NeGD is currently inviting applications for the position of DevSecOps / SRE Lead on a contractual basis for a period of three years, which may be further extended based on the requirements of the project.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform infrastructure strategy for the AI capability programme across all six pods, covering CI/CD, environment provisioning, secrets management, observability, and reliability engineering
• Design and maintain multi-environment infrastructure (development, staging, production) with appropriate isolation, promotion gates, and security controls for classified, internal, and public workloads
• Define infrastructure-as-code standards (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent) and drive their adoption across pods
• Establish the observability stack — metrics, logs, tracing, alerting — covering both AI-model and application layers, in coordination with the MLOps Lead
• Own incident response protocols and on-call rotation across the programme; conduct post-incident reviews and drive corrective actions
• Define availability and reliability SLOs for each pod’s production services; track error budgets and coordinate with Product Managers on trade-offs
• Oversee infrastructure security hardening — network policies, WAF operations, DDoS protection, VAPT remediation at the infrastructure layer — in coordination with the Security & Compliance Engineer
• Manage relationships with NIC, IndiaAI Compute, MeghRaj, and other government infrastructure providers; coordinate capacity planning and reserved-versus-on-demand mixing
• Ensure Data Residency, Data Storage, and Data Lifecycle Management compliance per the LoE(data within India, AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, sanitisation at project closure)
• Mentor DevOps/SRE Engineers and coordinate with MLOps Lead on shared platform responsibilities

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About National e-Governance Division (NeGD)

The National e-Governance Division (NeGD) is an independent business division under the Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. NeGD has been playing a pivotal role in supporting MeitY in Programme Management and implementation of e-Governance projects and initiatives undertaken by various Ministries/ Departments, both at the Central and State levels.

NeGD has been spearheading several innovative initiatives under the aegis of the Digital India Programme. Those have been developed keeping the vision areas of Digital India at the core- providing digital infrastructure as a core utility to every citizen, governance and services on demand and in particular, digital empowerment of the citizens of our country; some of these initiatives include DigiLocker, UMANG, Poshan Tracker, OpenForge Platform, API Setu, National Academic Depository, Academic Bank of Credits, Learning Management System.