Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.
Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.
Position: Embedded Dev Ops Engineer III
Experience: 6-9 Years
Location: Bangalore (Ecospace)
Job Description:
Role Summary
As an Embedded DevOps Engineer, you will work closely with a product development team and act as the key enabler for getting services production‑ready in GCP. This role is the “engine” that helps product teams onboard to our cloud, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational readiness practices, ensuring services can be deployed, supported, and run reliably in production.
Key Responsibilities
• Work embedded with product teams to enable safe and repeatable deployments from DEV to PROD, including application releases and infrastructure changes.
• Build, improve, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitOps principles and ensure teams follow standard guardrails.
• Develop and maintain application‑specific Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to deploy services (containers/VMs, secrets, load balancers, certs) using reusable platform components.
• Act as first responder for production incidents for the applications you support; drive operational concerns to closure in partnership with SRE/ROC and development teams.
• Improve operational efficiency by automating repetitive tasks and contributing to self‑service frameworks for developers.
• Identify gaps and drive improvements across reliability, scaling, automation, and cost optimisation for your product area.
• Partner with architects/platform teams to review architectures and ensure solutions meet cloud readiness / operational standards.
Education / Background (Expectation)
• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science
• Product company experience preferred; fintech/domain experience preferred
Must‑Have Skills (Non‑Negotiable)
- High ownership, clear communicator, comfortable working embedded with product teams.
- GCP (3+ years) in production environments.
- Strong Kubernetes / GKE experience (running & supporting production workloads).
- Docker + container build/release patterns (hands-on).
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions (build + deploy + troubleshooting).
- Terraform (IaC) for infra delivery.
- NGINX + Helm (Ingress basics, chart usage/standardisation).
- Solid cloud networking (VPCs, firewall rules, ingress/egress).
Good‑to‑Have Skills
• Cloudflare exposure
• Observability tools: Prometheus / Grafana / Dynatrace (or similar)
• ArgoCD / GitOps tooling experience
• Scripting (Python)
• Java / Spring Boot support experience
• Exposure to AI tools / AI agents to improve site reliability
Statement to Third Party Agencies
To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
Skills Required
- Production Kubernetes clusters and container workload optimization
- Cloud networking (VPC, firewalls, ingress/egress, CDN)
- Experience with AWS services
- Hands-on experience with EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, EFS, S3, EBS
- Experience with Terraform and Terragrunt
- Experience in cloud migrations
- BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
- High initiative and clear communication skills
- Ability to set up and troubleshoot environments
- Extensive experience with Prometheus, Dynatrace, or other monitoring/logging tools
- Application and infrastructure automation, orchestration and configuration management expertise
- Experience operating within cloud environments
- Drive DevOps development, automation and deployment practices, policies and standards
- Container build and management
- Cloud migrations experience with Google Cloud (GCP)
- Scripting with Python
- CI/CD with GitHub
- Version control with Git and GitOps practices
Candescent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Candescent and has not been reviewed or approved by Candescent.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Policies include unlimited vacation for full-time exempt staff, tenure-based accrual for non-exempt, plus floating holidays and sick leave. This breadth of time off suggests flexibility across employment classifications.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — A discount program is cited that provides access to deals at over 250 retailers. This perk adds everyday savings beyond core benefits.
Candescent Insights
What We Do
Candescent brings together the transformative technologies that power and connect account opening, digital banking and branch solutions for banks and credit unions of all sizes. And we’re here to help you extend, differentiate and illuminate your digital-first banking experiences. Our industry-leading products and services, cloud architecture and on-demand developer tools give you the power to differentiate and deliver seamless customer journeys.
