Senior Associate, Platform SRE Engineer, SRE&Governance, Group Technology

Job Objective

DBS Bank is looking for a Platform SRE Engineer with experience working on enterprise level data engineering, analytics, and observability applications. The SRE engineer would be responsible for ensuring high availability of the platform services and perform continuous improvements to increase the platform’s efficiency and resiliency. The SRE engineer will also perform automation development tasks to remove toil and increase the team’s productivity.

Roles and Responsibilities

1. Develop monitoring and onboarding guidelines for various applications using observability platform stack, ensuring accurate monitoring and data collection.
2. Implement Observability standards, best practices, operations and processes for the Enterprise in Observability tools.
3. Automate routine tasks and reporting processes using APIs and scripting, reducing manual effort and improving efficiency in Observability tools (ELK, Grafana, AppDynamics etc)
4. Identify and resolve performance issues through detailed analysis of transaction traces, application logs, and system metrics.
5. Contribute to internal knowledge bases, create documentation, and share insights with the team to promote a culture of learning and collaboration.
6. Design and implement monitoring solutions to track application performance, identifying bottlenecks, capacity planning and optimising system efficiency.
7. Develop custom monitoring dashboards and generate automated reports to provide actionable insights
8. Collaborate with development and operations teams to integrate Observability platform stack with CI/CD pipelines and other DevOps tools.
9. Configure and fine-tune alerts to proactively detect and address performance issues before they impact end-users.
10. Create data retention polices and access controls (RBAC) to manage user permissions.
11. Perform application maintenance, patching, upgrading controller versions, agents etc, BAU support, capacity planning and ensure EOS/EOL is maintained

Deliverables

1. Ensure on-time delivery of tasks and projects.
2. Ensure continuous uptime of applications and services.
3. Ensure no security or audit issues. 

Job Dimensions

1. Comply to bank standards to track and follow up on the assigned projects.
2. Cover all areas in application and infrastructure operations of the platform.

Requirements

1. You should be a university graduate (computer science or related field) with good experience working with contemporary technologies and scripting languages.
2. Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management
3. A passion for learning and using new technologies in the open-source communities.
4. Min 3 years of IT work experience.
5. Working knowledge in ELK Stack, Grafana, Open Telemetry (OTEL)
6. Experience in triaging and troubleshooting application problems quickly in monitoring tools by using various techniques
7. Knowledgeable and experienced in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices covering monitoring, observability, performance management, automation, and resiliency.
8. Knowledge in Confluent Kafka, Prometheus & other APM tools (Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk) is a plus.
9. Knowledge in AI/ML capabilities to automate RCA’s and shorter MTTR when issues arise.
10. Good understanding of Network routing, Load balancing and Networking protocols; a base knowledge of TCP/IP, with an understanding of HTTP and DNS
11. Good problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills

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