Engineering Manager - DevOps

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 Team

The DevOps and Infrastructure team at Navi designs, operates, and scales a hybrid cloud architecture, spanning AWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and specialised 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 and 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 and Reliability: Implementing world-class monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices.
• Security and Compliance: Embedding guardrails and automation to meet stringent financial-grade security requirements.
• Cost Optimisation: Ensuring our infra is not just reliable, but also cost-efficient at scale.

What You’ll Own

• Lead and mentor a team of ~10 engineers, creating a collaborative, growth-oriented, and high-performance environment.
• Manage all aspects of your team's employee lifecycle- including performance reviews, providing feedback, compensation discussions, and leave approvals.
• Set clear goals and expectations for individuals and the team; continuously track performance and coach for improvement.
• Drive execution of technical deliverables with a focus on quality, timely delivery, and long-term impact.
• Collaborate with business, product, compliance, and HR stakeholders to align engineering initiatives with company goals.
• Provide strong technical direction and hands-on support to ensure delivery of scalable and robust solutions.
• Identify potential project risks, remove blockers, and ensure consistent project momentum.
• Champion production excellence, including observability, monitoring, and debuggability of systems.
• Support hiring efforts through workforce planning, interviewing, and evaluation - with a strong focus on building a diverse and skilled team.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 5-7+ years of experience as DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer.
• 2+ years of experience managing high-performance, sustainable teams.
• Expertise in managing large-scale cloud (preferably AWS and Oracle).
• Expertise in managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong skills in network services and protocols such as DNS, TLS/SSL, etc
• Solid understanding of security- network, service configurations, access control, IAM, etc.
• Deep knowledge and experience with Unix / Linux operating systems internals (Eg, filesystems, user management, etc).
• Expertise in skill sets for centralised logging systems, metrics, and tooling frameworks such as ELK, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana etc.
• Skilled in managing and building high-scale API gateways, service meshes, and related infrastructure components.
• Proficiency in system monitoring, incident management, and driving operational excellence through metrics.
• Solid understanding of SDLC best practices(code reviews, testing, CI/CD, on-call processes).
• Good understanding of infrastructure cost drivers and ways to keep costs low.

Soft Skills & Traits

• Demonstrated ownership and accountability for team outcomes and delivery.
• Strong people management skills and stakeholder communication.
• Ability to Navigate ambiguity, prioritise competing demands, and make trade-offs pragmatically.
• Experience driving end-to-end project delivery- including planning, estimation, risk mitigation, and execution tracking.
• A continuous improvement mindset, always looking to elevate team efficiency and engineering quality.

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.