Application Deployment Engineer

About the role

Group Technology and Operations (T&O) manages the majority of the bank's operational processes and delivers banking services through multiple channels. It is looking for an Application Deployment Engineer in Hyderabad to review, plan, coordinate and execute manual and hybrid application deployments across production and pre-production environments, in line with approved Change Requests.

Key responsibilities

• Review, plan, coordinate and execute manual and hybrid deployments across production and pre-production environments according to approved Change Requests.
• Validate implementation plans, dependencies, prerequisites, validation steps, monitoring and rollback procedures before deployment.
• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, database, platform, business and support teams to ensure deployment readiness.
• Deploy application binaries, services, configuration files, certificates, scheduled jobs, middleware, web/application servers, containers and database changes within approved change windows.
• Monitor deployments, validate control points, and initiate pause, rollback or escalation when needed.
• Perform post-deployment validation of application health, services, logs, connectivity and monitoring alerts, and coordinate Business Level Validation and handover to L2/L3 and business teams.
• Maintain deployment timelines, execution evidence, logs, approvals, validation results and closure documentation.
• Provide deployment hypercare and support recovery, release-related incidents, application restoration and batch/job failures.
• Identify repeatable manual activities and recommend safe automation, and ensure compliance with change management, security, segregation-of-duties, privileged access and audit requirements.

Required profile

• 6 to 12 years of hands-on experience in manual and hybrid application deployments, including CI/CD workflows.
• Strong knowledge of change management, ITIL practices and release governance.
• Working knowledge of server infrastructure, including Windows/Linux, networking, DNS, load balancers, certificates and file systems.
• Basic knowledge of Kubernetes/OpenShift and database script execution, validation, connectivity and rollback.
• Strong understanding of deployment risk, incident management, troubleshooting and escalation procedures.
• English at C2 proficiency.