Senior Staff Engineer

StoneX Group Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,800,000; Full time

Job summary

StoneX Group Inc. is seeking an experienced Software Engineer to own and evolve our Kubernetes platform, focusing on automation, GitOps, and scalable CI/CD pipelines. You will lead upgrades, ensure security, and collaborate across engineering, security, and operations to deliver reliable platform services.

The role emphasizes hands-on platform work, strong troubleshooting, and mentoring teammates while balancing speed and compliance in a hybrid office setting in Bengaluru.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform, SRE, or DevOps with deep production Kubernetes experience.
• Ownership of complex systems and driving platform-level initiatives.
• Strong GitOps, CI/CD architecture, and Infrastructure as Code expertise.
• Advanced troubleshooting across large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong communication and cross-team influence.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Kubernetes platforms and define upgrades, scaling, and HA architectures.
• Lead automation initiatives using Terraform, Helm/Kustomize, and CI/CD workflows.
• Own GitOps with Argo CD including deployments, drift detection, and rollback strategies.
• Define secure CI/CD patterns with identity-based access, approvals, and immutable audit trails.
• Set strategy for container supply chain security and registry governance.
• Own platform observability with SLOs, dashboards, and capacity hygiene.
• Collaborate with engineering, infra, and security leaders on platform adoption and runbooks.
• Act as a technical leader, mentoring engineers and guiding roadmap planning.
• Ensure security and compliance controls are built into the platform by default.

Skills

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Platform ownership

Automation

Communication

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Helm/Kustomize

Argo CD

Rancher/RKE2

AKS

Job description

Overview

Connecting clients to markets, and talent for opportunity. With 4,300 employees and over 400,000 retail and institutional clients from more than 80 offices across five continents, we are a Fortune 100, Nasdaq listed provider connecting clients to global markets. We focus on innovation, human connection, and deliver world class products and services to all types of investors.

As a Software Engineer on the Containers team, you’ll build, run, and continuously improve our Kubernetes platform, the foundation for application delivery. You’ll work hands‑on with cluster operations, networking, ingress, storage, and core platform services, partnering closely with development, security, and operations teams to support day‑to‑day platform needs and drive automation through infrastructure as code and CI/CD. Using cloud-native and open-source tools, you’ll help keep the platform scalable, reliable, and secure while improving performance and developer experience so teams can ship faster and with confidence.

This is a highly hands‑on role where your work directly shapes developer experience and platform reliability, enabling teams across the company to ship faster, safer, and at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Kubernetes platforms (Rancher/RKE2 or AKS), defining standards for upgrades, scaling strategies, performance tuning, cost/capacity management, backups, and HA architecture.
• Design and lead automation and golden path initiatives, including Terraform modules, Helm/ Kustomize frameworks, reusable CI/CD workflows, and scalable self‑service onboarding.
• Own GitOps architecture with Argo CD, including digest‑pinned deployments, policy‑as‑code, image signing/SBOM integration, drift detection, and rollback strategies.
• Define and harden CI/CD patterns that balance speed, security, and compliance, including identity‑based cloud access, approvals, and immutable audit trails.
• Set strategy for container supply chain security and registry governance (ACR), including promotion models and immutability.
• Own platform observability, defining SLOs, alerting standards, dashboards, and capacity hygiene across clusters.
• Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, and security leaders on platform adoption, incident response, runbooks, and long‑term planning.
• Act as a technical leader on the team: mentoring engineers, influencing design decisions, and contributing to roadmap planning.
• Ensure security and compliance controls are built into the platform by default without slowing delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform, SRE, or DevOps roles with deep production Kubernetes experience.
• Proven ownership of complex systems and experience driving platform‑level initiatives.
• Strong expertise in GitOps, CI/CD architecture, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills across large‑scale distributed systems.
• Strong communication skills and experience influencing across teams.

What makes you stand out

• Experience with Rancher/RKE2 or AKS in production environments.
• Familiarity with policy‑as‑code, image signing, SBOMs, or regulated CI/CD environments.
• Experience integrating AI/ML‑driven automation into containerized infrastructure and DevOps workflows.

Education / Certification Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Preferred certifications: Terraform Associate, Kubernetes certifications such as CKA or CKAD.
• Commitment to continual professional and technical development.

Working environment

• Hybrid, four days in the office.
• Occasional travel required for team collaboration meetings and conferences.