Lead DevOps Engineer (AI- Focused)

Synechron is a leading digital transformation consulting firm dedicated to delivering innovative technology solutions within banking, financial services, and insurance. We thrive on engineering excellence, collaboration, and a passion for cutting-edge technologies.

Are you passionate about making developers' lives easier, faster, and more fulfilling ? We're on a mission to supercharge our engineering culture by building a world-class DevOps organization that's the envy of the industry.

This is a great opportunity to join a growing company in an innovative and dynamic industry !

We are looking for a strong, hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to build and maintain a brand-new cloud-based Index platform. You will lead a team of Senior and Junior DevOps Engineers to help us build and manage secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud environments, drive observability and resilience through chaos and disaster recovery testing, and implement FinOps strategies to optimize cloud spending. Your expertise will be crucial in ensuring operational excellence and business continuity in a dynamic cloud-native environment. You will also use your deep experience of DevOps CI/CD practices to design, implement and optimize a best-in-class AWS micro services architecture.

We are looking for someone with a strong background in DevOps practices and tools, with a focus on GitLab, Terraform, AWS Cloud, Kubernetes/EKS, and Ansible, along with mandatory experience supporting AI/ML or GenAI platforms in production environments.

· Lead and mentor a high-performing, geographically diverse team of DevOps engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement.

· Build and oversee the implementation of secure, resilient, and cost-optimized AWS cloud infrastructure using best-in-class DevOps practices and technologies.

· Collaborate with software developers across multiple geographies and cross-functional teams to understand project objectives, gather requirements, and deliver systems and software within agreed upon timelines.

Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and ML engineers across multiple geographies to understand project objectives and deliver AI-enabled systems and cloud platforms within agreed timelines

· Oversee the implementation and management of CI/CD pipelines to streamline software development and deployment processes for Java and Python based Microservices-style architectures.

· Drive infrastructure-as-code maturity through Terraform, enforcing modular, reusable, and version-controlled infrastructure patterns.

· Oversee Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure at scale, ensuring robust workload orchestration, service discovery, and container lifecycle management.

· Lead cloud security posture management by integrating security controls, automated scanning, and continuous compliance into the DevOps lifecycle.

· Drive observability efforts using tools like Datadog (or equivalent) to monitor infrastructure and application performance.

· Introduce and lead chaos engineering practices to proactively identify potential points of failure and improve system resilience.

· Oversee and continuously optimize cloud cost management strategies in line with Cloud FinOps principles.

· Design, lead, and continuously improve disaster recovery strategies and testing frameworks to support high availability and business continuity.

· Collaborate with executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to align infrastructure strategy with long-term business objectives.

· Ensure code is up-to-date, maintainable, scalable, and secure.

· Mentor senior DevOps engineers and promote a culture of continuous improvement and cloud operational excellence.

· Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies in DevOps and Cloud.

· Stay updated on cloud technologies, security vulnerabilities, and emerging FinOps methodologies.

· This is not just a People Management role, and requires you to be completely hands-on.