Manager, DevOps Specialist; Microfinance Programme

Job Description

Title: Manager, DevOps Specialist; Microfinance Programme

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: At least 27 years

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: --

Experience:

• At least 5 years

• Bachelors in CSE/ IT or equivalent from any reputed educational institute.

• At least 5 years

• Age At least 27 years

Additional Job Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of DevOps principles, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Agile methodologies, containerization, Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, and automation.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar platforms.

• Proven expertise in infrastructure automation, deployment management, cloud platforms, DevOps governance, and operational reliability.

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to lead cross-Results-oriented with strategic thinking, leadership, adaptability, and a continuous improvement mindset.

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or cloud operations with hands-on expertise in CI/CD, automation, and cloud-native technologies.

BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.
BRAC Microfinance provides people who cannot access traditional financial banking services with access to a suite of financial services, including loans, savings and microinsurance. We provide an alternative to high-interest loans from informal lenders, supporting families to invest in income-generating activities, build assets, and reduce vulnerability to health shocks and natural disasters. Passionate about finance beyond formal banking systems? Join the BRAC Microfinance team to help build a more financially-inclusive society, where everyone can access finance when they need it - safely, responsibly and sustainably.
Working at brac is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.
Job Purpose: The role responsible for governing and driving the organization’s DevOps strategy through the implementation of scalable CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and operational excellence practices. The role ensures efficient collaboration between development, operations, security, and infrastructure teams by establishing standardized DevOps frameworks, governance controls, and automation best practices. The position also oversees platform reliability, deployment efficiency, system scalability, and continuous improvement initiatives to accelerate software delivery while maintaining security, stability, and performance across the technology ecosystem.
Location: BRAC Head Office
Key Responsibilities:

• Define and own the overall DevOps strategy, roadmap, and adoption plan aligned with organizational technology goals and software delivery objectives.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers, providing technical direction, career guidance, and performance oversight.

• Establish and enforce DevOps standards, best practices, toolchain selection, and process frameworks across all teams and projects.

• Architect, implement, and oversee end-to-end CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, security scanning, and deployment processes across all environments.

• Define pipeline standards including branching strategies, environment promotion workflows, approval gates, and rollback mechanisms.

• Oversee multi-environment infrastructure management including development, staging, UAT, and production ensuring consistency and environment parity.

• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives by identifying waste, rightsizing resources, and implementing tagging and governance policies.

• Define and implement a comprehensive observability strategy covering metrics, logs, traces, and alerting across all infrastructure and application layers.

• Oversee the deployment and governance of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK Stack, or equivalent platforms.

• Integrate security practices throughout the DevOps lifecycle by embedding automated security scanning, secret management, and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.

• Define autoscaling strategies for compute, containerized workloads, and database tiers to handle variable traffic patterns efficiently.

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation to achieve the program’s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance, and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place and encourage others to do so.

• Festival Bonus, Contributory Provident Fund, Gratuity, Performance Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, Maternity/ Paternity Leave, Wellness Centre Facility, Day Care Facility and others as per policy.