Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of SRE engineers and platform developers across distributed locations.
• Translate architectural requirements into detailed technical solutions and engineering tasks.
• Review and guide design, code, automation pipelines, Kubernetes deployments, and IaC modules.
• Architect and optimize enterprise Linux environments, virtualization platforms, clustering, and NFS storage.
• Lead deployment and tuning of messaging systems including IBM MQ, RabbitMQ, and Erlang/Mnesia engines.
• Oversee implementation of load balancers (F5 LTM/ASM/ASR), proxies, networking, and hybrid connectivity.
• Design, build, and optimize cloud and hybrid environments across AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Lead Kubernetes architecture, resource organization, workload scaling, observability, and resilience patterns.
• Guide container platform enhancements including service mesh, pod security, and cluster governance.
• Architect IaC frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, and Chef.
• Develop reusable automation standards, modules, libraries, and operational workflows.
• Drive automation for provisioning, patching, compliance, deployments, and operational tasks.
• Build platform utilities, automation services, schedulers, orchestration engines using Core Java, Spring Boot, Quartz, and Erlang.
• Develop integration modules for messaging systems, connectors, event pipelines, and internal micro‑services.
• Implement operational tooling, log processors, alert engines, webhook handlers, and reliability frameworks.
• Design and maintain observability pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and Splunk.
• Ensure reliability, performance, and cluster tuning across relational and NoSQL platforms.
• Communicate technical decisions, risks, and progress clearly to stakeholders.
• Support delivery governance and contribute to engineering roadmaps and improvement initiatives.

Requirements:

• Hands on experience in Core Java 1.8, Spring, Spring Boot, Quartz
• Hands on experience with messaging systems such as RabbitMQ and IBM MQ
• Experience in Linux Operating Systems (Oracle Linux 7.6)
• Experience in Application Servers, preferably IBM WebSphere / Apache Tomcat 8.5.x
• Experience in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• Strong experience in XML, XSL, XSLT
• Experience in Hardware Security Modules (HSM) such as PayShield 9000 / Shield XC High
• Experience in communication protocols such as REST, AMQP, JMS
• Experience in DevOps teams and industry standard CI/CD tools including:Jenkins, GitLab, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Chef CI, GitHub Actions, Scripting using Python, Go, and Bash
• Cloud exposure on AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience in supporting large, complex, high availability, high volume applications
• Understanding of failover mechanisms and disaster recovery
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience in Virtualization Technologies, including Oracle VM (OVM) in LAC / VMware environments
• Good understanding of infrastructure components, including F5 load balancers
• Experience in monitoring tools such as Tivoli, and Splunk
• Experience in payments processing systems or the banking/financial services industry
• Experience in Shell scripting
• Experience in process driven environments (e.g., ITIL)
• 8+years of engineering experience with strong infrastructure SRE background.
• Experience designing and optimizing enterprise infrastructure, high‑availability systems, and messaging platforms.
• Experience in developers/SREs, conducting technical reviews, and driving engineering best practices.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex multi‑layered issues across infra, container, messaging, and application ecosystems.
• Strong history of involvement in incident management, RCA, reliability improvements, and operational readiness.