Sr. DevOps PaaS (AACOE) Technology Engineer

We are seeking an innovative and experienced DevOps Engineer to support Advance Analytics COE Squads.

Job Purpose - What is the unique contribution made by the job holder?)

The Senior Technology Engineer will be responsible for managing deliverables of the squad which includes building and executing pipelines. The position plays a key role in driving the engineering function for the technologies he/she is responsible for.

The engineer will be responsible for implementing all changes and delivering new technology into the bank by onboarding customers and applications to the platform via self-service and automation.

The engineer will work closely with other platform and product teams in educating them on new platform, services and features to ensure any transition and to ensure that consumption is optimal. The teams operate using Agile, DevOps and Product Management methodologies, delivering work packages based on the priority in the backlog.

Job Content (Describe the key results delivered by the job holder, how they are measured, and the tasks performed to achieve the results?)

Technology Engineering

• Experienced in DevOps methodologies.
• Sound infrastructure and security knowledge
• Clear internal and external communication, improving transparency across teams and stakeholders.
• Automate deployment and configuration management tasks to ensure consistent and scalable environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and application issues in collaboration with development and operations teams.
• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for deployments on Container Technologies like Native Kubernetes, OpenShift or Public Cloud like Microsoft Azure/AWS/OCI.
• Sound Knowledge on Micro Service Authentication and Authorization process.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, deploy, and manage different environments using Terraform, Ansible, and other IaC tools.
• Sound Knowledge on Public Cloud providers like Microsoft Azure/AWS/OCI.
• Strong understanding of GitHub Actions or Jenkins-based Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CICD) with automation using Shared Library, Pipeline Code, Groovy or Python scripting.
• Understanding of GitOps tool like Argo CD.
• Strong understanding on logging and monitoring solutions like ELK, Prometheus and Grafana
• Python programming experience preferred.

Delivery Experience

• Ability to work on projects from inception to delivery exhibiting our core values - Collaboration, Ownership, Drive and Enterprising.
• Cross skills in delivery but also operational support as per new DevOps methodologies
• Comprehensive understanding of DevOps / SRE, IaC and 12 Factor application principles
• Ability to work under pressure, manage client expectations effectively.
• Stay up to date with industry best practices and emerging technologies.

Education

• Bachelor or Equivalent Degree
• 5+ years total engineering or operational experience

Essential

Experiences

• At least 7 years of relevant experience in a similar role.
• Experience within large and complex global enterprises defined by high availability, transaction rates, and geographical distribution.
• Banking sector experience

Knowledge & Skills

• Technical

Technical/Functional:

• Automated build/deployment pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) for Python based projects.
• Automation using tools like Ansible.
• Containerization (Docker or Podman)
• Python programming experience required.
• Data or Machine learning CI/CD pipelines
• Linux OS including shell scripting.
• Container management (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
• Helm based pipelines.
• Automating security/regulatory checks
• Automated patching
• Production support (typically done on rotation)
• Agile engineering and practices
• Networking fundamentals
• Security engineering practice and tools

Nice to have:

• Public Cloud experience (Azure, OCI, AWS)
• Machine Learning projects

Behavioral Competencies

• Collaboration
• Self-starter with strong initiative
• Calm under pressure
• Pragmatic but focused
• Willing to learn new technologies.
• Good communication and articulation skills

Desirable

S​YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
 

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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