Senior VP, SRE & Cloud Reliability Lead

DBS Bank Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 350,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

DBS Bank Ltd in Singapore is seeking a Senior Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead a 24/7 infrastructure operations and reliability team across private cloud, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and mainframe environments.

You will drive resilience, automation, and operational excellence across hybrid cloud and on-premises systems, aligning with risk, regulatory, and business priorities while mentoring a high-performing SRE organisation.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of IT infrastructure, SRE, or production operations experience.
• Proven leadership of large-scale 24/7 infrastructure teams in banking/financial services.
• Strong experience in hybrid cloud, data center, and enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a distributed 24/7 SRE infrastructure team, including shift-based operations and a command center.
• Define and execute the SRE strategy aligned to enterprise technology and business priorities.
• Establish governance across incident, problem, change, release, and capacity management.
• Drive SLA/SLO/SLI frameworks to ensure service reliability and performance targets.
• Oversee end-to-end reliability of infrastructure platforms: Cloud & Container, Hypervisors, Windows/Linux, TWS, Mainframe and Databases.
• Ensure high availability, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness across all critical systems.
• Champion SRE principles including error budgets, toil reduction, and automation-first mindset.
• Lead end-to-end observability strategy (monitoring, logging, tracing) and reduce MTTR.
• Embed ITIL best practices across service management processes.

Skills

Leadership

Incident management

Automation

Observability

SRE governance

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

VMware

Windows

Linux/Unix

Databases (MariaDB, Postgres, MSSQL, Redis, DB2)

Job description

DBS Bank Ltd in Singapore is seeking a Senior Vice President, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead a 24/7 infrastructure operations and reliability team across private cloud, OpenShift, Kubernetes, and mainframe environments.

You will drive resilience, automation, and operational excellence across hybrid cloud and on-premises systems, aligning with risk, regulatory, and business priorities while mentoring a high-performing SRE organisation.