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