Associate Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: Mumbai / Pune
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly motivated Associate Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our global Platform Reliability Engineering team. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of critical front-to-back platforms supporting post-trade processing.
The ideal candidate will have a strong software engineering foundation, production support experience, and a passion for automation, observability, and reliability engineering. You will work closely with development, infrastructure, and business teams to improve system resilience, enhance operational visibility, reduce manual intervention, and deliver highly available services.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively monitor platform health and drive improvements in reliability, performance, availability, and operational efficiency.
- Perform incident triage, troubleshooting, communication, and post-incident reviews to minimize business impact and prevent recurrence.
- Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to design and implement scalable and resilient solutions.
- Build and enhance deployment and observability capabilities, including dashboards, alerts, and service health monitoring using Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry.
- Analyze logs, metrics, and distributed traces to proactively identify system bottlenecks and reliability issues.
- Support enterprise messaging and event-driven architectures, including Kafka-based platforms and integrations.
- Apply capacity planning and availability management best practices to improve platform resilience.
- Develop automation to reduce operational toil, minimize manual intervention, and improve service efficiency.
- Participate in production support, problem management, release management, and change management activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Reliability Engineering (PRE), DevOps, Production Support, or Application Support.
- Strong programming and scripting experience in one or more languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
- Solid understanding of software engineering principles, data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Strong working knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows Server environments.
- Experience with modern monitoring and observability practices and tooling.
- Strong understanding of observability and reliability concepts, including metrics, logs, traces, SLIs, SLOs, and alerting.
- Good understanding of event-driven architectures and enterprise messaging platforms such as Kafka and MQ.
- Experience troubleshooting distributed production systems, including APIs, middleware components, and message flows.
- Understanding incident management, problem management, root cause analysis, and operational support processes.
- Familiarity with source control, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevOps practices.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and capable of working independently in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Qualifications
Observability & Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry and Loki
DevOps & Automation: Git, Ansible and CI/CD Frameworks
Container & Platform Technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
Data & Messaging Platforms: Kafka, Redis, MQ
Cloud Technologies: AWS
About Us
Jefferies is a leading global, full-service investment banking and capital markets firm that provides advisory, sales and trading, research, and wealth and asset management services. With more than 40 offices around the world, we offer insights and expertise to investors, companies, and governments.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline
- 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Production Support, or Application Support
- Strong programming and scripting experience in Python, Go, Java, or similar languages
- Understanding of software engineering principles, data structures, algorithms, and system design
- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows Server environments
- Experience with modern monitoring and observability practices and tooling
- Understanding of metrics, logs, traces, SLIs, SLOs, and alerting
- Understanding of event-driven architectures and enterprise messaging platforms such as Kafka and MQ
- Experience troubleshooting distributed production systems, APIs, middleware components, and message flows
- Understanding of incident management, problem management, root cause analysis, and operational support processes
- Familiarity with source control, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with technical and business stakeholders
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Loki
- Experience with Git, Ansible, and CI/CD frameworks
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience with Kafka, Redis, and MQ
- Experience with AWS
Jefferies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jefferies and has not been reviewed or approved by Jefferies.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Compensation is positioned as competitive with meaningful upside, with potential for significant earnings depending on group performance and strong years. A formulaic, performance-linked bonus model ties payouts to individual fees or P&L, reinforcing a pay-for-results dynamic.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-building support is broad, including primary and non-primary caregiver leave, adoption assistance, subsidized emergency child and eldercare, and a $25,000 stipend for qualified surrogacy, adoption, or fertility support. Added resources like family support programs and parental-leave coaching further strengthen caregiver benefits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Lifestyle perks extend beyond standard coverage, including discount programs, commuter benefits, legal plans, charitable matching, and education assistance such as tuition support and scholarships for employees’ family members. Location-specific perks like gym stipends and free cafeteria lunch are also described as available in some offices.
Jefferies Insights
What We Do
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for 60 years. Headquartered in New York, with offices in over 30 cities around the world, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, as well as asset and wealth management. The firm provides research and execution services in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets, as well as a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services, with all businesses operating in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies Group LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF), a diversified financial services company. More about our company can be found at www.jefferies.com.
