Specialist Site Reliability Engineer

About the role
We are looking for a Specialist Site Reliability Engineer to join us in Bengaluru. In this role, you will play a key part in shaping the reliability, availability and scalability of our platform. You will apply deep SRE expertise to strengthen operational excellence, build automation, enhance observability and ensure our systems run safely and efficiently at scale. You will also help define the future of SRE at EquiLend as we continue to extend the maturity of this capability across our technology landscape.

What you’ll do 

• Build and maintain the reliability, availability and performance of the Spire platform through application of SRE principles and software engineering practices.
• Establish and embed operational standards, governance models and reliability processes across engineering and operations teams.
• Design, implement and optimise observability capabilities including metrics, logs, traces and alerting to proactively identify risks and performance constraints.
• Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs and SLAs for critical platform services and ensure alignment across engineering and product teams.
• Lead capacity planning activities including utilisation analysis, performance modelling and forecasting to support platform growth.
• Develop automation for deployments, infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, testing and operational workflows to reduce manual effort and increase consistency.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling and structured release processes to support safe and reliable delivery.
• Conduct root cause analysis for production incidents, identify systemic issues and deliver long-term preventative actions.
• Drive performance optimisation initiatives by analysing system behaviour, identifying bottlenecks and implementing effective remediation.
• Strengthen operational readiness by reviewing proposed changes, assessing reliability impact and establishing safeguards for high-risk deployments.
• Develop runbooks, architectural artefacts and operational documentation to support safe and consistent operations.
• Collaborate with engineering, product and operations stakeholders to align reliability requirements with business priorities and support post-incident reviews.
• Contribute to the continued development of SRE capabilities within the organisation as the function evolves. 

What we’re looking for 

• 8+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering or software engineering within complex, high-availability environments.
• Experience within the financial services domain (experience within Capital Markets or Securities Finance is nice to have)
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, container orchestration and distributed systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python or Go for automation and system optimisation.
• Experience building observability capabilities using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog or similar platforms.
• Demonstrated capability in capacity planning, scalability modelling and system performance analysis.
• Strong background in incident response, structured root-cause analysis and preventative remediation.
• Experience supporting large-scale systems within financial services or similarly regulated and high-throughput environments.
• Understanding of security, compliance and resilience principles relevant to financial technology platforms.
• Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• A proactive mindset with the ability to anticipate risks and implement forward-looking operational improvements. 

Benefits 

• Variable Pay: Annual performance related variable pay award on top of your fixed CTC to reward your performance and contributions to the company’s success.
• Hybrid Working: Enjoy the flexibility of working remotely for up to 100 days each year.
• Generous Vacation Days Per Year: Take advantage of paid vacation days annually, plus public bank holidays.
• Family Health Insurance Coverage: Comprehensive health insurance coverage for you and your dependents available from your first day.
• Personal Accidental Injury Insurance: Feel secure with personal accidental injury insurance provided from the start of your employment.
• Annual Team Building Retreat: Participate in an annual team-building retreat at a new and exciting location each year
• Relocation Assistance: If you’re relocating from more than 40 miles away, we provide hotel accommodation and travel ticket reimbursement to help ensure a smooth transition.