Hiring Manager :: Yagyansh K
Team :: Devops
About Navi
Navi is one of the fastest-growing financial services companies in India providing Personal & Home Loans, UPI, Insurance, Mutual Funds, and Gold. Navi's mission is to deliver digital-first financial products that are simple, accessible, and affordable. Drawing on our in-house AI/ML capabilities, technology, and product expertise, Navi is dedicated to building delightful customer experiences.
Founders: Sachin Bansal & Ankit Agarwal
Know what makes you a “Navi_ite” :
1.Perseverance, Passion and Commitment
• Passionate about Navi’s mission and vision
• Demonstrates dedication, perseverance and high ownership
• Goes above and beyond by taking on additional responsibilities
2.Obsession with high quality results
• Consistently creates value for the customers and stakeholders through high quality outcomes
• Ensuring excellence in all aspects of work
• Efficiently manages time, prioritizes tasks, and achieves higher standards
3.Resilience and Adaptability
• Adapts quickly to new roles, responsibilities, and changing circumstances, showing resilience and agility
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Develop deep understanding of the end-to-end configurations, dependencies, customer requirements, and overall characteristics of the production services as the accountable owner for overall service operations
- Implementing best practices, challenging the status quo, and tab on industry and technical trends,
changes, and developments to ensure the team is always striving for best-in-class work - Lead incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to resolve issues quickly and minimize downtime. Implement effective incident management processes and post-incident reviews
- Participate in on-call rotation responsibilities, ensuring timely identification and resolution of infrastructure issues
- Possess expertise in designing and implementing capacity plans, accurately estimating costs and efforts for infrastructure needs.
- Systems and Infrastructure maintenance and ownership for production environments, with a continued focus on improving efficiencies, availability, and supportability through automation and well defined runbooks
- Provide mentorship and guidance to a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment. Mentor team members in best practices, technologies, and methodologies.
- Design for Reliability - Architect & implement solutions that keeps Navi’s Infrastructure running with Always On availability and ensures high uptime SLA for the Infrastructure
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables related to your technical expertise and assigned domains
- Collaborate with Product & Information Security teams to ensure the integrity and security of Infrastructure and applications. Implement security best practices and compliance standards
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- 5-7 years of experience as Devops / SRE / Platform Engineer
- Strong expertise in automating Infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Helm Charts etc
- Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP, etc
- Expertise in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS and Oracle)
- Expertise in managing production grade Kubernetes clusters
- Experience in scripting using programming languages like Bash, Python, etc.
- Expertise in skill sets for centralized logging systems, metrics, and tooling frameworks such as ELK, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana etc.
- Experience in Managing and building High scale API Gateway, Service Mesh, etc
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
- Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language
- Deep knowledge & experience with Unix / Linux operating systems internals (Eg. filesystems, user management, etc)
- A working knowledge and deep understanding of cloud security concepts
- Proven track record of driving results and delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical project stakeholders, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
Good to Have:
- Experience in developing in-house tools to improve our ability to monitor & maintain multi-cloud Infrastructure
- Experience in self-managed Data Centre based Infrastructure
- Strong cloud foundation with certifications in AWS and container orchestration (CKA/CKAD) is a plus