DevOps SRE Engineer - Observability & Automation -Bank

Dev Ops SRE Engineer - Observability & Automation - Bank

Urgent requirement for Dev Ops SRE Engineer - Observability & Automation is required for our banking clients in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

We’re looking for a talented Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to keep our systems running smoothly, reliably, and ough smart automation
, deep observability
, and a calm head in a crisis, you’ll help us balance speed
, compliance
, and stability
, working alongside Dev Ops
, Cloud
, Quality Engineering
, and Product teams to drive continuous improvements in performance
, security
, and resilience
.

• Define and implement SLIs / SLOs and error budgets for business-critical digital banking services.
• Build actionable observability (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts) using Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK, while reducing alert fatigue.
• Leverage AI-driven insights and anomaly detection (Dynatrace Davis AI or equivalent AIOps platform) to proactively predict and resolve reliability issues before impact.
• Lead incident management — from on-call triage and root-cause analysis to blameless postmortems with actionable follow-ups.
• Improve deployment safety with robust rollout / rollback strategies, canary and blue-green deployments, and production readiness reviews.
• Support and optimize microservices-based architectures, ensuring service reliability, scalability, and inter-service resilience.
• Conduct capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience testing, optimizing for both reliability and cost efficiency.
• Automate operational toil — from runbooks and remediation scripts to proactive health checks and self-healing workflows.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops to embed reliability gates and validations into CI / CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI / CD or Azure Dev Ops).
• Own and evolve the observability and AIOps stack, driving intelligent automation and predictive alerting capabilities.
• Maintain high-quality documentation, playbooks, and operational standards across environments.
• Ensure operational compliance and security alignment with internal controls and regulatory standards.
• Analyze system performance, availability, and cost data to continually optimize operations.
• Provide reliability support and escalation guidance for critical production systems during major incidents.

• 5+ years of experience in SRE or Dev Ops roles, building and managing large-scale, high-availability systems across banking, fintech, e-commerce, or other data-intensive digital ecosystems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical experience.
• Strong experience with Linux environments and performance troubleshooting.
• Proven expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes and container orchestration in microservices environments.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (preferred); exposure to Azure or GCP is an advantage.
• Deep knowledge of Dynatrace (AIOps, Davis AI), Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.
• Experience implementing AI / ML-driven reliability or automation solutions (AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive alerting).
• Practical understanding of CI / CD pipelines (Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI / CD or Azure Dev Ops).
• Experience with Kafka, Rabbit
  
  MQ, Redis, Aurora, and RDS databases.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, Bash, or Go.

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Contract
• Job function:
  Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries:
  Technology, Information and Internet

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