Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

FIS; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaboration culture

Competitive salary & benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

FIS is seeking an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability of critical services in a hybrid Chennai setting. You will define SLIs/SLOs, build and automate CI/CD pipelines, and drive capacity planning and incident response enhancements.

The role requires 8–12 years of experience, strong scripting skills, and expertise with Docker/Kubernetes. A focus on problem solving and analytics will help reduce MTTR and improve service resilience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge in performance monitoring and analytics.
• Hands-on experience with Docker/Kubernetes and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Define meaningful SLIs/SLOs for owned services and track error budgets.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration.
• Forecast capacity for services and plan for growth.
• Analyze patterns and correlations to improve system reliability.

Skills

Performance monitoring

Scripting

CI/CD

End to End thinking

Problem solving

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Type Of Hire

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Position Type

Full time

Type Of Hire

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Education Desired

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.

Work Location ~ Chennai (Two days in-office, Three days virtual)

Experience ~ 8 to 12 Years

What You Will Be Doing

• Defines meaningful SLIs, SLOs for owned services; tracks error budgets and burn rates
• Advanced scripting, CI/CD, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Forecasts capacity for owned services; plans for growth
• Pattern Analysis and Correlation skillset

What You Bring

Must Have

• Strong Knowledge in Performance Monitoring Tools like Dynatrace, Splunk and ability to create Dashboards, Views and Alerts
• Knowledge in OS, Network, Middleware, Database, SSL, Load Balancer
• Must have knowledge in scripting language (Unix Shell, Windows Scripting, Python, Java, .NET...)
• Hands on with at least one of (Unix/Windows Scripting, Python, Java, C++, C#)
• Ability to Automate repetitive tasks - (Scripting, RPA, Power Automate, UiPath etc.)
• Ability to implement AI models in Problem Solving and reduce MTTR
• Experience with Virtualization / Containerization in a production environment (e.g. Kubernetes, etc.);
• Engineering Mindset with End to End view and provide solutions
• Passion for problem solving with strong analytical capabilities

Preferable to Have

• Banking / Payments Product Domain Knowledge
• Experience in Fintech working in Fintech Companies with rich Domain Experience

What We Offer You

• A work environment built on collaboration, flexibility and respect
• Competitive salary and attractive range of benefits designed to help support your lifestyle and wellbeing
• Varied and challenging work to help you grow your technical skillset

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Sourcing Model

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