Principal Software Engineer - Devops

FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India), a part of First Citizens BancShares, Inc., a top 20 U.S. financial institution, is a global capability center (GCC) based in Bengaluru. Our India-based teams benefit from the company’s over 125-year legacy of strength and stability. First Citizens India is responsible for delivering value and managing risks for our lines of business. We are particularly proud of our strong, relationship-driven culture and our long-term approach, which are deeply ingrained in our talented workforce. This is evident across all key areas of our operations, including Technology, Enterprise Operations, Finance, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Credit Administration. We are seeking talented individuals to join us in our mission of providing solutions fit for our clients’ greatest ambitions.

Job Description

Principal Software Engineer - DevOps

Value Preposition

Accelerate our delivery pipeline improving system reliability and driving automation across our infrastructure.

You will be empowered to design and scale robust CI/CD pipeline, integrate modern observability tools and champion infrastructure-as-code to support rapid innovation.

Job Details

Position Title: Principal Software Engineer

Career Level: P4

Job Category: Assistant Vice president

Role Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Bangalore

Our team operates at the intersection of development and IT Operations focuses on building scalable secure and high performing infrastructure. We are a collaborative and forward-thinking group that embraces modern DevOps practices such as infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud-native tooling. The team works closely with developers, QA and security engineers to ensure seamless code delivery and system performance from development to production.

Impact

As a DevOps Engineer on our team, your work will directly power the performance, stability, and scalability of everything we build within IT. Your expertise will accelerate release cycles, improve testing environments and empower your teammates with better tools and workflows.

Key Deliverables

• Collaborate with software developers, quality assurance engineers and operations teams to guarantee smooth deployment, automation, and management of software infrastructure.
• Design build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for software applications and environments.
• Setup and manage observability tools and implement alerting and logging for early issue detection.
• and ensuring the reliability and performance of applications and services in preproduction and production.
• Troubleshoot software infrastructure issues and collaborate with the team to resolve them.
• Designing and implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate the setup, scaling, and management of IT resources.
• Identify code vulnerability solution and fix.
• Identify repetitive tasks and automate them to improve efficiency.
  
  

Functional Skills

Skills and Qualification (Functional and Technical Skills)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills to explain technical concepts to non-technical teams
• Ability to quickly analyze and troubleshoot complex system issues.
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast pace dynamic environment.
• Collaborative mindset – DevOps is all about enabling others.
• Proactively stays current with tools, trends and best practices.
• Takes initiative to identify and solve issues before they escalate.
  
  

Technical Skills

• Degree in Engineering, MCA or equivalent. 12-14 years of experience in development teams with a minimum of 10 in Devops or similar role.
• Strong understanding of DevOps methodologies, tools, and practices, with a focus on automation and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• Experienced in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment using DevSecOps tools and platforms, such as Jenkins/GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, and security scanning tools.
• Experienced in multiple programming and scripting languages and capable of writing secure code.
• Proficiency with Ansible and terraform.
• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s), Helm or OpenShift for orchestration and scaling.
• Awareness of monitoring solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and log management tools like Splunk.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems
• Familiarity with security scanning and vulnerability management
• Experience collaborating with teams using tools like Jira/Confluence
  
  

Leadership Qualities

Technical Leadership: Mentoring teams, driving best practices.

Inspiration: Motivates and encourages the team to achieve their best.

Relationships & Collaboration

You will be part of a cross geographical team that delivers banking solutions in technology. You will report into the Director responsible for technical delivery from India. You would be working closely with the vertical owner for Devops in the US. You will lead a technical team of devops engineers and responsible for the sprint deliverables for the India team.

Accessibility Needs

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible hiring process. If you require accommodations at any stage (e.g. application, interviews, onboarding) please let us know, and we will work with you to ensure a seamless experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity

FC Global Services India LLP (First Citizens India) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible environment and prohibit all forms of discrimination on the basis of gender, religion, caste, disability, sexual orientation, economic status or any other characteristics protected by the law. We strive to foster a safe and respectful environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Our EEO policy ensures fairness throughout the employee life cycle.