Virtusa - Principal DevOps & SRE Engineer - Wholesale Banking Domain

Description :

Role Title : Principal DevOps & SRE Engineer

Domain : Wholesale Banking (Payments, Cash Management, Channels, APIs)

Role Purpose :

The Principal DevOps & SRE Engineer is responsible for owning end-to-end release and reliability engineering across Non-Production and Production environments within the Wholesale Banking domain. The role focuses on secure, predictable, and resilient releases by combining DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and AI/AIOps practices.

Key Responsibilities :

- Own end-to-end release management across DEV, SIT, UAT, CERT, and PROD environments.

- Define and govern release calendars, versioning strategies, go/no-go criteria, rollback plans, and post-release validation.

- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines with embedded security, quality, and compliance controls.

- Drive infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud and hybrid environments.

- Implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and blameless postmortems.

- Lead observability strategy using ELK stack for centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.

- Apply AI/AIOps capabilities for anomaly detection, alert noise reduction, predictive monitoring, and automated RCA.

- Ensure audit readiness, compliance, and traceability across the SDLC.

- Act as technical authority and mentor for DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers.

Required Skills & Experience :

- 8-12+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Release Engineering roles.

- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).

- Deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.

- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, ARM, or equivalent).

- Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management).

- Hands-on expertise with ELK / Elastic Stack for observability.

- Experience applying AI/AIOps techniques in IT operations.

- Strong scripting skills (Python, Shell).

- Experience in regulated environments, preferably Wholesale or Corporate Banking.

Preferred Skills :

- Experience with Payments, Cash Management, H2H integrations, or API platforms.

- Exposure to DevSecOps tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning.

- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid architectures.

- Familiarity with DORA metrics and engineering productivity measurement.

Key Competencies :

- Strong ownership mindset and accountability for production reliability.

- Excellent stakeholder communication and cross-team orchestration.

- Data-driven decision-making using engineering and reliability metrics.

- Ability to operate under pressure during releases and incidents.

- Mentorship and technical leadership capabilities.