Description

We are seeking an experienced  Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead / Architect  to design, build, and evolve highly available, scalable, and secure payment platforms. The role requires strong expertise across  AWS cloud ,  enterprise middleware (IBM WebSphere, IBM MQ) ,  modern application stacks ,  observability , and  DevOps , with deep understanding of  Payments domain systems . You will define SRE strategy, reliability architecture, and operational excellence while collaborating closely with application, infrastructure, security, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability & Architecture

• Design and architect  highly resilient, fault tolerant payment systems  supporting high throughput and low latency SLAs.
• Define  SRE principles , including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability KPIs for mission critical payment services.
• Lead architecture decisions for  cloud native, hybrid, and legacy systems , including IBM WebSphere–based platforms.
• Drive  active active, DR, and HA strategies  for AWS and on prem integrations.

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Architect and operate workloads on  AWS  (EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch).
• Optimize infrastructure for  scalability, availability, security, and cost efficiency .
• Guide containerization and orchestration strategies where applicable.

Application & Middleware Expertise

• Partner with development teams on  Java, Spring Boot–based microservices .
• Support front end platforms built using  React and Angular  in terms of performance and reliability.
• Architect and operate messaging platforms using  Kafka  and  IBM MQ .
• Manage enterprise middleware including  IBM WebSphere Application Server .  

DevOps & Automation

• Build and maintain  CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins .
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and recovery processes.
• Promote  Infrastructure as Code (IaC)  and immutable infrastructure best practices.
• Champion DevOps and SRE culture across engineering teams.  

Observability & Operations

• Design and standardize monitoring, logging, and alerting using: Splunk AWS CloudWatch Datadog
• Implement proactive monitoring and advanced alerting for payment flows.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post incident reviews.
• Drive reduction in MTTR and recurring incidents.

Database & Data Layer

• Architect and support  PostgreSQL and Oracle  databases with focus on:
• o High availability
• o Performance tuning
• o Backup, restore, and disaster recovery

Payments Domain Leadership

• Provide reliability leadership for  payment processing systems  (authorization, capture, settlement, reconciliation).
• Ensure compliance with  PCI DSS, security, and regulatory standards  relevant to payments.
• Understand dependencies across gateways, processors, fraud, and downstream systems.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as  technical lead/architect  for SRE initiatives.
• Mentor SREs and engineers; guide best practices and standards.
• Work closely with product, architecture, security, and operations teams.
• Influence executive stakeholders on reliability, risk, and scalability decisions

Key Skills

Education

Any Graduate