Architect / Technical Team Lead - DevOps & DevSecOps

Role overview

Architect / Technical Team Lead - DevOps & DevSecOps at Betsol

Responsibilities

• You will lead a technical pod of full-stack DevOps/DevSecOps engineers while staying hands-on in the code, the architecture, and the pipelines.
• Maintain the backlog, sequence work against client priorities, and surface risks early.

Required qualifications

• Mandatory Skills A.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Technical Skills Proven experience as technical architect or technical lead Deep cloud architecture experience on any of the following: Azure (preferred), AWS, or GCP (AKS/GKE, App Gateway, VNets, NSGs, Key Vault, Managed Identities, IAM, networking).
• Good to Have Skills Prior staff-augmentation or consulting delivery experience.

Employment details

• Location: Bengaluru [KA] [India]

Application details

• Responsibilities Technical Leadership Own end-to-end architecture across infrastructure, CI/CD, and application layers for cloud portal workloads on Azure and GCP.
• Stay hands-on: contribute IaC modules, pipeline logic, and application code as needed.

About the employer

• Forecast capacity as the pod scales from 2-3 to 5-6 engineers and partner with BETSOL on hiring loops for added seats.

Benefits

• Background in regulated industries (BFSI, healthcare, government).

Additional role details

• This is a player-coach role: you set technical direction across the stack, run design and code reviews, unblock the team, and double as the project manager for the engagement.
• You are the single point of accountability for what the pod ships and how it ships.
• Drive systems-level design: trade-off analysis, reference architectures, reusable Terraform/Ansible/Helm patterns, and platform conventions the team builds against.
• Run code reviews and design reviews.
• Set the quality bar and the definition of done.
• Expect to spend roughly 80% of your time on technical contributions and 20% on team management.
• Champion AI-first development practices across the pod: model-assisted coding, prompt and context discipline, agentic workflows in IDEs and CI, and review of AI-generated output for security and correctness.
• Delivery & Project Management Run the pod as project manager: sprint planning, standups, retrospectives, status reporting to BETSOL and client stakeholders.
• Lead release management, change control, and post-incident reviews.
• People & Mentorship Onboard new engineers, set growth paths, and provide regular one-on-one technical coaching.
• Build a culture of ownership, transparent communication, and continuous learning.
• DevSecOps Governance Embed security, compliance (FedRAMP, FIPS, CIS, ISO, PCI), and observability standards into every delivery the pod produces.
• Partner with client security teams on threat modeling and audit response.
• Looking For 8+ years in software engineering or platform engineering, with at least 2 years leading a delivery team of 3+ engineers.
• Hands-on coding within the last 12 months is required.
• Strong with Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes , and reusable module design.
• CI/CD pipeline design with Jenkins or GitHub Actions including blue/green, canary, and rollback strategies.
• DevSecOps: SAST/DAST/SCA tooling, container and image scanning, supply chain security, secrets/cert/key management with vault solutions.
• Familiarity with security frameworks Observability with any of the following: Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Google Cloud Monitoring, DataDog, Log Analytics; SLO/SLI/error-budget practice.
• Scripting in Bash, Python, or PowerShell .
• Practical experience with AI-first development : working daily with AI coding assistants, building or governing agentic dev workflows, reviewing AI output for quality and security.
• B.
• Soft Skills Excellent written and verbal English; comfortable in US-EST hour stakeholder conversations.
• Calm, structured communication with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and systems thinking.
• Ownership mindset and clear accountability for outcomes.
• Certifications: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, CKA/CKAD, HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
• Ansible ArgoCD Familiarity with security frameworks, such as: FedRAMP, FIPS, CIS Benchmarks, ISO, PCI.
• Full-stack application fluency for portal use cases (modern JS/TS frontend, REST APIs, common backend frameworks).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.