Lead Devops Engineer

Lead Devops Engineer

Location: Pune, India

Role mix: 60% hands-on engineering | 40% team leadership

• Are you curious, excited by experimentation and always looking to innovate?
• Do you want to work in embedded payments where you can keep learning and developing whilst getting hands-on experience?
• Do you want to have the opportunity to play an important role in a rapidly growing and exciting Fintech business?

If so, we would love to connect and collaborate!  

Who We Are  

Modulr is the payments automation platform that streamlines money movement with accuracy, control and reliability — built to scale. We process more than 200m transactions and over £180bn in payment value on an annualised basis, and we’re trusted by over 6,000 businesses from fast-growing SMEs to global enterprises.  

We automate how money moves into and out of a business — payroll, supplier payments, spend management and payment collection — through a single platform, connected to the accounting and payroll systems finance teams already use and underpinned by principal memberships of Visa and Mastercard and direct access to central bank infrastructure.  

As a regulated payments provider with over a decade of experience, we’re the platform finance teams trust to run mission-critical operations. Modulr is backed by PayPal, FIS, General Atlantic, Blenheim Chalcot, Frog Capital and Highland Europe, with over 400 employees across London, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Mumbai and Pune.  

About the Role 

We are seeking a hands-on Lead DevOps Engineer to lead the design, delivery, and operation of secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure.

This role combines approximately 60% individual contribution with 40% team leadership and management. You will remain actively involved in architecture, automation, implementation, troubleshooting, and operational support while mentoring engineers, setting technical standards, and coordinating the team's delivery.

The ideal candidate has deep, practical expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and working knowledge of other major cloud platforms, particularly Microsoft Azure and GCP

Key Responsibilities

Hands-on Engineering - 60%

• Design and implement secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available cloud and hybrid environments, primarily on AWS.
• Own and evolve AWS architecture across networking, compute, storage, identity, security, containers, and managed services.
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, Argo CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Implement GitOps practices and automate application deployment, configuration, testing, and release processes.
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation, following reusable and version-controlled Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Design, deploy, and operate containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS.
• Improve Kubernetes resilience through effective workload configuration, autoscaling, resource management, health checks, ingress, secrets management, and disaster-recovery practices.
• Develop automation and operational tooling using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Implement comprehensive observability using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, centralised logging, distributed tracing, alerting, and service-level indicators.
• Embed security throughout the software delivery lifecycle, including identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, encryption, and supply-chain security.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, performance, and production reliability issues.
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