WeRize - Lead DevOps Engineer

About WeRize Founded in 2019 by Vishal Chopra and Himanshu Gupta, WeRize is building Indias largest full stack fintech platform for 500 million underserved middle-class customers who live in 5000+ small towns of India. WeRize (Wortgage technologies pvt ltd) also owns RBI registered NBFC subsidiary (Wortgage Finance pvt ltd). This customer segment is not served by private sector banks, Insurers and Mutual Fund companies due to their low ticket-size and lifetime value and is dependent on PSU/Govt. banks. PSU/Government banks rarely provide financial products beyond basic savings accounts and these customers lack access to unsecured loans, MSME loans, credit cards, affordable housing loans, loan against property, health/life insurance and investment products. WeRize manufactures innovative unsecured consumer credit, mortgages, loan against property, MSME loans, savings and insurance products designed for this customer base keeping in mind their needs, requirements and purchasing power, with a view to add a layer of financial security to their lives and enable access to credit. While customers in these geographies use smartphones, they need proper guidance and support when purchasing the right financial products for themselves. So, a pure digital model doesnt work for this segment. WeRize has innovated on this front through its Finance ki online dukaan (Social Shopify of Finance), a first of its kind social distribution tech platform in the financial services space that educates and enables local financially literate freelancers across these small towns to source business through online and offline channels, recommend the right financial product(s) to customers as well as provide after sales support. These freelancers, who are located in more than 5000+ towns and cities, earn as much as INR 30,000 a month from WeRize in commissions. Our social distribution platform supported by financially literate freelancers means exceptionally low cost of customer acquisition (CAC) and operations costs compared to both fully digital and on-the-ground financial services providers. Digital conversions among this target group are way lower when compared to upper income customers in metros and hence pure digital CAC doesnt work for this segment. While companies like LIC and Fino Bank also rely on freelancer distribution, they deploy local on-field teams/branches to manage freelancers in every city. That results in very high CAC and operations costs for such companies. WeRize on the other hand, has been able to acquire, train and manage thousands of freelancers in 5000+ cities only through its tech platform and without any feet-on-street team of its own. This results in highly profitable business model for Werize.

Role Description We are looking for a skilled and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic fintech team. You will play a key role in optimizing our infrastructure, ensuring system reliability, and enabling continuous integration and delivery. This is a hands-on role requiring deep technical expertise, a problem-solving mindset, and strong collaboration skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and proactively troubleshoot system performance issues.
• Ensure the security, scalability, and compliance of our cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP).
• Collaborate with software development teams to enhance application performance and reliability.
• Design and manage robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Git.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to identify and implement cost-optimization strategies.
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation (Infrastructure as Code).
• Implement backup, disaster recovery, and monitoring solutions.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest cloud services and recommend improvements.

Attributes We Are Looking For

• 4 to 7 years of experience in DevOps, build-and-release, or service engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, ELB, Route53, SNS, CloudWatch) and/or GCP.
• Excellent scripting skills in Shell, Python, or Perl.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and Nginx.
• Experience with containers (Docker) and container registries.
• Familiarity with infrastructure management, performance monitoring tools, and security best practices.
• Bonus : Experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms. (ref:hirist.tech)