DevOps Architect

Job Title: DevOps Architect
Location: Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore
Experience: 10+ Years

Job Type: Permanent

Notice Period: Immediate

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the assessment, design, and implementation of new Thought Machine capabilities aligned to strategic business or technical outcomes and platform objectives.
• Define and maintain the architectural roadmap for the Vault platform, ensuring alignment with business strategy, enterprise standards, and future technology direction.
• Provide technical leadership across engineering, product, and supplier teams to drive platform modernisation, innovation, and operational excellence.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong architecture experience across cloud, infrastructure, platform engineering, and enterprise integration.
• Proven ability to translate business objectives into strategic technology solutions and roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, resilience, and high-availability design patterns.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes platforms, preferably GKE, and service mesh technologies such as Istio.
• Strong working knowledge of Kafka and event-driven architectures, including scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and integration patterns.
• Strong working knowledge of database technologies and highly available data platforms (AlloyDB experience desirable).
• Experience influencing architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.

Good to Have

• Banking or core banking platform experience.
• Experience with Thought Machine Vault.
• Experience working with strategic technology suppliers and influencing product roadmaps.
• Experience defining platform strategies, target-state architectures, and technology adoption roadmaps.
• Knowledge of cloud-native observability, SRE practices, and operational resilience frameworks.