Senior SRE / Observability Engineer

Maneva Consulting; Hyderabad, Chennai District, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maneva Consulting invites an experienced Senior SRE / Observability Engineer to Hyderabad/Bangalore/Chennai for maturing observability across the Core Banking Vault ecosystem. You will guide a single pane of glass view over services, dependencies, and health, leveraging Dynatrace and cloud-native tooling.

The role emphasizes standardizing telemetry ingestion, building dashboards and alerts, implementing SLI/SLOs, and driving reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Observability Engineering, Platform Engineering or DevOps in cloud-native, critical environments.
• Hands-on Dynatrace including dashboards, alerts, telemetry analysis and configuration management.
• Proficient in Kubernetes (preferably GKE) and Istio service mesh.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry data for standardized ingestion, reporting, dashboards and alerting.
• Knowledge of Kafka observability (brokers, topics, lag, throughput, errors, resilience).
• Ability to define and implement SLI/SLO frameworks and burn-rate alerting.

Responsibilities

• Mature observability across the Core Banking Vault ecosystem for a single-pane-of-glass view of services and health.
• Strengthen end-to-end monitoring with consistent telemetry ingestion, dashboards, alerts, and actionable insights across service journeys.
• Expand monitoring to Istio, Kafka, synthetic monitoring and cloud cost observability with standardization and automation.
• Embed and enforce SLI/SLO practices, error budgets, burn-rate alerts, and reliability improvements.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer to build internal capability in Dynatrace and observability across the platform.

Skills

SRE

Observability

Dynatrace

Kubernetes (GKE)

Istio

OpenTelemetry

Kafka observability

SLI/SLO

FinOps

Burn-rate alerts

Tools

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Istio

Job description

Greetings from Maneva!

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.