Site Reliability Engineering Senior Lead

Position Type :

Full time

Type Of Hire :

Experienced (relevant combo of work and education)

Job Description

Site Reliability Engineering Senior Lead - 10+ Yrs - UK Shift - Pune Location

About The Role

We are hiring a Senior Lead Site Reliability Engineer to define, build, and operate always-on, low-latency, and highly secure payment platforms that power large-scale financial transactions.

This is a senior technical role, not a pure operations position. You will operate at the intersection of distributed systems engineering, cloud platforms, and reliability architecture, setting technical direction and driving reliability outcomes across mission-critical, regulated systems in Payments and FinTech.

You will work across multiple teams and domains, influencing architecture, engineering practices, and operational maturity while remaining hands-on with the most complex reliability challenges.

What You Will Do

- Own and drive reliability outcomes at scale for real-time, distributed payment and transaction processing platforms with strict SLAs, SLOs, and regulatory requirements.

- Define reliability architecture and standards across services, platforms, and infrastructure—shaping how systems are designed, deployed, observed, and operated.

- Design and evolve enterprise-grade observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, SLOs/SLIs) that provide actionable insights into system health, customer experience, and business impact.

- Lead and coordinate response to high-severity production incidents, acting as a technical authority during major events and driving deep root-cause analysis and long-term systemic fixes.

- Set strategy and drive adoption of SRE best practices including error budgets, capacity modeling, resilience testing, graceful degradation, and operational readiness.

- Architect automation and self-service platforms that eliminate toil, reduce operational risk, and enable safe, frequent production releases across teams.