Lead SRE Coach

Position Title: Lead SRE Coach

Location: Chennai, India

Education Level: IT Engineering Graduate

Experience: 9+ years

Job Description

Direct Responsibilities

• Coaching & Mindset Enablement: Transmit an Agile and SRE-focused mindset. Conduct daily on-the-field coaching and 1-to-1 sessions with SREs to identify operational improvement areas, guide solution implementations, upskill teams, and track SRE practice maturity.
• Training & Upskilling: Design, curate, and lead interactive SRE training courses for SRE practitioners and their managers.
• Recruitment & Assessment: Participate in the global SRE talent acquisition process by administering recruitment assessments, evaluating technical capability, and providing detailed candidate feedback to hiring managers.
• Strategy & Content Co-construction: Collaborate with the transformation team in workshops and brainstorming sessions to co-build the SRE transformation roadmap, support plans, and ongoing training collateral.
• Potential Career Path: Opportunity to evolve into an SRE Lead within a specific Securities Services IT Production domain or step into an SRE Chapter Lead role across Securities Services IT Production.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Partner with other QUEST stream leaders and APS teams to elevate overall platform stability, efficiency, and reliability.

Qualifications & Competencies

Experience & Background

• Total Experience: 10+ years of overall experience in IT.
• SRE Expertise: 3 to 4 years of hands-on experience as an SRE, with a proven track record of driving SRE transformations within operational environments.
• Operational Background: Prior experience in IT Production with an Application Integration focus, or a Software Developer background with deep expertise in production deployment standards.
• Coaching Posture: A strong coaching mindset-believing in the capability of individuals to formulate their own solutions and guiding them through that discovery process.

Technical Skills & Tools

• Core Practices: SRE principles, DevOps, ITIL framework, Application Support, End-to-End IT processes (Dev to Ops).
• Scripting: Python, YAML, Shell.
• Monitoring & Observability: Dynatrace, Nagios.
• Operating Systems & Networking: Linux, Network Administration (DNS, Firewalls, Switches).
• DevOps Tooling: Git & Git Flow, Artifactory, Jenkins or GitLab CI, Ansible Tower, Digital.ai Release.
• Cloud & Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, Argo CD, Vault, Helm.
• IT Production Processes: Incident Management, Release Management, Change Management, Capacity Management, Problem Management.
• Architecture: Enterprise & Technical Architecture fundamentals.

Behavioral & Leadership Skills

• Coaching & Mentorship: Strong ability to listen actively, transmit knowledge effectively (via workshops, documentation/wikis), and drive sustainable organizational change.
• Stakeholder Influence: Proven ability to communicate, collaborate with, and influence diverse stakeholders (operational engineers, managers, IT specialists, support teams).
• Work Style: High autonomy, collaborative teamwork, problem-solving mindset, and comfortable working within a multi-cultural, global team structure.
• Languages: Professional fluency in English (written and spoken).

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