Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SBI

Role Title

Senior / Lead Site Reliability Engineer Domain

Enterprise Banking Platforms & Financial Systems

Experience Required

5 to 8 Years

Employment Type

Full-time

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 5+ years of experience to lead the reliability engineering strategy for our core banking infrastructure and distributed transaction processing applications. You will design self-healing architectures, establish SLOs/SLAs, lead major incident resolution, and drive zero-downtime architecture for mission-critical financial platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability Architecture & Design

Partner with software architects to design fault-tolerant, multi-region distributed banking systems capable of processing millions of daily transactions.

SLO & Error Budget Management

Define and manage Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets alongside product managers to balance feature velocity with system stability.

Advanced Automation & IaC

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes operators. Build automated self-healing mechanisms to resolve known failure modes without human intervention.

Incident Leadership & Postmortems

Lead response for high-priority (P1/P2) banking outages. Facilitate blameless post-mortems and enforce long-term root cause remediations.

Capacity & Chaos Engineering

Forecast system growth, conduct load testing under peak banking hours, and run Chaos Engineering experiments (Gremlin, Chaos Mesh) to uncover hidden vulnerabilities.

Compliance & Security

Ensure infrastructure complies with banking regulatory frameworks (PCI-DSS, SOC2, Central Bank guidelines) and lead automated compliance auditing tools.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Education

B Tech or Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Deep Experience

5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering, with at least 2 years in banking, fintech, or high-volume transactional environments.

Orchestration & Cloud

Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes (CKA certified preferred) and public/hybrid cloud enterprise architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Software Development

Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or Java for builop[0ding internal SRE tooling, CLI utilities, and automated controllers.

Data Stores

Understanding of high-availability relational (PostgreSQL, Oracle) and distributed non-relational databases (Cassandra, Redis, Kafka).

Observability

Mastery of ELK/EFK stack, Open Telemetry, Prometheus, Cortex/Thanos, and distributed tracing (Jaeger/Zipkin).