Job Description

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\xe2\x80\x99s efficiency and resiliency. The SRE engineer will also perform automation development tasks to remove toil and increase the team\xe2\x80\x99s productivity. Lastly, the SRE engineer will develop and support simple dashboard applications.

Roles and Responsibilities: * Implement and maintain highly resilient, highly available data engineering, monitoring and analytics application clusters. Perform production support for the platform.

• Setup the server infrastructure as per design. Ensure implementation meets bank\xe2\x80\x99s security standards and industry\xe2\x80\x99s security standards.
• Perform continuous improvement for the platform covering areas such as: capacity planning, observability, monitoring, reliability, and resiliency.
• Design and develop data engineering pipelines.
• Automate repetitive tasks, optimize processes and perform thorough testing to ensure quality.
• Create and maintain software documentation for the platform.
• Perform application maintenance, patching and upgrades.
• Develop simple dashboard applications.

Deliverables: * Ensure on-time delivery of tasks and projects.

• Ensure continuous uptime of applications and services.
• Ensure no security or audit issues.

Job Dimensions: * Comply to bank standards to track and follow up on the assigned projects.

• Cover all areas in application and infrastructure operations of the platform.

Education and Relevant Experience: * You should be a university graduate (computer science or related field) with good experience working with contemporary technologies and scripting languages.

• Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management
• A passion for learning and using new technologies in the open source communities.
• A passion for coding.

Functional / Technical Competencies: * Looking for 4 or more years of IT work experience.

• Good knowledge and hands on experience in Grafana, Elastic stack (Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana / Beats) and Kafka including set up, configuration, upgrade, patching, data ingestion, management, monitoring & analytics features, developing dashboard
• Good knowledge and experience in Linux Shell and Python scripting.
• Self-driven, committed, and reliable team player. Passionate to learn new technologies.
• Additional knowledge and experience for following areas below is not mandatory but would be a plus
• SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices covering monitoring, observability, performance management, automation, and resiliency.
• Object Oriented Programming, web application development, NodeJS, Spring boot and Kafka
• Automation tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc.) & DevOps pipelines

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