- Provide leadership and vision for the cloud infrastructure team, ensuring a high level of performance and collaboration.
- Recruit, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of DevOps and SRE professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation.
- Ensure the availability, reliability, and scalability of IT systems.
- Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of the digital banking cloud infrastructure, including servers, networks, and storage.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and solutions that align with the organization’s needs and goals. Design and implement scalable developer tooling to accommodate the growth of engineering teams.
- Oversee the implementation and optimization of CI/CD pipelines to enhance the efficiency of software development and deployment processes.
- Manage and optimize data storage, ensuring data integrity and compliance with regulatory standards.
- Develop and enforce security policies and procedures to safeguard sensitive information and ensure compliance with industry regulations.
- Stay abreast of emerging cybersecurity threats and technologies to implement proactive measures.
- Foster collaboration between development, operations, and security teams to ensure a seamless and secure software delivery lifecycle.
- Deeply understand the business and manage the high availability of financial services, continuously improving the business SLA.
- Identify system weaknesses through comprehensive data operations (availability metrics, historical incidents, resource utilization) and implement improvement projects.
- Respond promptly to production faults, coordinating with development, operation, maintenance, and product teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
- Responsible for fault response time and MTTR.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Extensive experience in a leadership role focused on DevOps and SRE within the financial services or banking industry.
- In-depth knowledge of DevOps principles, practices, and tools, including CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automation.
- Strong understanding of SRE methodologies, including monitoring, incident response, and reliability engineering.
- Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing cloud infrastructure strategies.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS).
- Solid knowledge and experience with IAAS and PAAS technology stacks.
- Familiarity with basic network principles, TCP/UDP networks, HTTP, Socket, CDN, and other technologies.
- Skilled in middleware/databases such as Redis, Kafka, MySQL, Elasticsearch.
- Proficient in Docker/K8s container platforms and related underlying technologies and principles.
- Deep understanding of internet technology architecture, network communication protocols, application servers, load balancing, and microservices architecture.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.