Job ID 5246 Location Chennai IN Area of interest Technology Job type Regular Employee Work style Office Working Opening date 29 Sept 2025 Job Summary RESPONSIBILITIES Lead the implementation and advocacy for SRE Support SIte Reliablity Engineer principles to improve the reliability and availability of our applications Drive work on setting and maintaining SLI SLO Error budgets for our applications Responsible for developing and executing on the Chapter Vision together with the other Chapter Leads Drive technology strategy technology stack selection and implementation for a future-ready technology stack to achieve outcomes of highly scalable robust resilient system Experienced former practitioner with leadership ability Oversees the execution of functional standards and best practices Provide thought leadership on the craft inspire and retain talents by developing and nurturing an extensive internal and external network of practitioners This role is around capability building it is not to own applications or delivery Creates a strategy roadmap of technical work Works to drive technology convergence and simplification across their chapter area Technical Responsibilities Service Reliability Monitor and maintain the reliability availability and performance of production services and infrastructure Automation and Tooling Develop and maintain automation tools and processes to streamline system provisioning configuration management deployment and monitoring Incident Management Respond to and troubleshoot incidents outages and performance issues in production environments ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on users Blameless Postmortems and Learning from Incidents - Participate in the wider root cause analysis and support drive collaborative actions Capacity Planning Analyze system performance and capacity trends to forecast future resource requirements and optimize infrastructure utilization Performance Optimization Identify and address performance bottlenecks and optimization opportunities across the software stack from application code to underlying infrastructure Security and Compliance Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements collaborating with security and compliance teams as needed Continuous Improvement Continuously evaluate and improve system reliability scalability and performance through automation process refinement and technology upgrades Documentation and Knowledge Sharing Document system designs configurations and procedures and share knowledge with team members through documentation training and mentoring Key Responsibilities Strategy Reliability Engineering Strategy - Develop and execute a comprehensive reliability engineering strategy to ensure high availability fault tolerance and disaster recovery capabilities for critical systems and services Scalability Planning - Design and implement scalable architecture solution that can accommodate growth in user traffic and data volume over time Monitory and Alerting Strategy - Defining and implementing monitoring and alerting strategies to proactively identify and address issues before they reach the end users Capacity Planning Strategies - Develop capacity planning strategies to ensure that systems have sufficient resources to handle current and future workloads Business Experienced practitioner and hands on contribution to the squad delivery for their craft Eg SRE Responsible for balancing skills and capabilities across teams squads and hives in partnership with the Chief Product Owner Hive Leadership and in alignment with the fixed capacity model Responsible to evolve the craft towards improving automation simplification and innovative use of latest market trends Trusted advisor to the business Work hand in hand with the Business taking product programs from investment decisions into design specification and solution phases all the way to operations on the ground and securing support services from other teams Provide leadership and technical expertise for the subdomain to achieve goals and outcomes Support respective businesses in the commercialisation of capabilities bid teams monitoring of usage improving client experience and collecting defects for future improvements Manage business partner expectations Ensure delivery to business meeting time cost and with high quality Skills and Experience Processes Chapter Lead may vary based upon the specific chapter domain its leading Define standards to ensure that applications are designed with scale resilience and performance in mind Enforce and streamline sound development practices and establish and maintain effective governance processes including training advice and support to assure the platforms are developed implemented and maintained aligning with the Group s standards Responsible for overall governance of the subdomain that includes financial management risk management representation in steering committee reviews and engagement with business for strategy change management and timely course correction as required Ensure compliance to the highest standards of business conduct regulatory requirements and practices defined by internal and external requirements This includes compliance with local banking laws and anti-money laundering stipulations People Talent Accountable for people management and capability development of their Chapter members Reviews metrics on capabilities and performance across their area has improvement backlog for their Chapters and drives continual improvement of their chapter Focuses on the development of people and capabilities as the highest priority Ensure that the organisation works in a proactive way to upgrade capacity well in advance and predict future capacity needs Responsible for building an engineering culture where application and infrastructure scalability is paramount for on-going capacity management with an aim to reduce the need for capacity reviews using monitoring and auto-scale properties Empower the engineers so that they can provide economy of scale focused on delivering value speed to market availability monitoring system management Foster a culture of innovation transparency and accountability end to end in the subdomain while promoting a business-first mentality at all levels Develop and maintain a plan that provides for succession and continuity in the most critical delivery and management position Risk Management Responsible for effective capacity risk management across the Chapter with regards to attrition and leave plans Ensures the chapter follows the standards with respect to risk management as applicable to their chapter domain Adheres to common practices to mitigate risk in their respective domain Effectively and collaboratively identify escalate mitigate and resolve risk conduct and compliance matters Incident Response Planning - Develop incident response plans and procedures to effectively mitigate and manage risks when they materialize Risk monitoring and alerting - Implement monitoring and alerting systems to detect early warning signs of potential risks Root Cause analysis - Conduct thorough root cause analysis of incidents and outages to understand the underlying causes and contributing factors Qualifications Other Responsibilities Embed Here for Good and Group s brand and values in the digital sales commerce team Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group Country Business or Functional policies and procedures QUALIFICATIONS TRAINING LICENSES MEMBERSHIPS AND CERTIFICATIONS Requirements Skills Bachelor s degree in computer science Information Technology or related field or equivalent experience Proven experience 10 years as an SRE Engineer or in a similar role with a proven track record of leadership Strong understanding of SRE principles and practices Proficiency in troubleshooting complex issues and exceptional problem-solving skills Deep knowledge of a wide array of software applications and infrastructure Experience with monitoring and observability tools e g Prometheus Grafana AppDynamics Splunk PagerDuty Proficiency in scripting and automation e g Python Bash Ansible Familiarity with cloud platforms e g AWS Azure and containerization technologies e g Docker Kubernetes Excellent communication and collaboration skills Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic setting Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality results Ability to debug and troubleshoot Java applications Proficiency in using Splunk for log management and analysis Familiarity with CI CD tools and practices Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS GCP or Azure Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment Prior experience with DevOps practices continuous integration continuous delivery CI CD pipelines and infrastructure as code IaC is a plus Role Specific Technical Competencies Software Engineering Systems Software Infrastructure Platform Architecture Programming Scripting Java Python or Similar Programming Language Cloud AWS Azure GCP Database Development Service Excellence Agile Application Delivery Process Operating Systems Network Fundamentals Security Fundamentals Credit Card and Lending Domain Knowledge About Standard Chartered We re an international bank nimble enough to act big enough for impact For more than 170 years we ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients communities and each other We question the status quo love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before If you re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference we want to hear from you You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can t wait to see the talents you can bring us Our purpose to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity together with our brand promise to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours When you work with us you ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion Together we Do the right thing and are assertive challenge one another and live with integrity while putting the client at the heart of what we do Never settle continuously striving to improve and innovate keeping things simple and learning from doing well and not so well Are better together we can be ourselves be inclusive see more good in others and work collectively to build for the long term What we offer In line with our Fair Pay Charter we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental physical financial and social wellbeing Core bank funding for retirement savings medical and life insurance with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations Time-off including annual leave parental maternity 20 weeks sabbatical 12 months maximum and volunteering leave 3 days along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday which is combined to 30 days minimum Flexible working options based around home and office locations with flexible working patterns Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind a market-leading digital wellbeing platform development courses for resilience and other human skills global Employee Assistance Programme sick leave mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits A continuous learning culture to support your growth with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical virtual and digital learning Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity across our teams business functions and geographies - 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📍 Tamil Nadu