Posted 18 May, 2026
Architect II - Cloud Infrastructure Services
VARITE INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
Full Time
Reference: 26-16551-2522-2
Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited
About The Client:
Client is a leading digital transformation solutions provider and IT services company with over 30,000 employees across 30+ countries. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, it helps Fortune 500 and Global 1000 clients with digital, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and engineering services.
About The Job:
Delivery Ownership & Governance
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About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
About The Client:
Client is a leading digital transformation solutions provider and IT services company with over 30,000 employees across 30+ countries. Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, it helps Fortune 500 and Global 1000 clients with digital, cloud, AI, cybersecurity, and engineering services.
About The Job:
- Client FinX is seeking a Senior Practice Lead - Cloud & DevOps to own and govern the delivery of FinX banking and fintech products and platforms by institutionalizing best in class Cloud, DevOps, DevSecOps, and Cloud Security practices.
- This role is accountable for ensuring that all product and platform deliveries meet banking grade expectations for security, reliability, scalability, compliance, operational excellence, and cost efficiency, while accelerating time to market for customers in the US and Europe.
- The Practice Lead will operate at the intersection of delivery management, technology leadership, and engineering governance, working closely with product engineering teams, cloud architects, security teams, SREs, and client stakeholders.
- The individual will define standards, drive consistency across deliveries, manage risks, and ensure cloud platforms are secure, compliant, resilient, and audit ready at all times.
Delivery Ownership & Governance
- Own end to end delivery governance for Cloud & DevOps aspects across all UST FinX products and platforms.
- Ensure consistent adoption of cloud, DevOps, and security best practices across delivery teams.
- Act as the final authority for cloud readiness, release readiness, and operational readiness before production go lives.
- Define and enforce delivery guardrails, engineering KPIs, and quality metrics (DORA, SLOs, security SLAs).
- Establish and mature the Cloud & DevOps practice within UST FinX.
- Define practice strategy, standards, playbooks, reusable assets, and accelerators.
- Lead and mentor Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, SREs, and Platform teams across multiple programs.
- Partner with delivery and product leadership to align cloud capabilities with business outcomes.
- Govern cloud platform architectures on AWS and/or Azure for regulated banking workloads.
- Ensure adoption of standardized landing zones, identity models, network segmentation, and governance policies.
- Oversee Kubernetes/container platforms (EKS/AKS) and cloud native service usage.
- Promote platform engineering and self service enablement for product teams.
- Ensure standardized, secure, and scalable CI/CD pipelines across all FinX products.
- Drive DevOps maturity across teams covering: Automated builds, testing, deployments, and rollbacks
- GitOps based deployment models
- Release governance and environment promotion strategies
- Align DevOps processes with banking change management and audit requirements.
- Own Cloud Security posture for FinX platforms in partnership with Security and Risk teams.
- Ensure DevSecOps practices are embedded into delivery: SAST, DAST, dependency and container scanning
- Secrets management and secure configuration
- Policy as code and compliance automation
- Ensure platforms are audit ready with traceability, logging, and evidence generation.
- Institutionalize SRE practices across platforms: SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets
- Incident management, RCA, postmortems
- Ensure high availability, DR readiness, backup/restore strategies, and resilience testing.
- Drive improvements in MTTR, availability, and platform stability.
- Establish FinOps governance for FinX platforms: Cost visibility, tagging standards, budgets, optimization
- Drive cost efficient cloud usage without compromising security or performance.
- Partner with finance and delivery teams for forecasting and cost accountability.
- Act as the Cloud & DevOps delivery leader in client interactions, reviews, and audits.
- Engage with US and Europe stakeholders to address delivery risks, compliance concerns, and platform scalability.
- Provide leadership during production incidents, audits, and regulatory reviews.
- Experience: 15+ years of relevant experience
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Experience & Leadership
- 15+ years of experience in IT, with strong focus on Cloud, DevOps, and Platform delivery.
- Proven experience leading large scale delivery programs in banking, financial services, or fintech environments.
- Strong people leadership experience managing multi disciplinary teams.
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Cloud Platforms
- Deep expertise in AWS and/or Azure: Secure landing zones, IAM, networking, governance
- HA/DR and multi region architectures
- Experience delivering regulated workloads on cloud platforms.
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DevOps & Platform Engineering
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab).
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and native cloud IaC tools.
- Kubernetes and container platform governance (EKS/AKS).
- GitOps, release orchestration, and environment standardization.
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Cloud Security & DevSecOps
- Strong understanding of cloud security controls: IAM, encryption, secrets management, WAF, network security
- Hands on experience embedding security into pipelines and delivery workflows.
- Familiarity with audit, compliance, and regulatory delivery expectations in BFSI.
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Observability & Reliability
- Experience implementing observability and monitoring standards: Metrics, logs, traces, ing
- Strong understanding of incident management, DR, and operational readiness.
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Banking / FinTech Domain
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Experience delivering banking or fintech platforms with high expectations for:
- Security, compliance, uptime, and scalability
- Experience working with global clients, especially US and Europe regions.
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Experience delivering banking or fintech platforms with high expectations for:
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Communication & Governance
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to influence senior leadership, architects, and delivery teams.
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Advanced Cloud & Architecture
- Multi cloud or hybrid cloud delivery experience.
- Serverless and managed service modernization.
- Event driven architectures and streaming platforms.
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Security & Compliance
- Exposure to security and compliance frameworks: ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, GDPR, NIST concepts
- Software supply chain security practices (SBOM, artifact signing).
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FinOps & Business Alignment
- Strong FinOps experience including forecasting and chargeback models.
- Experience aligning cloud spend with product P&L or unit economics.
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Platform & Developer Experience
- Internal developer platforms and self service portals (e.g., Backstage).
- Focus on developer productivity and experience improvements.
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Pre Sales & Strategy
- Experience contributing to solutioning, estimations, and RFPs.
- Ability to translate delivery capabilities into client facing value propositions.
Unlock Rewards: Refer Candidates and Earn.
If you're not available or interested in this opportunity, please pass this along to anyone in your network who might be a good fit and interested in our open positions. VARITE offers a Candidate Referral program, where you'll receive a one-time referral bonus based on the following scale if the preferred candidate completes a three-month assignment with VARITE.
Experience Level Bonus Referral:
| 0-2 years | INR 5,000 |
| 2-6 years | INR 7,500 |
| 6+ years | INR 10,000 |
About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
