Engineering Manager - DevOps

About this job

OpenFX is building next-generation cross-border payment infrastructure for institutions, backed by top investors and scaling rapidly. As an Engineering Manager - DevOps based in Bengaluru, you will lead a pod of over 10 engineers responsible for the entire infrastructure that powers trading, banking, payments, and settlement products. The role places you at the intersection of high-scale systems, stringent regulatory compliance, and resilient cloud foundations. On a normal day, you will guide your team on the engineering roadmap, manage cloud budgets, oversee reliable CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate closely with InfoSec and compliance teams. You will balance leadership duties—such as growing and mentoring engineers and hiring top talent—with hands-on technical tasks like reviewing designs, debugging production incidents, and writing Terraform or pipeline code when your team needs extra support.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support a DevOps pod of 10+ engineers, managing roadmaps, engineering standards, and cloud budgets.
• Own system resilience by designing failover mechanisms and validating them through regular drills.
• Build compliance controls directly into the platform for DORA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR.
• Manage the end-to-end delivery path including CI/CD, environments, secrets management, and rollouts.
• Oversee observability, support incident response for tier-1 services, and lead blameless post-mortems.
• Collaborate with InfoSec, Compliance, and Legal to integrate security requirements early into platform design.
• Hire, mentor, and perform talent management to help engineers continuously grow in skill and scope.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering.
• 4+ years of experience managing an infrastructure team at scale.
• Experience operating in a regulated or audited environment.
• Proven experience running production infrastructure for high-traffic, multi-region systems.
• Ability to write Terraform, Helm, and pipeline code and debug production incidents.
• Demonstrated experience in hiring, performance management, and people leadership.
• Experience using AI agents and assistants to automate operational toil.

Good to have

• Experience running infrastructure in fintech, payments, banking, or exchanges.
• Multi-cloud production experience with AWS alongside GCP or Azure.
• Hands-on experience with DORA, PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR audits.
• Experience with chaos engineering or game-day programmes.

Who should apply

This role suits an experienced infrastructure and engineering leader who has successfully scaled teams and managed high-traffic, multi-region production environments. Candidates must have a strong background in regulated industries, compliance frameworks, and hands-on cloud automation. It is ideal for managers who lead by growing the people around them, champion clear asynchronous communication, and remain technically capable of writing code and debugging when needed. The posting does not mention fresher eligibility, requiring substantial prior leadership and infrastructure experience.

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