Description
Vice President, Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Pune

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Vice President, Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead reliability engineering initiatives across critical front-to-back trading, post-trade, and operations platforms. The role combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic leadership, driving platform stability, operational excellence, observability, automation, and resilience across the technology estate.

The successful candidate will partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, Architecture, Operations, and Business stakeholders globally to define reliability standards, drive platform modernization, reduce operational risk, and improve service availability.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability & Platform Engineering Leadership
- Provide technical leadership for platform reliability, stability, scalability, and resilience across business-critical production systems.
- Define and drive the strategic roadmap for Platform Reliability Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering practices.




- Establish reliability objectives, service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and operational excellence standards across supported platforms.
- Act as a senior escalation point during major incidents, driving resolution, recovery, stakeholder communication, and post-incident reviews.
- Lead root cause analysis initiatives and ensure corrective and preventative actions are implemented effectively.

Operational Excellence
- Drive reduction of operational toil through automation, self-healing capabilities, and process simplification.
- Establish best practices for incident management, problem management, change management, and release governance.
- Identify reliability risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies to improve platform resilience.
- Define operational KPIs and reliability metrics, leveraging data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement.

Observabilit

📌 VP - SRE - Platform Engineering (Pune)
🏢 Jefferies Financial Group
📍 Pune