Tech Lead - DevOps

Rupeek's infrastructure spans RFPL and RCPL — customer-facing apps, lending core, ledger systems, and operations — running on AWS with EKS as the primary compute plane. Dev Ops is a horizontal function serving all engineering pods, and also owns the interface with Infosec on audits, RBI/DPDP compliance evidence, and incident response. The Tech lead Devops is the senior-most engineer in the team and its technical lead. This person sets standards, mentors the team, and owns infrastructure vision. Job Title: Tech Lead - Devops Experience: 5 to 8 years of experience Location: Bangalore Key RESPONSIBILITIES: Senior-most Dev Ops engineer; technical lead for the Dev Ops team Sets vision and direction for Rupeek's infrastructure — cloud architecture, Kubernetes platform, CI/CD, observability, cost, and reliability. Owns infrastructure-as-code standards — Terraform module design, state management, drift detection, and review process. Owns the production readiness bar — every service that ships production traffic clears standards this person defines. Partners with Infosec to pass audits (RBI IT Outsourcing, SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPDP) and due diligence (lender, investor, partner). Leads incident response from the infra side — the person on the call when the blast radius is large. Mentors junior and mid Dev Ops engineers; runs design and code reviews for the team. Represents Dev Ops in architecture reviews for major product initiatives. Sets AI-fluency standards for the Dev Ops team — tooling, prompt patterns, safe use of AI in production workflows. Peer to senior SDE IIIs across product pods. Must have skills: Cloud & Kubernetes Deep AWS — VPC design, IAM, EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, KMS, cost architecture, multi-AZ / multi-region trade-offs. EKS operations — node group strategy, cluster upgrades, addons lifecycle, admission controllers, network policies, PSA. Comfortable debugging at layers others can't — kernel/OS, container runtime, CNI, etcd, control plane. Infrastructure as Code Terraform mastery — module design, remote state, workspaces vs directories, provider version discipline, testing (terratest, tflint, checkov). Has designed and enforced Ia C standards across a team — including PR review process, plan/apply gating, and drift detection. Opinion on Terraform vs Pulumi vs CDK, and why they picked what they picked. CI/CD & SDLC Has built and operated production CI/CD pipelines with strong controls — immutable artifact tagging, signed artifacts (cosign or equivalent), promotion gates, per-environment approvals. Familiar with supply chain security — SLSA levels, SBOMs, dependency pinning, supply chain (npm/Py PI) incident response. Comfortable with Git Ops patterns Observability & Reliability Deep in Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and Pager Duty — from scrape config to SLO-driven alerting Has designed on-call rotations, runbooks, and blameless post-mortem culture. Comfortable with distributed tracing (Open Telemetry, Jaeger, or similar) and structured logging. Security & Compliance Has partnered with Infosec through at least one major audit (SOC 2, ISO 27001, RBI, or equivalent). Strong on secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, KMS), workload identity (IRSA), and least-privilege IAM Understands regulated-industry constraints — data localization, PII handling, audit trails, evidence collection. Has responded to real security incidents — DDo S, credential leaks, supply chain compromise, or similar. Scripting & Automation Strong in Python or Go — writes production-quality automation, not just glue scripts. Bash fluency; comfortable with the standard Linux toolchain. AI Fluency Uses AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as part of daily workflow. Has opinions on where AI helps and where it hurts in the Dev Ops SDLC. Can articulate what "AI-safe" infrastructure change management looks like. Leadership Has mentored junior and mid engineers; visible track record of growing people. Writes well — runbooks, RFCs, post-mortems Insists on high standards; can hold the line on production readiness without becoming a bottleneck. Comfortable pushing back on product timelines when infra risk is real. Persona: Engineering degree in Computer Science or related Has held a "senior-most Dev Ops / SRE / Platform" role at least once before, in a company where the infra actually mattered. Fintech, payments, or regulated-industry background strongly preferred. Recent hands-on work — has written Terraform and touched a cluster in the last month. Comfortable being the escalation point at 2am. Show more Show less Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Industries Financial Services, Banking, and Software Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Rupeek by 2x See who you know Get notified about new Dev Ops Manager jobs in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India . Sign in to create job alert