Software Engineer

Role/Job Title: Software Engineer

Business: Information Technology

Function/ Department: Information Technology

Place of work: 'Bangalore

Roles & Responsibilities:
'The role holder will be required to -

Collaborate with business analysts in clearing points of confusion, project scope, identifying short falls of business requirements / user stories
Develop action plans to address areas needing improvement
Provide support to business units and ensure that stakeholders are well informed of the progress as well as of the risks.
Champion the CI / CD methodology and tooling, which will include the containerized and non-containerized applications, using Jenkins, ArgoCD, goCD etc.
Continuously be on the look out for emerging technologies, trends, threats and key challenges in underlying technologies, and plan and provide inputs on impact on the Bank.
Collaborate with other SRE- s, L2/Support and Developers in the deployment and scaling of new product features to facilitate rapid iteration and massive growth.
Develop tools to improve our ability to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor production applications in a large-scale Linux environment.
Proven experience in Linux systems administration.
Knowledge in Infrastructure as Code: Ansible/Chef/Salt, Terraform, etc.
Container Orchestration: Kubernetes/Mesos/Docker Swarm.
Secondary Responsibilities:
'-Recommend improvements to processes and policies across the Banking business to drive operational efficiencies and high quality customer service

Leverage in-house synergies through collaboration with internal stakeholders
Managerial & Leadership Responsibilities:
'- Monitor key parameters on productivity, hiring quality and attrition rates and make necessary improvements

Champion IDFC First's customer first culture by driving the team to take up high degree servicing norms to ensure absolute customer delight
Attract and retain best-in-class talent for key roles in their reporting structure
Key Success Metrics:
'- Time to market

Failure recovery time
Reduced lead time to change
Lowering change failure rates