Tech Lead - DevOps

Role overview

Tech Lead - DevOps at Rupeek

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
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Required qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of experience
• Employer experience: 5 years

Employment details

• Location: Bangalore
• Location: Bengaluru [Karnataka] [India]

About the employer

• 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.

Additional role details

• 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