Principal DevOps & SRE Engineer
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Greetings, We have an immediate vacancy for Principal DevOps & SRE Engineer with over 10 years of experience at Synechron in Abu Dhabi.
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Greetings,
We have an immediate vacancy for Principal DevOps & SRE Engineer with over 10 years of experience at Synechron in Abu Dhabi.
About Company
Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility.
With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering.
Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets.
Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence.
For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.
Synechron: Technology and AI Consulting for Business
Synechron is an innovative global consulting firm delivering industry-leading digital solutions to transform and empower businesses.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Synechron’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program, Same Difference, was developed because we believe in a culture of listening, respect, and opportunity.
We each bring unique backgrounds, thoughts, talents, and experiences with us to work every day, and we know that by embracing them, we are creating an even greater Synechron.
The best way to build a strong team is to value individual differences.
So, it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you’ve had to do to get here – if you have the skills, enthusiasm, and drive to make your mark, we’ll support you like we support each other.
Choose a career with us and let’s pursue innovation, together.
Job Descriptions
Domain: Wholesale Banking (Payments, Cash Management, Channels, APIs).
Role Purpose
The Principal DevOps & SRE Engineer is responsible for owning end-to-end release and reliability engineering across Non-Production and Production environments within the Wholesale Banking domain.
The role focuses on secure, predictable, and resilient releases by combining DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and AI/AIOps practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end release management across DEV, SIT, UAT, CERT, and PROD environments.
- Define and govern release calendars, versioning strategies, go/no-go criteria, rollback plans, and post-release validation.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines with embedded security, quality, and compliance controls.
- Drive infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for cloud and hybrid environments.
- Implement SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and blameless postmortems.
- Lead observability strategy using ELK stack for centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis.
- Apply AI/AIOps capabilities for anomaly detection, alert noise reduction, predictive monitoring, and automated RCA.
- Ensure audit readiness, compliance, and traceability across the SDLC.
- Act as technical authority and mentor for DevOps, SRE, and platform engineers.
• Required Skills & Experience
- 8–12+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Release Engineering roles.
- Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
- Deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and zero-downtime deployment strategies.
- Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, ARM, or equivalent).
- Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, incident management).
- Hands-on expertise with ELK / Elastic Stack for observability.
- Experience applying AI/AIOps techniques in IT operations.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Shell).
- Experience in regulated environments, preferably Wholesale or Corporate Banking.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with Payments, Cash Management, H2H integrations, or API platforms.
- Exposure to DevSecOps tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid architectures.
- Familiarity with DORA metrics and engineering productivity measurement.
Key Competencies
- Strong ownership mindset and accountability for production reliability.
- Excellent stakeholder communication and cross-team orchestration.
- Data-driven decision-making using engineering and reliability metrics.
- Ability to operate under pressure during releases and incidents.
- Mentorship and technical leadership capabilities.
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