About this role

Key Responsibilities

Incident & Problem Management

- Lead major incident (MI) bridges and restore service with minimum business impact.
- Handle all L3 escalations , perform deep diagnostics across Java, JVM, middleware, OS, and infra.
- Own technical RCAs , drive long‑term and systemic remediation.
- Identify recurring failure patterns and risks.

Reliability Engineering

- Apply SRE principles : SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, resilience patterns.
- Tune JVM parameters , analyze thread/heap dumps, and improve performance.
- Influence application architecture for fault tolerance, scalability, and recoverability .
- Validate DR readiness , failover behavior, and resilience testing outcomes.

Change, Release & Risk

- Provide technical approval and risk assessment for high-risk changes.
- Enforce operational readiness for new apps and major releases.
- Ensure changes meet audit, compliance, and regulatory expectations .

Automation, Monitoring & Observability

- Build advanced automation using Shell/Python/PowerShell .
- Develop frameworks for health validation , automated recovery, and compliance checks.
- Define observability standards; optimize alerts and improve MTTR .

Leadership & Mentorship

- Mentor L1/L2 teams; review and approve runbooks, SOPs, and KB articles.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to stakeholders and leadership.

Skills & Qualifications

Technical (Mandatory)

- Strong knowledge of application architecture, distributed systems, and middleware .
- Java expertise : JVM internals, GC, memory management, thread/heap dump analysis, performance tuning.
- .Net -- CLR internals, garbage collection, memory management, thread/dump analysis, and application performance tuning.
- Strong Unix/Linux , networking basics, and advanced scripting ( Shell/Python/PowerShell/VBS ).
- Advanced SQL and understanding of databases; Autosys (or equivalent scheduler).
- Handson with observability tools : Splunk, AppDynamics/Dynatrace, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus.

Reliability & Operations

- Major incident leadership, deep RCA, change/release readiness, DR & resilience engineering.
- Experience in regulated production environments .

Soft Skills

- Strong technical leadership and decision‑making.
- Clear communication during high‑pressure incidents.
- Ownership mindset and business awareness.

Experience & Education

- 7–12+ years in Application Reliability, Production Support, SRE, or platform operations.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent.
- ITIL, cloud, or industry certifications (preferred).
- Banking/financial domain experience (preferred).

Working Conditions

- On‑call and after‑hours support as required.
- Fast‑paced environment with multiple priorities.
- Hybrid working model