SRE Lead / Performance Engineer

SRE Lead / Performance Engineer (Banking Applications)

Position: SRE Lead / Performance Engineer

Experience: 6 - 10+ years

Domain: Banking & Financial Services

Location: Bangalore

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead / Performance Engineer with strong experience in banking production systems. The role involves monitoring mission-critical banking applications, conducting issue analysis (application, DB, infra), and providing performance tuning recommendations to ensure stability, scalability, and high availability of core and digital banking platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead production performance monitoring and incident analysis for core and digital banking applications.
• Monitor transaction performance, system health, and SLAs using APM and observability tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, etc.).
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for performance issues, including application slowdowns, DB query bottlenecks, GC pauses, or infrastructure constraints.
• Provide tuning recommendations for:
• Application servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, Kubernetes).
• Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Exadata).
• Messaging systems (MQ, Kafka, ESB).
• Collaborate with development, DBAs, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to implement performance fixes.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and automated monitoring solutions for proactive issue detection.
• Contribute to capacity planning and scalability assessments for high-volume banking workloads (e.g., payments, fund transfers, core banking transactions).
• Simulate and analyze production-like loads to validate performance improvements.
• Document best practices, playbooks, and tuning guidelines for production support teams.
• Lead war-room discussions during high-severity performance incidents and provide quick technical solutions.
• Mentor junior SREs and performance engineers in issue diagnosis and tuning techniques.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6 - 10+ years of experience in SRE / Performance Engineering, with a strong focus on banking and financial services applications.
• Hands-on expertise in monitoring tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, InfluxDB.
• Strong understanding of core and digital banking platforms such as Oracle FLEXCUBE, Finacle, T24, TCS BaNCS, OBDX, Internet/Mobile Banking apps.
• Deep knowledge of application performance troubleshooting (Java/J2EE stack, GC analysis, heap/thread dump analysis).
• Strong SQL skills and database performance tuning (Oracle Exadata, SQL Server, DB2).
• Familiarity with containerized and cloud environments (Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with incident management, RCA, and problem management in production environments.
• Knowledge of capacity planning, resiliency testing, and failover analysis.
• Ability to handle high-pressure production issues and provide quick, effective solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications in APM tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk).
• Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Prior experience with regulatory and compliance-driven banking systems.
• Exposure to chaos engineering and resiliency testing.

How to Apply

Interested candidates can share their updated resumes to:

preeti.hb@yethi.in