Senior SRE / Observability Engineer

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Job Description

Senior SRE / Observability Engineer

Location: Hyderabad / Chennai / Bangalore

Experience: 8 - 15 Years

Notice Period: Immediate to 15 Days

Requirements:

• Provide SRE and Dynatrace subject matter expertise to mature observability across the Core Banking Vault ecosystem, supporting a single pane of glass view across services, dependencies and operational health.
• Work with upstream and downstream neighbours to strengthen end-to-end monitoring, ensuring consistent telemetry ingestion, dashboards, alerts and actionable insight across critical service journeys.
• Expand monitoring capability across Istio, Kafka, synthetic monitoring and cloud cost observability, with a focus on standardisation, automation, incident reduction and operational resilience.
• Establish and embed SLI/SLO practices, including service level indicators, service level objectives, error budgets, burn-rate alerting and evidence-based reliability improvements.
• Support ongoing training and knowledge transfer to build internal capability and improve consistent use of Dynatrace and observability practices across the platform. Essential Skills:-
• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Observability Engineering, Platform Engineering or DevOps within cloud-native and business-critical environments.
• Hands-on experience with Dynatrace, including dashboarding, alerting, telemetry analysis, synthetic monitoring and configuration management.
• Strong understanding of observability principles across metrics, logs, traces, events, service dependencies and user journeys.
• Experience applying observability configuration using self-service or automated platforms, with good governance and standardisation.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes platforms, preferably GKE, and service mesh technologies such as Istio.
• Experience using OpenTelemetry data, including standardised ingestion, reporting, dashboards and alert generation.
• Strong working knowledge of Kafka observability, including monitoring brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, lag, throughput, errors and resilience indicators.
• Experience defining and implementing SLI/SLO frameworks, including burn-rate alerting, error budgets and reliability dashboards.

Required Skills

• Strong experience refining alerts to reduce false positives and improve actionable alerting for genuine service issues.
• Good understanding of incident management, problem management, operational readiness and continuous improvement practices.
• Banking or core banking platform experience.
• Experience working with Thought Machine Vault.
• Experience supporting observability for large-scale distributed systems and regulated production platforms.
• Experience integrating observability data with cloud cost data to support FinOps insight and cost optimisation.
• Experience with GCP cost management, FinOps practices, cloud consumption reporting or cost-to-service mapping.
• Experience designing training material, running enablement sessions and building internal knowledge across engineering teams.
• Knowledge of operational resilience frameworks, service health reporting and evidence-based reliability improvement.