Overview

Company Description

Responsibilities

• The Lead, DevOps and Platform Engineering will lead the development and management of core infrastructure, cloud platforms, and reliability engineering capabilities at Kotak Securities. This full-time role is based in Mumbai or Bengaluru and reports to the Head of SRE. The ideal candidate will have 10–15 years of
• experience in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, including strong technical leadership experience.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering, or site reliability engineering, including at least 3 years of engineering leadership experience.
• Deep hands-on expertise in production Kubernetes environments, including cluster architecture, control plane operations, upgrades, networking, service mesh, autoscaling, and resource management.
• Strong experience designing and managing cloud and on-premise infrastructure using Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Expertise in AWS or comparable cloud platforms, including VPC architecture, subnet design, private connectivity, load balancing, DNS, IAM, and cloud security.
• Proven experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and release engineering using tools such as ArgoCD, Flux, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, kernel tuning, networking, TCP/IP, filesystem performance, and troubleshooting using tools such as perf and eBPF.
• Hands-on programming experience in Go, Python, or equivalent languages for developing automation, platform tooling, Kubernetes operators, or controllers.
• Experience designing container infrastructure, including image hardening, vulnerability scanning, artifact signing, registry management, and software supply chain security.
• Expertise in observability and monitoring platforms, including OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, metrics, logging pipelines, APM, and incident management integrations.
• Strong understanding of site reliability engineering practices, including service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, incident response, postmortems, and change management.
• Experience implementing progressive delivery, automated rollbacks, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies for mission-critical systems.
• Proven experience in infrastructure capacity planning, performance engineering, load testing, and optimization of latency-sensitive applications.
• Experience leading datacenter or cloud migration initiatives, including hybrid connectivity, network architecture, environment parity, cutover planning, and disaster recovery.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure security, including secrets management, PKI, certificate lifecycle, workload identity, privileged access management, and policy-as-code frameworks such as OPA or Sentinel.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure costs, including resource rightsizing, capacity optimization, commitment strategies, and cost attribution.
• Experience operating highly available, business-critical systems where downtime has significant commercial or regulatory consequences.
• Strong understanding of regulatory compliance, audit requirements, change control processes, and segregation of duties in enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Prior experience in capital markets, banking, payments, trading platforms, or another regulated financial services environment is preferred.
• Knowledge of low-latency trading infrastructure, exchange connectivity, market data systems, colocation environments, and PTP/NTP clock synchronization is advantageous.
• Experience with datacenter networking technologies, including BGP, hybrid routing, and firewall infrastructure migration, is beneficial.
• Operational experience managing databases and messaging systems such as PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, or MongoDB, including replication, failover, and backup verification, is preferred.
• Familiarity with SEBI CSCRF, RBI cybersecurity guidelines, or comparable regulatory frameworks is advantageous.
• Experience building a platform engineering or observability function from the ground up is highly desirable.
• Strong technical leadership, architectural decision-making, troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and cross-functional collaboration skills.