Performance Engineer/SRE Leads_Bangalore

Job Description SRE Lead / Performance Engineer (Banking Applications)

Position: SRE Lead / Performance Engineer

Experience: 6 10+ years

Domain: Banking & Financial Services

Location: Bangalore

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead / Performance Engineer with strong experience in banking production systems. The role involves monitoring mission-critical banking applications, conducting issue analysis (application, DB, infra), and providing performance tuning recommendations to ensure stability, scalability, and high availability of core and digital banking platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead production performance monitoring and incident analysis for core and digital banking applications.


• Monitor transaction performance, system health, and SLAs using APM and observability tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, etc.).


• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) for performance issues, including application slowdowns, DB query bottlenecks, GC pauses, or infrastructure constraints.


• Provide tuning recommendations for:
  
  
  
  • Application servers (WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, JBoss, Kubernetes).
  
  
  • Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Exadata).
  
  
  • Messaging systems (MQ, Kafka, ESB).
  
  
  
  


• Collaborate with development, DBAs, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to implement performance fixes.


• Build dashboards, alerts, and automated monitoring solutions for proactive issue detection.


• Contribute to capacity planning and scalability assessments for high-volume banking workloads (e.g., payments, fund transfers, core banking transactions).


• Simulate and analyze production-like loads to validate performance improvements.


• Document best practices, playbooks, and tuning guidelines for production support teams.


• Lead war-room discussions during high-severity performance incidents and provide quick technical solutions.


• Mentor junior SREs and performance engineers in issue diagnosis and tuning techniques.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6 10+ years of experience in SRE / Performance Engineering, with a strong focus on banking and financial services applications.


• Hands-on expertise in monitoring tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK, InfluxDB.


• Strong understanding of core and digital banking platforms such as Oracle FLEXCUBE, Finacle, T24, TCS BaNCS, OBDX, Internet/Mobile Banking apps.


• Deep knowledge of application performance troubleshooting (Java/J2EE stack, GC analysis, heap/thread dump analysis).


• Strong SQL skills and database performance tuning (Oracle Exadata, SQL Server, DB2).


• Familiarity with containerized and cloud environments (Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, AWS, GCP).


• Experience with incident management, RCA, and problem management in production environments.


• Knowledge of capacity planning, resiliency testing, and failover analysis.


• Ability to handle high-pressure production issues and provide quick, effective solutions.


• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications in APM tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk).


• Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS/GCP).


• Prior experience with regulatory and compliance-driven banking systems.


• Exposure to chaos engineering and resiliency testing.