About DPDzero
DPDzero (www.dpdzero.com) is an AI Collections Company for financial institutions to run collections on autopilot. Our AI platform combines digital nudges, AI voice agents, and ethical human interventions to improve borrower experience, maximise recovery and reduce cost.
DPDzero is trusted by industry leaders like IndusInd Bank, L&T Finance, Tata Capital, Moneyview, Paysense, and others to manage collections from over 1 crore borrowers in India. DPDzero is backed by GMO VenturePartners, Blume Ventures, India Quotient, and SMBC Asia Rising Fund.
About the role
DPDZero is looking for an experienced and motivated Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and scale the infrastructure powering our digital collections and recovery platform. This is a high-impact role where you'll own cloud infrastructure, CI/CD systems, and deployment strategies that ensure performance, reliability, and security at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable, secure, highly available, and cost‑efficient AWS infrastructure for our platform
- Build and maintain containerized deployments with Docker and orchestration (ECS/EKS/Kubernetes)
- Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable delivery
- Partner with engineers to improve application performance and scalability
- Own availability, disaster recovery, and monitoring/alerting across environments
- Implement security best practices and ensure compliance
- Manage and optimize RDS (PostgreSQL) for integrity and performance
- Provide infrastructure for in‑house hosting used by select lenders and banks, ensuring data privacy and client‑specific deployments
- Mentor engineers, guide tooling choices, and shape DevOps standards and direction
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong expertise with AWS (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM)
- Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar)
- Experience managing and optimize databases, preferably RDS PostgreSQL
- Strong knowledge of networking, cloud security, and observability (CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi)
- Strong problem-solving, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills
- Experience mentoring engineers and fostering strong team culture
Good to haves:
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or other certifications
- Experience with hybrid/on-premises infrastructure
- Familiarity with financial services, banking, or collections domains
- Exposure to multi-tenant architectures and secure data hosting
