Hybrid Site Reliability Engineer – UNIX bei UBS

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our technology team in a mission-critical financial environment. This role is ideal for someone who has a proven track record of building and operating reliable, scalable systems in regulated industries such as banking or financial services.

As a Senior SRE, you will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of our platforms. You’ll collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to build systems that are secure, observable, and automated, while championing a culture of operational excellence.


Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and fault-tolerant systems in a financial environment.
• Define and monitor Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure system reliability and customer satisfaction.
• Passionately identify, measure, and reduce TOIL, with a proactive approach to eliminating repetitive manual tasks through automation.
• Lead incident response, post-mortems, and root cause analysis for production issues.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability into the software development lifecycle.
• Integrate with observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) to ensure end-to-end visibility of systems and services.

Hyderabad

Full Time

India

Information Technology (IT)

At UBS, we embrace flexible ways of working when the role permits. We offer different working arrangements like part-time, job-sharing and hybrid (office and home) working. Our purpose-led culture and global infrastructure help us connect, collaborate, and work together in agile ways to meet all our business needs.

From gaining new experiences in different roles to acquiring fresh knowledge and skills, we know that great work is never done alone. We know that it's our people, with their unique backgrounds, skills, experience levels and interests, who drive our ongoing success. Together we’re more than ourselves. Ready to be part of #teamUBS and make an impact?

UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.

You’ll be joining the Operating Systems and Middleware (OSM) crew, a globally distributed team that supports critical infrastructure across time zones using a follow-the-sun support model. Based in Pune / Hyderabad, this role is embedded in a collaborative Agile environment where engineers are empowered to take ownership, innovate, and continuously improve.
We value transparency, shared responsibility, and continuous learning. You’ll work alongside talented engineers who are passionate about building reliable systems and solving complex problems.

We’re seeking a seasoned SRE with a strong foundation in reliability engineering and a passion for building robust, scalable systems. The ideal candidate will bring a mix of technical depth, operational maturity, and a proactive mindset.

✅ Essential Experience & Skills
• Proven expertise in Site Reliability Engineering, with a background in software engineering, infrastructure, or operations.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure), operating systems (e.g. Linux RHEL7+ ), and networking fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of networking and storage technologies (e.g. NFS, SAN, NAS).
• Strong working knowledge of authentication and naming services (e.g. DNS, LDAP, Kerberos, Centrify).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Go, Bash).
• Practical experience with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Demonstrated ability to define and manage SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and to systematically reduce TOIL.
• Ability to integrate with observability platforms to ensure system visibility.
• A metrics- and automation-driven mindset, with a strong focus on measurable reliability.
• Calm under pressure, especially during incidents and outages, with a structured approach to incident response and post-mortems.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across engineering and business teams.
• A proactive, ownership-driven attitude, always seeking opportunities to improve systems and processes.
✨ Desirable Additions
• Experience with chaos engineering, resilience testing, or disaster recovery planning.
• Familiarity with financial transaction systems, real-time data pipelines, or core banking platforms.
• An understanding of CI/CD pipelines, containerization (AKS), and orchestration (Kubernetes).

UBS is the world’s largest and the only truly global wealth manager. We operate through four business divisions: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. Our global reach and the breadth of our expertise set us apart from our competitors..

We have a presence in all major financial centers in more than 50 countries.