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We are seeking a highly technical and driven Production SRE Engineer to manage and monitor mission-critical payment platforms including UPI, IMPS, and Payment Hub systems & various Payment Applications .
The role focuses on ensuring high availability, low latency, and seamless transaction experience for customers. The incumbent will collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Business, Compliance) and external regulators ( RBI, NPCI ) to maintain resilient and scalable payment infrastructure.
We are seeking a highly technical and driven Production SRE Engineer to manage and monitor mission-critical payment platforms including UPI, IMPS, and Payment Hub systems & various Payment Applications .
The role focuses on ensuring high availability, low latency, and seamless transaction experience for customers. The incumbent will collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Business, Compliance) and external regulators ( RBI, NPCI ) to maintain resilient and scalable payment infrastructure.
Provide L2/L3 production support for UPI, IMPS, and Payment Hub platforms & various Payment Applications .
Diagnose, triage, and resolve transaction failures, timeouts, and API disruptions .
Lead and participate in Major Incident Management (MIM) calls and ensure timely stakeholder communication.
Manage incidents, service requests, and problem tickets via Jira, ServiceNow .
Provide regular updates to internal stakeholders and regulatory bodies (NPCI/RBI) during critical issues.
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Perform deep-dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for recurring payment and system issues.
Implement preventive and corrective measures to improve system stability.
Drive SRE best practices including error budgets, SLIs/SLOs, and system resilience.
Experience in managing DR Drills & Documentations.
Reviewing the SOPs & its relative documentations.
Monitor key performance indicators: Transaction success rates Latency and response times Failure trends and retries
Transaction success rates
Latency and response times
Failure trends and retries
Build and maintain dashboards using: ELK Stack, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus
ELK Stack, Grafana, Kibana, Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus
Establish proactive alerting and anomaly detection mechanisms.
Work closely with engineering teams to design and optimize: High-throughput payment switches Routing logic Settlement and reconciliation systems
High-throughput payment switches
Routing logic
Settlement and reconciliation systems
Understand and support UPI architecture, IMPS rails, and payment orchestration layers & various Payment Applications .
Trace end-to-end transaction lifecycle across distributed systems.
Coordinate with NPCI, partner banks, and TPAPs during outages, reconciliation issues, or network disruptions.
Lead integrations and ensure seamless onboarding of ecosystem participants.
Ensure compliance with: RBI guidelines and data localization mandates NPCI operational and technical standards
RBI guidelines and data localization mandates
NPCI operational and technical standards
Strong expertise in: UPI architecture and flows IMPS rails Payment gateway / switch systems Payment Hub orchestration & various Payment Applications.
UPI architecture and flows
IMPS rails
Payment gateway / switch systems
Payment Hub orchestration & various Payment Applications.
Hands-on expertise with: ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Grafana, Prometheus Splunk, Datadog
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
Grafana, Prometheus
Splunk, Datadog
Experience with: CI/CD pipelines, Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
CI/CD pipelines, Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Cloud platforms: AWS / GCP / Azure
AWS / GCP / Azure
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
High ownership in production environments
Ability to work under pressure in real-time systems
Strong stakeholder communication and coordination
Focus on reliability, scalability, and performance
Must have can do, takes initiative, Drives end to end deliverables.
Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with ownership to resolve production issues under pressure.
Ability to clearly articulate incidents, updates, and RCA to stakeholders, leadership, and regulators.
Works effectively with cross-functional teams (engineering, product, partners, regulators).
Structured thinking to diagnose complex system failures and drive long-term fixes.
Ability to stay calm and effective during high-severity incidents and critical outages.
Knowledge of PCI-DSS compliance, Financial data governance & security best practices
Quickly adapts to changing technologies, incidents, and regulatory requirements in a fast-evolving payments ecosystem.
Precision in analysing logs, transactions, and system behaviour to avoid critical errors in production.
Effectively manage multiple incidents, tasks, and escalations in a high-pressure environment.
Ability to handle expectations and coordinate with internal teams, partners, and regulators efficiently.
Takes ownership to make quick, informed decisions during outages or critical production incidents & communications to various Stake holders including Regulatory.
Diversified Indian financial services conglomerate and private bank.
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