Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Bottomline Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Lead DevOps Engineer with 10-15 years of hands-on expertise in designing, implementing, and managing cutting-edge DevOps solutions. The ideal candidate will have deep experience with CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native technologies, infrastructure automation, GitOps practices, production release management, and team leadership. This role requires strong technical acumen, decision-making skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and automated platforms. This position is based at our Bangalore, India office.

Key Responsibilities

• DevOps Strategy & Leadership: Lead, mentor, and guide DevOps engineers and cross-functional teams
• Define and drive DevOps best practices, architecture standards, and automation
• Provide strong decision-making support to stakeholders and technical teams
• Collaborate with development, QA, SRE, and operations teams for seamless integration
• Familiarity with Scrum/Kanban for DevOps
• Ability to translate technical risk into business impact
• CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Architect, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, Bitbucket/Git, and GitOps-based tools
• Ensure robust code scanning, security checks, and quality gates using SonarQube
• Drive continuous improvement in release automation and deployment processes
• Containerization & Orchestration: Build and manage containerized environments using Docker
• Deploy, scale, and manage applications on Kubernetes
• Implement GitOps-driven deployments using ArgoCD
• Infrastructure Automation: Design and automate infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and Terraform
• Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code environments to support scalable, immutable infrastructure
• Improve operational efficiency through end-to-end automation
• Production Management & Reliability: Oversee production deployments, incident response, and root-cause analysis
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of production systems
• Manage environment configurations, release calendars, and change management processes
• Collaboration & Communication: Work closely with engineering leadership to align DevOps roadmap with business objectives
• Drive knowledge sharing, documentation, and process improvements
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Responsibilities: Ensure reliability, scalability, and availability of production systems
• Drive incident and problem management, including incident response, RCA, and post-mortem analysis
• Implement observability best practices - monitoring, logging, and alerting across systems
• Optimize system performance, cost, and operational efficiency

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 10-15 years of hands-on experience in DevOps
• Strong expertise with: Git, Bitbucket, branching strategies, code management
• Jenkins (pipeline development, plugin management)
• SonarQube (code quality, security scanning)
• ArgoCD, GitOps workflows
• Docker, Kubernetes
• Ansible, Puppet for infrastructure automation
• Experience with production release management, CI/CD governance, and operational excellence
• Solid understanding of microservices, networking, security, and cloud-native architectures
• Ability to lead teams, make strategic decisions, and handle high-pressure production environments
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Experience with service mesh, policy-as-code, or advanced automation

About Bottomline Technologies

Bottomline Technologies provides collaborative payment, invoice and document automation solutions to corporations, financial institutions and banks around the world. The company's solutions are used to streamline, automate and manage processes involving payments, invoicing, global cash management, supply chain finance and transactional documents. Organizations trust these solutions to meet their needs for cost reduction, competitive differentiation and optimization of working capital. Serving industries such as financial services, insurance, health care, technology, communications, education, media, manufacturing and government, Bottomline provides products and services to approximately 80 of the Fortune 100 companies and 70 of the FTSE (Financial Times) 100 companies.