Job Description

Innovation Hub

Jefferies is creating a Technology Innovation Hub in Pune, a greenfield opportunity to build the systems that power global markets. As our first India technology center, this hub brings together hands on builders who engineer the platforms behind Jefferies’ growth across capital markets, investment banking, and institutional securities. We’re scaling toward an elite team of 500 engineers while maintaining the agility, ownership, and meritocratic spirit that defines Jefferies. From cloud and data to AI, risk, and core business technologies, teams in Pune will lead high impact work with a global mandate.

IT Security Technology

Jefferies’ IT Security Technology / Global Information Security (GIS) team protects the firm’s critical systems, sensitive information, and global operations against evolving cyber threats. GIS partners with Technology, Operations, Corporate functions, and the Business to embed security into day-to-day operations while supporting productivity, regulatory compliance, and operational resilience. GIS balances strong controls with efficiency and operates globally across the US, EMEA, and APAC to provide round-the-clock coverage.

Jefferies is seeking a DevOps Engineer (Security) to drive DevOps technology adoption and modernization across our application development teams. This role is Senior Role who can design, implement, troubleshoot, and operate CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps tooling.

You will provide implementation and support services for our DevOps technology stack, work directly with developers to improve productivity and developer experience, and contribute to modernization initiatives including containers and Kubernetes. You will lead the teams when needed and partner with Cloud Engineering and Security to ensure our DevOps platforms support the firm’s cloud adoption (primarily AWS; Azure exposure is helpful but not a primary requirement).

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on ownership of DevOps tooling (central DevOps/global admin):
  
  Administer, maintain, and support on-prem DevOps platforms (Atlassian suite including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo; JFrog and others), including stability, performance, security, upgrades, and access controls.
• Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines end-to-end:
  
  Implement scalable CI/CD pipelines for a wide range of technologies (Java, C++, Python, etc.) for both native and containerized workloads.
• Kubernetes & container modernization (hands-on):
  
  Containerize existing applications and deploy/operate workloads on Kubernetes, including day-2 operations and troubleshooting.
• GitOps and modern delivery tooling:
  
  Implement and support GitOps workflows using Argo CD and related tooling; enable and support GitHub Actions where appropriate.
• Deep collaboration with application teams:
  
  Work directly with engineering teams to integrate DevOps tools into workflows, improve build/release practices, and unblock delivery issues.
• Automation & engineering enablement:
  
  Develop scripts and automation (Python/Bash/PowerShell) to streamline build, deployment, and operational processes.
• Platform monitoring and governance:
  
  Centrally monitor and manage repositories, builds, pipeline execution, artifact management, and deployment environments.
• Continuous improvement:
  
  Evaluate, recommend, and implement enhancements to the DevOps toolchain and engineering practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven hands-on DevOps experience operating and building solutions yourself (must be able to explain tools, workflows, and troubleshooting steps in detail).
• Strong experience managing on-prem DevOps tools, especially:
  • Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo)
  • JFrog (Artifactory and related components)
• Hands-on CI/CD engineering and pipeline implementation (Bamboo and/or Jenkins; plus modern tooling exposure).
• Kubernetes (hands-on): deploying, debugging, and operating containerized applications in Kubernetes environments.
• GitHub Actions exposure and ability to implement/maintain workflows.
• Argo CD / GitOps experience (implementation, troubleshooting, environment promotion patterns).
• Strong scripting skills: Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Strong version control knowledge: Git.
• Working proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code / configuration tools such as Terraform and Ansible; Kubernetes ecosystem tools such as Helm and Argo CD.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with application teams and communicate clearly across stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with AWS services used in CI/CD and container platforms.
• Working knowledge of Azure (not a primary requirement).
• Comfort reading/understanding codebases in Java and C++ (package management, build systems, compilation/tooling).

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Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.

At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.

Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.