Senior Technical Specialist
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Job Description
Senior Technical Specialist
Hyderabad, Telangana

Job Summary

Skill / Category Mandatory / Non-Mandatory Evaluation Focus Rationale
Kafka & Confluent Platform Administ Mandatory Broker management, topic design, partitioning, replication, consumer groups, ACLs, security, certificates, cluster operations Core technology ownership for the role.
Kafka Scalability, Performance & Disaster Recovery Mandatory Capacity planning, performance tuning, replication strategies, cluster linking, upgrades, resilience, DR testing Critical for maintaining business-critical Kafka services.
Event-Driven Architecture & Integration Patterns Mandatory Event design, messaging patterns, consumer onboarding, schema discipline, integration controls, asynchronous architectures Fundamental to the Core Banking integration ecosystem.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence Mandatory End-to-end integration support, operational ownership, production readiness, service health management
Reliability engineering, incident reduction, automation, operational readiness, service improvement initiatives
Logging, alerting, dashboards, tracing, incident response, root cause analysis, problem management
Operational management of cloud-native workloads within regulated environments
Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry & Advanced Observability		 Directly aligned to the role's integration support responsibilities.
Core expectation of the role.
Essential for proactive platform support and reliability.
Ensures service reliability in production.
Kubernetes (GKE) Operations & Troubleshooting Mandatory Deployments, networking, container platform operations, troubleshooting and production support Required to support cloud-native services running on GKE.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Platform Automation Mandatory Infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, automation, platform consistency Supports scalability and operational efficiency.
CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation Mandatory Build pipelines, deployment automation, release governance and platform delivery practices
Cloud Security, Identity & Network Architecture		 Required to support rapid and reliable deployments.
Resilience Engineering, Capacity Planning & Recovery Management Mandatory Capacity forecasting, resilience testing, DR planning, recovery procedures and business continuity Critical for highly available banking platforms.
Cross-Functional Engineering & Supplier Collaboration Mandatory Working across SRE, engineering, suppliers and platform teams to improve service ownership Required to drive operational maturity and integration outcomes.
Core Banking Platform & Banking Domain Knowledge Preferred Understanding of banking integrations, payment flows and regulated environments Adds domain context and accelerates onboarding.
TM  Vault Integration & Operations Preferred Knowledge of Vault integration patterns, event flows and platform operations Directly relevant to the target environment.
Apigee API Management & Enterprise API Integration Preferred API gateway management, security policies and integration governance Supports broader integration architecture.
Istio Service Mesh & Service Communication Architecture Preferred Traffic management, security controls, observability and service-to-service communication Enhances platform reliability and operational visibility.
  Preferred Distributed tracing, telemetry collection, performance monitoring and operational analytics Improves troubleshooting and system insights.
AlloyDB/PostgreSQL & Cloud Database Operations Preferred Database availability, monitoring, backup, recovery and performance management Useful for supporting dependent platform services.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence Preferred SRE Metrics, SLIs, SLOs & Error Budgets  

 

Key Responsibilities

Skill / Category Mandatory / Non-Mandatory Evaluation Focus Rationale
Kafka & Confluent Platform Administ Mandatory Broker management, topic design, partitioning, replication, consumer groups, ACLs, security, certificates, cluster operations Core technology ownership for the role.
Kafka Scalability, Performance & Disaster Recovery Mandatory Capacity planning, performance tuning, replication strategies, cluster linking, upgrades, resilience, DR testing Critical for maintaining business-critical Kafka services.
Event-Driven Architecture & Integration Patterns Mandatory Event design, messaging patterns, consumer onboarding, schema discipline, integration controls, asynchronous architectures Fundamental to the Core Banking integration ecosystem.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence Mandatory End-to-end integration support, operational ownership, production readiness, service health management
Reliability engineering, incident reduction, automation, operational readiness, service improvement initiatives
Logging, alerting, dashboards, tracing, incident response, root cause analysis, problem management
Operational management of cloud-native workloads within regulated environments
Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry & Advanced Observability		 Directly aligned to the role's integration support responsibilities.
Core expectation of the role.
Essential for proactive platform support and reliability.
Ensures service reliability in production.
Kubernetes (GKE) Operations & Troubleshooting Mandatory Deployments, networking, container platform operations, troubleshooting and production support Required to support cloud-native services running on GKE.
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Platform Automation Mandatory Infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, automation, platform consistency Supports scalability and operational efficiency.
CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation Mandatory Build pipelines, deployment automation, release governance and platform delivery practices
Cloud Security, Identity & Network Architecture		 Required to support rapid and reliable deployments.
Resilience Engineering, Capacity Planning & Recovery Management Mandatory Capacity forecasting, resilience testing, DR planning, recovery procedures and business continuity Critical for highly available banking platforms.
Cross-Functional Engineering & Supplier Collaboration Mandatory Working across SRE, engineering, suppliers and platform teams to improve service ownership Required to drive operational maturity and integration outcomes.
Core Banking Platform & Banking Domain Knowledge Preferred Understanding of banking integrations, payment flows and regulated environments Adds domain context and accelerates onboarding.
TM  Vault Integration & Operations Preferred Knowledge of Vault integration patterns, event flows and platform operations Directly relevant to the target environment.
Apigee API Management & Enterprise API Integration Preferred API gateway management, security policies and integration governance Supports broader integration architecture.
Istio Service Mesh & Service Communication Architecture Preferred Traffic management, security controls, observability and service-to-service communication Enhances platform reliability and operational visibility.
  Preferred Distributed tracing, telemetry collection, performance monitoring and operational analytics Improves troubleshooting and system insights.
AlloyDB/PostgreSQL & Cloud Database Operations Preferred Database availability, monitoring, backup, recovery and performance management Useful for supporting dependent platform services.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence Preferred SRE Metrics, SLIs, SLOs & Error Budgets  

 

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