Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior SRE)

Description

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About the Client:

Join one of Egypt’s premier financial institutions, renowned for its extensive suite of banking services, including Institutional Banking, Personal Banking, and Islamic Banking. With a global presence through over 50 branches and correspondents, we serve a diverse and dynamic clientele. As we embark on a groundbreaking digital transformation journey, we are committed to leveraging the latest technologies to establish a state-of-the-art data architecture that will redefine our performance and service delivery.

Position Overview

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is a technical leadership role responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure for critical banking applications, including Mobile Banking and Internet Banking platforms on on-premise infrastructure. This role leads SRE initiatives, mentors junior engineers, drives continuous improvement in production support, and leads observability strategy using OpenShift, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack on on-premise data center infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

·       Design and architect highly available and scalable OpenShift/Kubernetes infrastructure for banking applications on on-premise servers

·       Lead and implement comprehensive monitoring and observability strategy using Prometheus and Grafana

·       Design and oversee centralized logging infrastructure using ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

·       Lead SRE best practices implementation and adoption of production support standards across teams

·       Mentor and coach junior SRE and DevOps engineers on OpenShift, Kubernetes, monitoring, and production support

·       Define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Objectives (SLOs), and Agreements (SLAs) with measurable metrics

·       Lead incident response strategy, post-incident reviews, and drive continuous improvement in production stability

·       Architect and implement advanced alerting, monitoring dashboards, and visualization strategies using Prometheus and Grafana

·       Design automation frameworks and tools to reduce operational toil and improve production efficiency

·       Lead OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster upgrades, security patches, and infrastructure modernization on-premise

·       Establish production support procedures, on-call rotation policies, and escalation frameworks

·       Optimize system performance, cost, and resource utilization across containerized on-premise infrastructure

·       Conduct capacity planning, performance optimization, and infrastructure scaling initiatives

·       Lead technical architecture reviews and infrastructure design decisions for banking applications

·       Manage on-premise data center resources and infrastructure planning

·       Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation and escalation for critical production incidents

·       Ensure compliance, security hardening, and disaster recovery procedures for financial systems

Qualifications

·       BSc in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field

·       5+ years of hands-on SRE, DevOps, or Production Engineering experience

·       3+ years of experience leading SRE teams or managing production support operations

·       3+ years of hands-on experience managing OpenShift and Kubernetes infrastructure on on-premise infrastructure

·       Expert-level experience with Prometheus for monitoring and alerting in production

·       Expert-level experience with Grafana for creating comprehensive monitoring dashboards

·       Advanced experience with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for logging and log analysis

·       Proven experience designing and scaling production systems for high-traffic banking applications

·       Deep expertise in Linux/Unix system administration and container networking

·       Advanced knowledge of CI/CD automation and deployment strategies

·       Hands-on experience with database management, tuning, and optimization on-premises

·       Strong experience with infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code

·       Proven 24/7 production support experience in mission-critical environments

·       Experience managing on-premise data center infrastructure

·       Proven leadership skills and ability to mentor junior engineers

·       Excellent communication skills and ability to present to executive stakeholders

·       Experience in financial services or banking sector is highly preferred