Lead Site Reliability Engineer SRE

FIS; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

FIS invites an experienced Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Chennai team. The role requires 8 to 12 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering.

You will lead reliability efforts, define SLIs/SLOs, and own capacity planning for critical services. You will work in a hybrid model (two days in-office, three days remote) and collaborate across engineering, operations, and product teams to maintain high availability.

Qualifications

• Defines meaningful SLIs and SLOs for owned services; tracks budgets.
• Advanced scripting, CI/CD, container orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Forecasts capacity for owned services; plans for growth.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Dynatrace

Splunk

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Shell scripting

Java

C++

Automation

AI in problem solving

MTTR reduction

Unix scripting

Windows scripting

Education

Bachelor of Computer Engineering

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

CI/CD tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description:

Full time

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

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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