Business Function
Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.
Job Objective
DBS Bank is looking for a Platform SRE Engineer with experience working on enterprise level data engineering, analytics, and observability applications. The SRE engineer would be responsible for ensuring high availability of the platform services and perform continuous improvements to increase the platform’s efficiency and resiliency. The SRE engineer will also perform automation development tasks to remove toil and increase the team’s productivity.
Responsibilities
Implementation and administration experience in Elastic Stack, Confluent Platform (Kafka), Prometheus, Grafana, NGINX & other Open APM tools is a plus
Configuration of Elasticsearch index templates, mappings and comfortable with KQL language
Experience in upgrading Elastic stack, Confluent & other open APM tools versions
Proactively monitor the platform service availability and help fix issues
Automate cluster management / routine tasks, optimize processes, and perform thorough testing to ensure quality.
Set up Monitoring, Alerting, and Metrics reporting; Conduct performance, failover testing and capacity planning
Design, build and maintain data engineering pipelines.
Perform application maintenance, patching and having strong experience in Linux platform and container configurations is a plus.
Collaborating with the Dev Leads to ensure that the dev team’s needs are met through the CI/CD framework, component monitoring and stats, incident escalation etc.
Deliverables
Ensure on-time delivery of tasks and projects.
Ensure continuous uptime of applications and services.
Ensure no security or audit issues.
Job Dimensions
Comply to bank standards to track and follow up on the assigned projects.
Cover all areas in application and infrastructure operations of the platform.
Requirements
You should be a university graduate (computer science or related field) with good experience working with contemporary technologies and scripting languages.
Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management
A passion for learning and using new technologies in the open source communities.
Min 5 years of related experience as an SRE in a large scale organization.
Experience in configuring log shipper agents to forward logs to Kafka and use Logstash to enrich or transform data before sending them to Elasticsearch for indexing.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tool sets like Bitbucket, Jenkins, JIRA.
Working knowledge of Grafana, Prometheus, Nginx, Elastic stack (Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana / Beats) including data ingestion, management, monitoring & analytics. Able to perform L1/L2 ELK related tasks.
In-depth experience in Unix/Linux/Shell/Python scripting.
Knowledgeable and experienced in SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) practices covering monitoring, observability, performance management, automation, and resiliency.
Strong experience in developing code (Python, Shell scripting etc.) with quality, scalability, and extensibility
Experience in writing SOP’s (technical documentation) and familiar with Agile Scrum framework.
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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional 6500advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognizes your achievements.
DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia, with over 280 branches across 18 markets. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, DBS has a growing presence in the three key Asian axes of growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The bank's "AA-" and "Aa1" credit ratings are among the highest in the world.
DBS is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, and has been named “World’s Best Digital Bank” by Euromoney in 2016 and 2018. The bank has also been recognised for its leadership in the region, having been named “Asia’s Best Bank” by several publications including The Banker, Global Finance, IFR Asia and Euromoney since 2012. In addition, the bank has been named “Safest Bank in Asia” by Global Finance for nine consecutive years from 2009 to 2017.
DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking. As a bank born and bred in Asia, DBS understands the intricacies of doing business in the region’s most dynamic markets. DBS is committed to building lasting relationships with customers, and positively impacting communities through supporting social enterprises, as it banks the Asian way. It has also established a SGD 50 million foundation to strengthen its corporate social responsibility efforts in Singapore and across Asia.
With its extensive network of operations in Asia and emphasis on engaging and empowering its staff, DBS presents exciting career opportunities. The bank acknowledges the passion, commitment and can-do spirit in all of its 26,000 staff, representing over 40 nationalities.
DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia, with over 280 branches across 18 markets. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, DBS has a growing presence in the three key Asian axes of growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The bank's "AA-" and "Aa1" credit ratings are among the highest in the world.
DBS is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, and has been named “World’s Best Digital Bank” by Euromoney in 2016 and 2018. The bank has also been recognised for its leadership in the region, having been named “Asia’s Best Bank” by several publications including The Banker, Global Finance, IFR Asia and Euromoney since 2012. In addition, the bank has been named “Safest Bank in Asia” by Global Finance for nine consecutive years from 2009 to 2017.
DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking. As a bank born and bred in Asia, DBS understands the intricacies of doing business in the region’s most dynamic markets. DBS is committed to building lasting relationships with customers, and positively impacting communities through supporting social enterprises, as it banks the Asian way. It has also established a SGD 50 million foundation to strengthen its corporate social responsibility efforts in Singapore and across Asia.
With its extensive network of operations in Asia and emphasis on engaging and empowering its staff, DBS presents exciting career opportunities. The bank acknowledges the passion, commitment and can-do spirit in all of its 26,000 staff, representing over 40 nationalities.
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