SRE

Job Summary
Synechron is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance the stability, resilience, and operational maturity of our critical Financial Crime and Transaction Monitoring platforms. This role is vital in embedding SRE best practices across observability, automation, incident management, and production support. The successful candidate will be responsible for proactively managing service health, reducing operational risks, and supporting regulatory-critical services, thereby enabling the organization to deliver reliable, scalable, and compliant solutions aligned with business objectives.

Software Requirements

• Required:
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience managing production-grade systems with high reliability and availability requirements
• Expertise in SRE principles, monitoring, logging, alerting, and defining SLOs/SLA tuning
• Proficiency with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, and CloudWatch (latest versions or equivalents)
• Linux system administration and troubleshooting skills for enterprise environments
• Experience with Oracle databases, including performance tuning, RAC, or RMAN in large data environments
• Automation scripting skills using Python and Shell (Bash/sh) for operational automation
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, and PagerDuty
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline
• Preferred:
• Knowledge of OFSAA, Oracle Rules Engine, or ML-enabled platform support (e.g., TRACE)
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform
• Experience with support for high-performance Oracle environments (performance tuning, RAC, RMAN)
• Exposure to cloud-native and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker)

Overall Responsibilities

• Improve the reliability, availability, and recoverability of Financial Crime and Transaction Monitoring platforms.
• Define, monitor, and manage SLIs/SLOs to proactively ensure service health and detect anomalies.
• Provide Level 1 and Level 2 support for AWS and Oracle-based platforms, handling incident resolution and root cause analysis.
• Build and sustain automation solutions for monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational workflows to reduce manual toil.
• Lead incident response activities, conduct post-incident reviews, and implement preventative measures.
• Develop, operate, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation across environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable, resilient, and secure systems; participate in capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Support deployment, patching, and configuration changes, ensuring compliance with policies and standards.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of operational procedures, configurations, and incident resolutions.
• Lead continuous process improvements to enhance system reliability, operational efficiency, and compliance adherence.

Technical Skills (By Category)

• Systems & Support (Essential):
• Enterprise-level system operation and support for AWS and Oracle environments
• Linux system administration and troubleshooting
• Incident management and escalation procedures
• Monitoring & Automation (Essential):
• Monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch
• Automation scripting with Python and Shell for operational tasks and event handling
• Cloud & Infrastructure (Preferred):
• Cloud deployment, scaling, and management (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Databases/Data Management (Essential):
• Oracle database management, performance tuning, and recovery
• Data extraction and validation for high-volume transactional data
• Development Tools & Methodologies (Essential):
• Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline for CI/CD pipelines
• Version control with Git

Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 8+ years supporting high-availability, mission-critical enterprise systems, particularly in financial services or comparable regulated environments.
• Proven experience supporting Oracle databases, Oracle RAC, or RMAN in a high-volume context.
• Strong background in enterprise support for Financial Crime and Transaction Monitoring platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead operational support teams, manage incident escalations, and implement automation solutions.
• Experience in cloud-native architecture, infrastructure automation, and observability tools.
• Support experience working under regulatory and audit constraints is preferred.