Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

About Horizontal: Established since 2003 in the US, Horizontal solves complex challenges across two distinct businesses: Horizontal Digital and Horizontal Talent. We are consistently recognized for being a top workplace and one of the fastest growing private companies. Horizontal Talent specializes in staffing for IT, Digital & Creative and Business & Strategy markets. We have global offices in US, UAE, India, Malaysia and Australia.

About The Role As a Senior SRE, you’ll drive the development and execution of strategies for DevSecOps practices and platform. Your work will ensure seamless collaboration between technology teams, enabling fast and reliable high-quality software delivery.

You’ll work with a team responsible for implementing and managing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, cloud native & micro-services, automation frameworks, and release management processes, ensuring they align with organizational objectives.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of highly available, secure, and scalable banking infrastructure using infrastructure as code (IaC) principles
• Establish and maintain SLOs/SLIs that define our reliability standards and drive accountability across engineering teams
• Serve as an incident commander during critical service disruptions, leading cross-functional response teams with calm expertise
• Build and enhance our observability platform, enabling real-time monitoring of our golden signals (uptime, latency, saturation, error rate)
• Develop automation solutions for incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity
• Drive our DevSecOps platform to enable safe, rapid deployments through CI/CD, GitOps, and self-service capabilities
• Lead FinOps initiatives to bring visibility and drive ownership amongst tech teams to optimize infrastructure utilization while maintaining performance and reliability
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to a culture of operational excellence

What We're Seeking

• Demonstrated experience of at least 5 years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or equivalent roles.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud)
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Deep expertise with infrastructure as code tools (Hashicorp Terraform, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Proven ability to design and implement observability solutions using modern monitoring stacks
• Experience leading incident response and building post-mortem processes
• Strong understanding of Java or any other object-oriented programming language (OOP).
• Strong understanding of containerization & orchestration.
• Experience with messaging systems such as Kafka is an added advantage.
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases is a plus.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical expertise with strategic decision-making.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure.
• A passion for continuous learning, innovation, and professional development.
• High ownership of responsibilities, with a focus on delivering results and meeting deadlines.
• Financial services experience is a plus but not required