Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer at Assistant Vice President level to build and maintain secure, scalable, and highly reliable infrastructure platforms that support critical applications and data systems. The role combines hands-on engineering across cloud, automation, and CI/CD with technical leadership, mentoring, and close collaboration with product, architecture, security, and QA teams. You will also provide L2/L3 support, drive reliability and observability practices, and shape standards that improve release velocity and operational excellence.

Our client is a leading global investment bank with a long-standing presence in financial services and a strong focus on technology-driven innovation. They operate at significant scale, serving millions of customers and institutional clients worldwide. The culture emphasises engineering excellence, operational resilience, and a commitment to doing what is right for customers and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-quality, reliable, and scalable infrastructure solutions across hardware, software, networks, and cloud platforms
• Lead infrastructure as code and automation initiatives using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and shell scripting to reduce manual intervention
• Monitor system performance and availability, troubleshoot incidents, and drive down mean time to resolution using observability tools such as Datadog
• Implement secure configurations and controls to protect infrastructure and data against vulnerabilities and cyber threats
• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Nexus) and support blue-green and other deployment strategies
• Operate and support containerised workloads on AWS EKS and Docker, including writing and deploying Helm charts
• Define and enforce engineering standards, patterns, and best practices, and ensure compliance with enterprise security and governance requirements
• Mentor and coach engineers through feedback, code reviews, and development planning while fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborate with product owners, solution architects, security, platform, and QA teams to deliver integrated solutions

Requirements

• 8 to 14.9 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, DevOps, or site reliability engineering
• Strong programming skills in Python or Java, plus shell scripting
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services including EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, CloudFormation, and networking
• Solid experience with containers, Docker, EKS, and Helm
• Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and artifact management tools such as Nexus
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems, with awareness of AIX; experience with OS patching and compliance
• Good understanding of database design and SQL, along with security tooling such as Snyk and Qualys
• Experience with ITIL-aligned incident, problem, and change management processes
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to lead and mentor a team
• Experience with authentication, authorisation, and identity concepts such as OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect is desirable
• Hybrid working arrangement based in Bengaluru
• Must demonstrate the values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship

Skills

Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Shell scripting, Datadog, Python, Docker, AWS, EKS, GitLab CI/CD, Java, ECR, S3, CloudFormation, SQL, Linux, Windows, AIX, Snyk, Qualys, JUnit, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Nexus, Helm, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, REST APIs, ITIL, ServiceNow, Jira, Confluence, Blue-Green deployment