Job Description

Business Function

Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank\'s operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.

The Role

This is a unique opportunity to drive the SRE engineering and delivery of our programs. Driving forward our engineering teams on modern technology stacks, focussing on reliability, monitoring and observability

Job Purpose

We are looking for a dynamic SRE Lead that can build a world class team that ships high quality production code daily. As an SRE lead, you\'ll be responsible for shaping our SRE strategy and building out to that strategy for distributed cloud native architectures that securely serve millions of customers every day. We expect the candidate to have practical banking experience in managing incidents and administrating Enterprise Web/Mobile applications.

SRE lead will be responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.

Background we are looking for:

• Experience working in Agile-based SDLC environment and participating in different Scrum sessions
• Manage high severity incidents and high customer impact incidents focusing on fast recovery
• Champions production resilience and availability, focusing on superior client experience, by working with the operation team and technology development teams
• Drive the implementation of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and Chaos Engineering design for all strategic systems
• Drive effective communication between business and technology with regards to production service reliability and performance

• Drive continuous improvements in processes or systems leveraging Site Reliability Engineering methods
• Respond to, evaluate and analyse production incidents to minimize their impact as well as devise innovative solutions to prevent them in the future
• Improve the reliability and availability of systems by gathering hard data, designing systems for increased service reliability and performance
• Provide expert advice and training to our engineers as to which technology solutions and advanced reliability techniques to use on each situation
• Strong experience on building microservices with spring boot.

• Excellent programming skills in Java, J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Servlets, JSP, jQuery, HTML, Ajax, JavaScript developing client-server, n-tier, Web and Distributed Applications
• Experience working in version control tools like GIT and SVN; build tools like Maven; continuous integration tools like Jenkins, and issue-tracking platform like JIRA
• Writing, updating, and using documentation, including runbooks/playbooks

Requirements

• Experience with Banking at least 5 years will be an added advantage
• At least 5 years of working experience in J2EE Servers like Jboss, Tomcat and Apache
• Knows their way around a Unix/Linux shell
• Understands networking and messaging, especially between services
• Experience using source control (Git) and feature branching strategies
• Has experience with variety of databases MySQL, Redis.
• Bachelor\'s Degree in Computer Science and at least 10 or more years of relevant experience
• Experience driving major production incidents and organised incident Retrospective Meetings
• Experience with high availability, high-scale, and performance systems

Leadership and Management Skills/ Drive

• Self-disciplined and motivated - Ability to work independently without much supervision
• A pro-active \'can-do\' attitude
• Ability to prioritize and self-manage incidents and defects

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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognises your achievements.

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