Virtusa - Principal DevOps & API Engineer

Description :

The Principal DevOps & API Engineer is responsible for the architecture, design, delivery, and governance of enterprise-grade DevOps and API platforms within a regulated financial services environment.

This role combines deep hands-on technical leadership with strategic ownership of DevOps pipelines, cloud-native platforms, and API ecosystems, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

The role collaborates closely with engineering teams, product owners, security, architecture, and governance stakeholders to drive platform excellence, developer experience, and continuous improvement aligned with FAB and CB UAE regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities :

DevOps & API Engineering :

- Design and implement enterprise API services, shared frameworks, and reusable components supporting internal and external consumers.

- Develop and deploy AWS Lambda functions supporting DevOps workflows and API platform capabilities.

- Build and maintain shared libraries, SDKs, frameworks, and dependencies for DevOps and API platforms.

- Ensure high unit test coverage, code quality, security, and vulnerability-free implementations.

- Maintain source code and artifacts in Git, Nexus, and enterprise repositories.

- Deploy and manage platform workloads on AWS EKS and Kubernetes-based environments.

- Drive API lifecycle management, including versioning, backward compatibility, deprecation, and retirement strategies.

API Platform, Integration & Governance :

- Oversee API gateway integration, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, and traffic management.

- Ensure APIs meet performance, scalability, and resilience requirements.

- Maintain API specifications and documentation using Swagger / OpenAPI, Postman, and internal platforms.

- Enable API discoverability and reuse through catalogues and developer portals.

- Collaborate with security teams to implement API security controls, including OAuth2, JWT, encryption, and secrets management.

Monitoring, Observability & Operations :

- Define and enforce operational excellence practices, including :

1. Incident management

2. Root cause analysis (RCA)

3. Continuous improvement and reliability engineering

- Ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and operational readiness across platforms.

DevOps Strategy, Architecture & Governance :

- Establish and enforce architecture, development, and operational standards.

- Act as a key technical decision-maker in strategic and architectural forums.

- Drive the long-term vision and roadmap for DevOps and API platform capabilities.

- Lead design and architecture reviews across cross-functional teams.

- Champion automation-first, cloud-native, and platform engineering practices.

Regulatory & Enterprise Alignment :

- Implement and enforce standards compliant with CB UAE regulatory guidelines.

- Follow the FAB DevOps Governance Strategy, including contribution to governance playbooks and stakeholder engagement.

- Ensure enterprise-level compliance covers
ons

- Identity and access managements

- Entitlement models

- Auditability and traceability

- Secure configurations and data protection

Leadership & Mentorship :

- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a culture of engineering excellence,ownership, and accountability.

- Lead by example through hands-on contribution, design authority, and architectural guidance.

- Influence stakeholders across engineering, security, operations, and business domains.

Research & Innovation :

- Lead adoption of new tools and methodologies to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.

- Drive innovation while balancing risk, compliance, and enterprise constraints.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES :

Principal Engineer as part of the Core Delivery team aligned to a service. Through experience, enhances skills across multiple specialisations.

JOB CONTEXT :

- Owns delivery of assigned DevOps and API initiatives end to end.

- Ensures thorough unit testing and high-quality deliverables.

- Delivers outcomes within agreed timelines and performance benchmarks.

- Communicates effectively with stakeholders and delivery teams.

- Seeks feedback and drives continuous improvement.

- Adapts to changing priorities and complex delivery challenges.

- Works across multiple Service Delivery Teams.

HEALTH & SAFETY :

- Adheres to all FAB Health & Safety policies and procedures.

FRAMEWORKS, BOUNDARIES & DECISION AUTHORITY :

- Authorized to take decisions as per the approved authorization matrix.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE :

Minimum Qualifications :

- Masters degree is an advantage.

Minimum Experience :

- End-to-end SDLC ownership with DevOps and CI/CD expertise.

- Experience in Open Banking or regulated financial services.

- Deep hands-on expertise in AWS (Lambda, EKS, cloud-native services).

- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.

- Extensive CI/CD experience using GitLab, Nexus, and enterprise toolchains.

- Proven experience designing and operating DevOps and API platforms at scale.

DevOps, Automation & Platform Engineering :

- Strong experience with infrastructure automation and pipelines.

- Hands-on experience implementing DevSecOps and shift-left security.

- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across large systems.

- Experience remediating security vulnerabilities across apps and pipelines.

- Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages.

- Nice-to-have : Node.js for automation or platform tooling.

Monitoring, Reliability & Performance Engineering :

- Ability to analyse metrics, identify bottlenecks, and optimize systems.

- Experience improving alerting, performance profiling, and operational readiness.

Governance, Security & Compliance :

- Deep understanding of IAM, secrets management, encryption, and secure

configurations.

- Experience implementing governance aligned with CB UAE and FAB standards.

Leadership, Architecture & Strategy :

- Strong analytical skills with end-to-end system thinking.

- Experience evaluating and adopting new technologies responsibly.

- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

- Proficiency with architecture tools such as Visio, Draw.io, or equivalent.

Enterprise & Scale Experience :

- Strong focus on standardization, reuse, and developer experience.

- Ability to operate as a strategic technical leader, beyond day-to-day delivery.

ANNEXURE : TECHNICAL & BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES :

- Decision Quality

- Manages Ambiguity

- Fosters Innovation

- Collaborates

- Courageous

- Instils Trust

- Ownership & Accountability