Lead Site Reliability Engineer (FinTech)

Location: Bangalore, India

Company

hirify.global provides large-scale payment and financial technology platforms for mission-critical transactions.

What you will do

• Own reliability outcomes 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.
• Design and evolve observability platforms covering metrics, logs, traces, SLIs, and SLOs.
• Lead high-severity production incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term systemic remediation.
• Drive SRE practices including error budgets, capacity modeling, resilience testing, graceful degradation, and operational readiness.
• Architect automation and self-service platforms, influence cloud migration and disaster recovery strategy, and mentor senior engineers and technical leads.

Requirements

• Deep software engineering experience building and operating large-scale, distributed, API-driven production systems.
• Expertise in observability, alerting, and reliability engineering with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or ELK.
• Strong knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP, infrastructure as code, platform automation, and cloud-native design patterns.
• Experience operating mission-critical systems in payments, fintech, banking, or similarly regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience with Linux/RHEL, Windows, Oracle RDBMS, and complex enterprise stacks.
• Staff-level scope, incident-management leadership, and the ability to align multiple teams and stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Automation and scripting with Python, Bash, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Experience building CI/CD platforms and release automation for high-risk production environments.
• Ownership of reliability strategy or platform initiatives across multiple teams or business units.
• Experience modernizing legacy financial systems into resilient, compliant cloud-native or hybrid architectures.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on high-impact payment platforms operating at massive scale.
• Define reliability strategy for systems where availability, correctness, and security are critical.
• Engineering culture focused on technical leadership, automation, excellence, and continuous learning.