Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead, VP

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead

Corporate Title: Vice President

Location: Pune, India

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to support the Rates & Credit and broader Fixed Income Currencies businesses. This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our real-time trading platforms. You will apply SRE principles to proactively manage system health, drive operational excellence, and collaborate closely with senior traders, developers, and cross-functional teams to optimize front-to-back workflows.  As a technical leader, you will be responsible for maintaining platform availability, resolving complex issues, and championing automation and observability initiatives. Your ability to lead a team, communicate effectively across business and technology stakeholders, and operate under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment will be critical to success.

What we’ll offer you

As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy,

• Best in class leave policy.
• Gender neutral parental leaves
• 100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
• Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
• Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
• Accident and Term life Insurance
• Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above

Your key responsibilities

• Maintaining overall availability of the trading platform
• Responding to user queries and requests in a timely manner; being a Subject Matter Expert
• Identifying, investigating, and resolving application/infrastructure issues impacting the business; whilst ensuring communication updates provided at regular intervals
• Ensuring internal postmortems include strategic follow-ups, in a bid to reduce repeat occurrences of issues & incidents
• Identifying and implementing potential automation opportunities such as self-healing scripts to reduce manual tasks, increase efficiency, and improve resiliency
• Conducting Start of Week/Day checks, observing and acting on monitoring alerts, and keeping oversight of high-profile technology processes, particularly those relating to exchange obligations
• Acting as the gatekeeper to production; critically reviewing all changes prior to deployments and conducting post-change validation checks (may include some Out of Hours activities)
• Working closely with Project Managers, Functional Business Analysts, and Developers to introduce new functionality and enhancements to the trading platform
• Setting up new & maintaining existing Monitoring environments; strong focus on observability for early issue detection of latency, capacity, etc
• Participating in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan exercises (may include some Out of Hours activities)
• Active participation in local, regional, and global process improvement initiatives
• Engagement in wider Technology forums, ie Engineering Days, Hackathons, Data Science events, etc

Your skills and experience

• A bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
• 10yrs+ industry experience, predominantly within the Front Office Application Support domain
• Prior leadership experience essential; managing teams of 5+
• Strong technical skills (Unix, SQL, Python, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, Prometheus, etc); previous exposure to programming languages would be advantageous
• Critical thinking mindset, excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced trading environment
• Good understanding of Fixed Income Currencies Businesses such as Rates, Credit & Repo.
• Familiarity across the ITIL framework in Change, Incident, and Problem Management; as well as awareness of Agile concepts across the Software Development Life Cycle.
• Exceptional verbal and written skills, to communicate effectively with business users, technology peers, and senior management alike
• Self-motivated, proactive in nature, and ability to work independently; as well as collaboratively in a global organisation

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career.
• Coaching and support from experts in your team.
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression.
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs.

About us and our teams

Please visit our company website for further information:

https://www.db.com/company/company.htm

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.