DevOps Engineer

About SG Analytics (A Straive company):

SG Analytics (SGA), a Straive company, is a leading global data and AI consulting firm delivering solutions across AI, Data, Technology, and Research. With deep expertise in BFSI, Capital Markets, TMT (Technology, Media & Telecom), and other emerging industries, SGA empowers clients with Ins(AI)ghts for Business Success through data-driven transformation.

A Great Place to Work certified company, SGA has a team of over 1,600 professionals across the U.S.A, U.K, Switzerland, Poland, and India. Recognized by Gartner, Everest Group, ISG, and featured in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India 2024 and Financial Times & Statista APAC 2025 High Growth Companies, SGA delivers lasting impact at the intersection of data and innovation.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our Systems and Automation team in the Global Products and Solutions organization. This role involves automating software deployment processes, managing cloud environments, ensuring system reliability, and fostering collaboration across development, QA, and IT operations teams.

Key responsibilities

• Include building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, leveraging Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices, monitoring system performance, managing containerisation platforms (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and supporting cloud-based architectures (e.g. Azure).
• The ideal candidate has a strong technical background in both software development and systems administration, with a focus on continuous integration, delivery, and operational excellence.
• This position requires a proactive mindset, problem-solving skills, and a commitment to improving system efficiency, security, and uptime within a dynamic and regulated environment such as financial services.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Heavy CI/CD experience (Jenkins, GitLab, maven)
• Scripting skills (bash)
• Ability to work on Linux infrastructure
• Kubernetes deployments and experience with distributed architectures
• Experience with Azure Application Platform, especially AKS
• Development background (any of: java, dotnet, scala, python, javascript)
• Deep architectural experience, and ability to elicit non-functional requirements and document system designs
• Good understanding of communication stacks (any of: RabbitMq, Kafka, GRPC, web sockets)
• Observability tools (Grafana, ElasticSearch, fluent-bit, OpenTelemetry)
• Understanding of security topics such as Oauth 2.0, TLS, and vulnerability scanning
• Team-player
• Ability to work with team members in different time zone
• Pro-active approach to solving problems

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and proficiency in designing architecture and writing code for microservices and distributed applications
• Operators, helm chart creation and maintenance

Responsibilities:

• Be a driver for Standardization and Automation
• Drive the onboarding of our applications to the Cloud Native Stack
• Drive the onboarding of our teams to common platforms (Observability Frameworks, )
• Support to foster the engineering culture within your team
• Bring proven expertise in engineering practices and processes and have experience operating and supporting critical business systems on a global scale.
• Your experience with microservices, cloud-native applications and distributed systems will help us propel our business growth.
• As part of a highly collaborative team, contribute to the future Software Solutions team
• Support maintaining common platforms within Markets

This role is based at client location - Mumbai, only considering candidates who are based out of Mumbai.