SRE Lead
Core
Leading the operational health and production readiness of a cloud-native, event-driven microservices payment platform migrating from a legacy monolith.
Role type
Senior SRE Lead (Site Reliability Engineering)
Builds
Cloud-native payment processing platform on AWS (Kubernetes, Confluent Cloud, Aurora PostgreSQL, Java/Quarkus)
Domain
Fintech / High-volume distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
SRE practices, observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Dynatrace), SLI/SLO definition, resilience engineering (chaos testing, circuit breakers), AWS & Kubernetes, event-driven systems (Kafka), capacity planning, automation
Preferred skills
Payments domain experience, incident management tooling, chaos engineering frameworks
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, Confluent Cloud, Aurora PostgreSQL, Java, Quarkus, Dynatrace, Splunk, Fluent Bit, Prometheus, Argo Rollouts, OpenTelemetry
Responsibilities
Define production readiness standards (observability, SLOs, runbooks), build and maintain observability stack, define and implement SLIs/SLOs, own incident response practices, drive resilience engineering (chaos testing, load testing), support engineering teams on operability design, manage legacy-to-new system transition, automate operational toil, perform capacity planning
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities