DevOps Engineer - III

About Navi

At Navi, our mission is to simplify finance for a billion people, through technology-first products built at scale.

Founded in 2018 by Sachin Bansal and Ankit Agarwal, Navi has grown rapidly across Loans, UPI, Insurance, Mutual Funds and Digital Gold – building products designed around speed, simplicity and customer experience.

Today, millions of customers use Navi for experiences like instant personal loans, fully digital home loan sanctions within minutes, low-cost mutual funds, instant credit lines in minutes and one of India’s fastest-growing UPI platforms.

What makes Navi different is the way we build. We move fast, solve real customer problems and give people the ownership to create meaningful impact early in their journey.

Why Explore a Career at Navi?

Where Ownership Creates Real Impact

At Navi, ownership starts early. People here are trusted to solve problems, make decisions and drive outcomes that directly shape the products and experiences used by millions of customers every day.

Where Careers Accelerate

Growth at Navi is driven by impact, not tenure. We strongly believe in promoting from within and creating opportunities for people to take on larger responsibilities as they grow. If you consistently raise the bar, you’ll find the space to grow quickly here.

Where Great Talent Builds Together

We take pride in building high talent-density teams where ambitious people learn from one another every day. Working on high-scale business and technology problems creates steep learning curves, fast execution cycles and opportunities to make visible impact throughout your journey.

About the Engineering Team

Navi’s Engineering team builds the backbone of our financial products. We operate as

cross-functional teams that work closely with Product, Data, and Business functions to

deliver reliable, high-performance systems at scale. Our engineers focus on solving

real-world challenges through scalable architecture, automation, and long-term

thinking, along with providing quality feedback - ensuring every Navi product is built to

serve millions efficiently and seamlessly.

About the Team

The DevOps and Infrastructure team at Navi designs, operates, and scales a hybrid

cloud architecture spanning AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and specialized

self-hosted environments.

As Navi partners closely with banks and regulated financial institutions, our

infrastructure must be resilient, compliant, and secure by design. The team is

responsible for ensuring that all systems run seamlessly while safeguarding sensitive

customer data (including PII) and preventing any disruptions in financial transactions.

We are passionate about building next-generation infrastructure that balances security,

performance, and developer velocity.

This includes:

• Cloud & Hybrid Infrastructure: Scaling services across AWS, OCI, and on-prem components.
• Platform Engineering: Creating internal platforms and tooling that empower developers to ship quickly and safely.
• Observability & Reliability: Implementing world-class monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices.
• Security & Compliance: Embedding guardrails and automation to meet stringent financial-grade security requirements.
• Cost Optimization: Ensuring our infra is not just reliable, but also cost-efficient at scale.

What We Expect From You

• Develop deep understanding of the end-to-end configurations, dependencies, customer requirements, and overall characteristics of the production services as the accountable owner for overall service operations
• Implementing best practices, challenging the status quo, and tab on industry and technical trends, changes, and developments to ensure the team is always striving for best-in-class work
• Lead incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to resolve issues quickly and minimize downtime. Implement effective incident management processes and post-incident reviews
• Participate in on-call rotation responsibilities, ensuring timely identification and resolution of infrastructure issues
• Possess expertise in designing and implementing capacity plans, accurately estimating costs and efforts for infrastructure needs.
• Systems and Infrastructure maintenance and ownership for production environments, with a continued focus on improving efficiencies, availability, and supportability through automation and well defined runbooks
• Provide mentorship and guidance to a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment. Mentor team members in best practices, technologies, and methodologies.
• Design for Reliability - Architect & implement solutions that keeps Navi’s
• Infrastructure running with Always On availability and ensures high uptime SLA for the Infrastructure
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables related to your technical expertise and assigned domains
• Collaborate with Product & Information Security teams to ensure the integrity and security of Infrastructure and applications. Implement security best practices andcompliance standards

Must Haves

• 5-7 years of experience as Devops / SRE / Platform Engineer
• Strong expertise in automating Infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Helm Charts etc
• Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP, etc
• Expertise in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS and Oracle)
• Expertise in managing production grade Kubernetes clusters
• Experience in scripting using programming languages like Bash, Python, etc.
• Expertise in skill sets for centralized logging systems, metrics, and tooling frameworks such as ELK, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana etc.
• Experience in Managing and building High scale API Gateway, Service Mesh, etc
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language
• Deep knowledge & experience with Unix / Linux operating systems internals (Eg. filesystems, user management, etc)
• A working knowledge and deep understanding of cloud security concepts
• Proven track record of driving results and delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical project stakeholders, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.

The Navi OS

The Navi OS is our Operating System for how we work every day. Success at Navi is defined by living these core values.

• Start with the Customer
• Master the Details
• Act with Urgency
• Own the Outcome
• Build for a Decade - Not a Day
• Win as One

We hire talented individuals who already show these strengths, because those who share these values thrive at Navi and grow with the organisation.

To read more about the Navi OS, visit navi.com/our-values

Life at Navi

Life at Navi is fast-paced, ambitious and deeply collaborative. Beyond work, teams come together through sports, celebrations, offsites, music jams, team outings and many more shared experiences that make the journey exciting and memorable.

We believe people do their best work when they feel supported, through flexible leave policies, strong health and wellness benefits, free financial, legal and medical consultations, ESOPs and a workplace designed for both productivity and well-being.

Whether it’s the sports turf, gym, focus zone or nap rooms, the campus is built to make everyday work more enjoyable.

If you’d like to know more about life at Navi, our culture and employee benefits, head to our careers page: navi.com/careers/life-at-navi

If solving meaningful problems, building at scale and growing alongside ambitious teams excites you,

Navi could be the place for you.