mentor others to advance the cloud community.
• Create and maintain build/release pipelines in Azure DevOps for deployments.

Skills

DevOps

Azure

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

CI/CD

PowerShell

Shell scripting

GitOps

Networking

Education

Graduate / Masters in any discipline

Tools

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Packer/Ansible

ARM templates

Job description

About M&G India

We are M&G India, the strategic innovation and digital hub for M&G. Established in 2003, we have offices in Mumbai and Pune.

Our teams work closely with colleagues across the Group worldwide to drive transformation, build digital capability, and support sustainable growth. By leveraging technology, AI, automation, and process excellence, we bring new ways of thinking to improve outcomes for both customers and colleagues.

Grounded in a vibrant culture with strong foundations, we are central to how M&G is transforming as a business.

About M&G

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Design and deliver complex Azure infrastructure solutions ensuring security and governance best practices are followed
• Embrace and adapt to the changing environment by developing applications or script in the language of choice.
• Torch bearer for the team - being a SME or go to person for the product/project. Validate and challenge the technical changes by maintaining the high standard for the delivery. Keep very relevant to the technology space.
• Can develop products with little instructions, should be able to troubleshoot in case of adverse incident and should be able to dissect complex problems.
• Should be able to Mentor the team members, proactively look for sharing the knowledge and encourage collaboration.
• Should be able to clearly articulate business values to the senior stakeholders and manage their expectation well.
• Understand the risk and controls around the applications running in cloud.
• Follow the software development lifecycle defined within the team.
• Be able to appreciate truly Agile ways of working/development using tools like Jira/Confluence.
• Collaborate with peers across various levels for experiential learnings.
• Focus on Scalability, resilience, security, quality and continuous rigour to reduce technical debt.
• Advance the cloud community through sharing of best practice and mentoring others.
• Create and maintain build and release pipelines across Azure DevOps projects in order to support infrastructure deployments.

Knowledge & Skills: Required

• Automation and DevOps at the heart of all work you tackle
• Created solutions using containerisation and hands on experience in Kubernetes implementations (Preferably Azure redhat Openshift / OpenShift)
• Proficiency in developing infrastructure automation scripts using Terraform
• Thorough understanding of Continuous integration and continuous delivery using YAML & Azure DevOps.
• Comfortable with ARM templates, Shell script and Azure Power Shell scripts which can then be provided to application teams as consumables.
• Good working and hands on knowledge of Azure core infrastructure resources
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to independently solve problems and build robust solutions and enjoy working with minimal supervision within an Agile/Scrum/Kanban environment
• Proficiency in Integration of various Azure resources ( IaaS and PaaS - SQL DB, App Service, Application Insights, Storage accounts etc) to deliver an end-to-end automation.
• Proficiency and thorough understanding of Azure RBAC model .
• Good grasp of Azure governance principles and hands‑on experience in rolling out compliance and governance polices.
• Knowledge around building VM images using Packer/Ansible or any config management tool.
• Sound understanding of networking knowledge on DNS and Firewall security like Palo Alto.
• Experience with containers, registries, and related orchestration technologies ( Kubernetes , Helm charts ). Knowledge of GitOps and the most common tools

Experience

Minimum 7-10 years of relevant experience and 10 years of industry experience who can showcase delivering with the help of the team by taking responsibility end to end

Educational Qualification

• Graduate/Masters in any discipline
• Cloud certifications would be an added advantage

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G Global Services, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.