Lead Platform & Release Engineer (Contract)

Contract Role
Banking/ Fintech experience

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines to support software development, testing, deployment, and release activities.
• Manage application environments across Development, SIT, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production, ensuring consistency, stability, and operational readiness.
• Establish and enforce technical quality standards throughout project delivery by adopting Software Development Methodology (SDM) guidelines, Agile practices, DevOps principles, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and automated testing practices.
• Plan, coordinate, and execute application releases, deployment activities, production cutovers, and rollback procedures with minimal operational risk.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Infrastructure Teams, and Security Teams to ensure solutions comply with enterprise architecture standards, security policies, risk controls, and technology governance requirements.
• Develop and maintain platform engineering standards, deployment patterns, release procedures, operational runbooks, and environment management documentation.
• Ensure system implementations conform to approved solution architectures, technology roadmaps, scalability requirements, and operational support models.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual operational effort, improve deployment reliability, and increase engineering productivity.
• Monitor and continuously improve release performance, deployment success rates, platform stability,and operational metrics.
• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, project teams, vendors, and support teams regarding platform capabilities, release schedules, deployment issues, and production support activities.
• Support incident resolution, root cause analysis, problem management, and implementation of preventive measures to improve platform reliability and operational resilience.
• Work closely with application development teams to enable seamless deployment and operation of Python-based backend applications and associated frontend components.
• Analyse impacts of infrastructure and deployment changes on existing systems, evaluate technical risks, and implement optimal solutions that maintain system integrity and service availability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Releace management, DevOps, Platform Engineering
• Backend development: Python/Django/REST API Frameworks.
• OS skills: Linux/Unix, Shell Scripting, SSH, Application Monitoring and Analysis and Support.
• Infra skills: MS-SQL / Oracle (Design, Query using SQL, Optimize Queries), Apache WebServer, Jenkins, Git, and Infra Setup for applications.

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