Company Description
SBS is a global financial technology company that’s helping banks and the financial services industry to reimagine how to operate in an increasingly digital world. SBS is a trusted partner of more than 1,500 financial institutions and large-scale lenders in 80 countries worldwide, including Santander, Societé Generale, KCB Bank, Kensington Mortgages, Mercedes-Benz, and Toyota FS. Its cloud platform offers clients a composable architecture to digitize operations, ranging from banking, lending, compliance, to payments, and consumer and asset finance. With 3,400 employees in 50 offices, SBS is recognized as a Top 10 European Fintech company by IDC and as a leader in Omdia’s Universe: Digital Banking Platforms.
About the Role
Join us as a Senior DevOps Architect for a fintech product company building a
cloud-native core banking and payments SaaS platform
for the European market. In this high-impact role, you will own the
strategic design and implementation of our DevOps ecosystem
, ensuring our platform is scalable, reliable, secure, and built for speed. With deep expertise in
cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD
, you’ll lead by example, mentor engineers, and shape our engineering culture. You’ll architect enterprise-grade DevOps solutions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enabling seamless delivery of a platform that handles sensitive financial transactions under strict regulatory standards.This is a hands-on
leadership and architecture
role where you will influence technology choices, drive operational excellence, and ensure DevOps practices are embedded across the product lifecycle.
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)
- Architect Enterprise DevOps Solutions: Design and implement large-scale DevOps architectures across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) with a focus on scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Drive CI/CD Excellence: Build, optimize, and standardize CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.) to enable secure, high-availability releases with zero-downtime deployments.
- Automate Infrastructure: Lead infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and Helm, ensuring infrastructure-as-code practices are consistently applied.
- Champion DevOps Governance: Define and enforce DevOps governance, standards, and best practices across development and operations teams. Establish guardrails for compliance (PCI DSS, GDPR, PSD2) and operational security.
- Embed Security & Resilience: Collaborate with architects, developers, and security teams to integrate DevSecOps practices, ensuring systems are hardened, compliant, and resilient to failures.
- Lead Containerization & Orchestration: Drive adoption of Docker and Kubernetes for containerization, orchestration, and workload scaling. Define strategies for microservices deployments and service discovery.
- Implement Observability & Reliability: Build and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks (Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, CloudWatch). Apply SRE principles to track SLIs/SLOs/SLAs and improve reliability.
- Evaluate Emerging Tech: Continuously assess new DevOps tools and technologies (service mesh, GitOps, AI-driven automation) and integrate them where they add value.
- Mentor & Influence: Guide and coach DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of automation, learning, and operational excellence. Act as a thought leader for DevOps across the organization.
Technologies You’ll Work With
- Cloud & Infra: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, CloudFormation.
- CI/CD & DevOps: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, ELK stack, Grafana, CloudWatch.
- Security & Governance: DevSecOps practices, compliance (GDPR, PCI DSS, PSD2).
- Collaboration Tools: Jira, Confluence, Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub).
Total Experience Expected: 14-18 years
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Extensive DevOps & IT Experience: 15+ years in IT, including 8+ years in DevOps and 3+ years in an architect-level role. Proven success in designing DevOps solutions for complex, distributed systems.
- Cloud Platform Mastery: Deep expertise in AWS, Azure, and GCP, with hands-on experience in hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.
- Infrastructure-as-Code Skills: Strong proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible, with experience in Helm charts for Kubernetes workloads.
- CI/CD Expertise: Solid track record with Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, and other modern CI/CD tools. You can design and optimize pipelines for security, speed, and reliability.
- Containerization & Orchestration: Expert in Docker and Kubernetes, with a deep understanding of scaling, clustering, and workload distribution.
- Security & Networking Knowledge: Solid foundation in networking, system administration, and security hardening across cloud-native platforms.
- Agile & DevSecOps Mindset: Experience working in Agile environments, embedding DevOps practices into development lifecycles, and adopting DevSecOps approaches.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills. Capable of influencing teams, driving alignment, and mentoring engineers.
- Cloud and DevOps certifications (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Expert, CKA/CKAD).
- Proven experience deploying and managing microservices on Kubernetes, including Helm-based packaging and rollout.
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and microservices-based deployments.
- Familiarity with SRE practices – incident response, error budgets, chaos testing.
- Knowledge of scripting and programming languages (Python, Go, Bash) for automation and tooling
Additional Information
Secondary Location: Noida CampusAt our organization, we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.
