Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Commonwealth Bank · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Financial Services · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will improve the reliability, availability, and recoverability of monitoring and screening platforms while managing SLIs, SLOs, and observability. They will also provide production support, lead incident response, and mentor offshore engineering teams to ensure operational maturity.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have at least 10 years of relevant software development experience and strong expertise in SRE practices and AWS cloud services. A Bachelor of Engineering or B. Tech degree is required, along with proficiency in Python, Shell scripting, and financial crime platform operations.
Full description
Organization:
At CommBank, we never lose sight of the role we play in other people’s financial wellbeing. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations. Regardless of where you work within our organisation, your initiative, talent, ideas, and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can achieve great things.
Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team:
Financial Crime Technology (FCT) are accountable for build & maintenance of Technology Services to fulfil the Group's Financial Crime Regulatory & Compliance Obligations. Our focus is to help people and businesses move forward to progress. To make the right financial decisions and achieve their dreams, targets, and aspirations.
The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will play a key role and strengthen the stability, resiliency, and operational maturity of our FCP Service/Oracle FCMRE.
Impact & contribution:
The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in delivering strategic regulatory reporting initiatives, supporting production operations, and driving the integration of our future-state data architecture. This position requires a combination of deep technical expertise, strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and the ability to lead and mentor offshore engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Improve reliability, availability, and recoverability of Monitoring & Screening platforms
- Define and manage SLIs/SLOs, alerting, and observability to proactively manage service health.
- Provide L1/L2 production support for FCP Platform, AutoSys batch scheduling, API services, and cloud-hosted components (AWS).
- Build and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and automation to reduce operational cost.
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews across screening, batch, and cloud ecosystems.
- Implement and operate CI/CD pipelines and support cloud-native deployments.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts (Python/Shell) to support batch processing and operational tasks.
- Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to design reliable, scalable screening and cloud-integrated solutions.
- Participate in on-call rotations as per operational requirements
Skills & Experience Essential
- Min 10+ years of relevant hands-on work experience in software development
- Experience on operating production-grade systems with strong reliability and availability requirements.
- Strong knowledge of SRE and Observability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs).
- Hands-on experience with Customer Screening / Financial Crime platform and Oracle FCMRE.
- Strong Experience with AWS cloud services (e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC) and cloud-based architectures.
- Contribute to DevSecOps changes and help the engineering chapter towards higher DevSecOps maturity
- Experience with batch processing frameworks and schedulers (e.g. AutoSys).
- Working knowledge of API development and integration (RESTful services).
- Very Strong scripting skills in Python and Shell for automation and operational support.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g. Github actions, Teamcity, Octopus).
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, PagerDuty. Preferably working experience in Observe setting up datasets, monitoring, and alerts
- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix environments.
- Expert troubleshooting of implementation, environment and deployment issues.
- Experience in Java, NodeJS, C#.
Qualification: Bachelor of Engineering or B. Tech
If you're already part of the Commonwealth Bank Group (including Bankwest, x15ventures), you'll need to apply through Sidekick to submit a valid application. We’re keen to support you with the next step in your career.
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