Colleague Infrastructure Engineer - AVP

Overview

Colleague Infrastructure Engineer (AVP) role focused on building and maintaining infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, ensuring they are reliable, scalable and secure, and providing L2/L3 support across the infrastructure and application stack.

What you'll do

• Build, deliver and maintain high-quality infrastructure solutions to fulfil business requirements, ensuring measurable reliability, performance, availability and ease of use.
• Identify appropriate technologies and solutions to meet business, optimisation and resourcing requirements.
• Monitor IT infrastructure and system performance to identify, address and resolve potential issues, vulnerabilities or outages, using data to drive down mean time to resolution.
• Develop and implement automated tasks and processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention, using software scripting and coding disciplines.
• Implement secure configurations and measures to protect infrastructure, hardware, software and data against cyber-attacks, vulnerabilities and unauthorised access.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, architects and other engineers to define infrastructure requirements, devise solutions and ensure seamless integration aligned with business objectives.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organisation's technology communities.
• Lead the design, build and support of secure, scalable and high-performing applications, including hands-on infrastructure engineering such as IAC, automation, design governance and troubleshooting.
• Define and implement standards, patterns and development best practices.
• Drive adoption of modern CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security controls and release automation.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owner, Solution Architect, Security, Platform and QA teams to deliver integrated digital solutions.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, risk, governance and regulatory requirements.
• Provide technical leadership across Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Shell script, Datadog, Python, APIs, Docker, containers, ECR, EKS and GitLab.
• Mentor and coach the team through feedback, technical assistance, performance management and development planning.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Support recruitment, onboarding and team growth initiatives.
• Champion DevSecOps practices, observability, reliability engineering and operational excellence.
• Promote knowledge sharing through code reviews, technical discussions, pairing sessions and documentation.
• Balance technical excellence with delivery commitments and business outcomes.
• Manage incidents, problems and changes using ITIL-aligned processes and SLAs (e.g., ServiceNow/Jira).
• Plan and execute OS patching cycles and maintain compliance with security and audit requirements.
• Maintain comprehensive runbooks, knowledge base articles and support documentation.
• Build, maintain and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Nexus) to improve release velocity and quality.
• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Set objectives and coach employees, appraise performance relative to objectives and determine reward outcomes.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies and procedures supporting the control and governance agenda.

What you'll need

• Experience within large-scale, complex or long-lived codebases, with a strong understanding of software architecture, maintainability and modern engineering practices.
• Experience balancing technical quality, operational stability, performance and delivery objectives.
• Comfortable providing technical guidance, code reviews and architectural direction.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills, with excellent verbal and written communication.
• Experience driving a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Programming language: Python or Java.
• Technical skills including Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Shell script, Datadog, Docker, containers, GitLab, Snyk, Qualys, Jira, Confluence, JUnit, Maven, Gradle and NPM.
• AWS cloud computing including EC2, ECR, EKS, S3, CloudFormation and networks.
• Database design and SQL.
• Operating system knowledge of Windows and Linux, with awareness of AIX.
• System design and architecture.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, token exchange, policy systems, delegated administration or identity data modelling.
• Ability to use AI engineering tools to accelerate research, code understanding, prototyping, implementation and documentation while applying sound engineering judgment.
• Experience building production services, distributed systems or shared platform capabilities.
• Experience designing and implementing APIs, RESTful services, integration contracts, and data or domain models.
• Experience turning requirements and ambiguous problems into designs, prototypes and production-ready solutions.
• Experience with authentication, authorisation and identity management.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly, collaborate across teams and time zones, and support other engineers through feedback and knowledge sharing.
• Experience contributing to technical designs and proof of concept work.
• Very good understanding and solid hands-on experience with cloud computing, preferably AWS.
• Strong understanding of containers and hands-on experience with EKS and Docker, with ability to write and deploy Helm charts.
• Hands-on experience with Blue-Green deployments and good understanding of other deployment strategies.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with MCP, agent skills and other agent integration concepts.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Maruthi Onyx - TESCO TSA.