Title: DevOps - Technical Lead
About Us:
Paytm is Indias leading digital payments and financial services company which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers while empowering them to pay via Paytm Payment Instruments (PPI) like Paytm Wallet Paytm UPI Paytm Payments Bank Netbanking Paytm FASTag and Paytm Postpaid - Buy Now Pay Later. To merchants Paytm offers acquiring devices like Sound box EDC QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks financial instruments. To further enhance merchants business Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans personal loans and BNPL sourced by its financial partners.
About the team:Paytm Travel has revolutionized the travel industry - intending to empower millions of travelers who choose us as their preferred travel partner. We are no. 2 in the travel segment in India within a span of a few years which proves our capability and potential to become no. 1 shortly. Being one of the largest travel platforms in the country we aim to not only ensure seamless instant booking but also a delightful journey. We strive to enrich the customer experience by making every transaction transparent honest and stay ahead of the curve we are working aggressively towards our ambition to make travel affordable for all. With this customer centricity at our core we strive to make Paytm Travel synonymous with trustworthy travel partners.
Devops Lead Bengaluru :
Why Paytm
As part of the DevOps team at Paytm you will:
Architect and operate a resilient secure and highly scalable cloud-native platform
supporting massive traffic.
Drive automation across deployment monitoring incident management and
operational workflows for maximum efficiency and reliability.
Lead initiatives to scale infrastructure for rapidly increasing demand solving
complex problems that come with one of Indias highest traffic platforms.
Develop a strong analytical mindset within the team to enable data-driven decisions
and operational excellence.
Champion a Quality-First culture and ensure best practices across the DevOps
lifecycle.
Collaborate closely with engineering teams to seamlessly bring new features and
services into production.
Job Description:
The DevOps Lead takes ownership of the organizations toughest technical challenges
and drives technical excellence across teams. You will work closely with a senior
engineering manager to execute the organizations vision for a highly reliable secure
and scalable platform.
A DevOps Lead is someone who cares deeply about the technical foundation of
operations ensures that every system runs smoothly and proactively addresses
issues before they impact customers. The ideal candidate has deep expertise across
cloud infrastructure and automation can identify and bridge gaps between
development and operations and consistently drives improvements in stability
performance and efficiency.
Our Tech Stack:
Kubernetes Linux Helm charts Prometheus Grafana Terraform Ansible GitOps
ArgoCD Argo Rollouts Jenkins Java Groovy Golang Python VPC EKS ECR
EC2 Load Balancers S3 Route53 Elasticsearch Akamai Postgres MySQL
Cassandra MongoDB Kafka Aerospike Redis.
Technical Expectations:
57 years of experience in DevOps SRE Platform or Cloud Engineering roles (lead
experience preferred).
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes Helm charts containers and cloud-
native deployments (minimum 3 years).
Deep experience with automation using Terraform Ansible and GitOps tooling.
Strong understanding of systems networks OS internals and troubleshooting at
scale.
Ability to write scripts/tools in Bash Python Groovy or Golang to solve
operational problems and automate workflows.
Hands-on experience with GenAI tools/frameworks leveraged for operational
intelligence such as automated RCA generation anomaly detection pipelines
observability insights LLM-powered runbooks/playbooks or infra-as-code review.
Experience running Prometheus Alertmanager and Thanos at high scale
managing millions of metrics per second.
Exposure to multiple tools from our tech stack is desirable but the ability to learn
quickly adapt and drive improvements is valued most.