Site Reliability Engineer

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The Job

What do we do?

As a pioneer for digital transformation GFT develops sustainable solutions across new technologies - from cloud engineering and artificial intelligence to blockchain/DLT. With its deep technological expertise, strong partnerships, and comprehensive market know-how GFT offers advice to the financial and insurance sectors, as well as in the manufacturing industry. Through the intelligent use of IT solutions GFT increases productivity and creates added value for clients. Companies gain easy and safe access to scalable IT-applications and innovative business models.

Who are we?

Having started in Germany in 1987, GFT Technologies has grown to become a trusted Software Engineering and Consulting specialist for the international financial industry, counting many of the world's largest and best-known Banks as our clients. We are an organization that empowers you to not only explore but raise your potential and seek out opportunities that add value. At GFT, diversity, equality, and inclusion are at the core of who we are. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive working environment for all communities is one of the main pillars of our diversity strategy, based on our core values and culture. We have been certified for 2022/23 as a 'Great place to work' in the APAC region. So, if you want to have the opportunity to work with an outstanding and progressive organization this position could be right for you.

As a Senior SRE Engineer in the DF squad, you will be responsible for the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of the data platform, focusing on key areas such as database management, data processing tools, ETL frameworks, and AWS-hosted applications. Your key duties will include:

• Deploying and maintaining batch and stream jobs on ETL frameworks, metadata management tools, BI platforms, and other data solutions.
• Collaborating with the Data Platform Software Engineers and Infrastructure/Platform squads to maintain the overall MS1 infrastructure.
• Ensuring smooth operations of cloud-based and on-premise data services, guaranteeing scalability, high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR), and adherence to Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

Key Responsibilities

• Administering AWS resources including IAM, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, and CloudWatch, ensuring compliance with security best practices.
• Managing and deploying containerized applications/services, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes operations.
• Using Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Scalr) to automate infrastructure deployment and configuration.
• Proficiently configuring and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, with experience in ArgoCD considered a plus.
• Designing and maintaining robust cloud architecture with a strong understanding of cloud security, SSO, and authentication mechanisms (Auth0, AzureAD, Okta, SAML/OIDC, OAuth).

Your Skills and Experience

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience as an SRE Engineer, with exposure to data platform solutions being an advantage.
• Extensive experience with AWS, including IAM, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• Expertise in deploying and managing containerized services, especially on Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools like Terraform or Scalr.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, with a focus on maintaining service SLAs and ensuring high availability.
• Experience with cloud security practices, SSO solutions, and authentication protocols (e.g., Auth0, SAML/OIDC, OAuth).
• Familiarity with deploying and maintaining data processing frameworks and ML platforms such as Airflow, Airbyte, Superset, Metabase, Databricks, Snowflake, MLflow, etc., is a strong advantage.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Microsoft Azure.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as ArgoCD.

Why You'll Love Working Here

HR benefits

• Competitive salary
• Salary band per level are reviewed once per year
• 13th month salary pro rata depending on the employee's length of service (within a calender year), paid with the December salary
• Monthly lunch allowance: 700,000 VND/employee
• Parking: GFT covers the monthly parking fee for employee motorbikes
• Performance evaluation is once per year, for 2 purposes:
  > Performance bonus > Salary increments

Health care

• Private health insurance: including accident, outpatient, in-patient, maternity, and dental for all permanent employees who pass 2-month probation.
• Optical: expense claim for eyewear
• Annual health check-ups.

Vacation

• Maximum 18-day vacation leave/year (with the ability to carry over 05 days till 31st March of the following year)
• Adding one more annual leave day for each two-year anniversary.

Healthy lifestyle

• Sports and hobby clubs: company has an annual fund for fitness activities, which is allocated per month as team's vote.
• Range of healthy snacks, tea, coffee, milk and beer on tap

Social

• Company townhall: each 6 weeks
• CSR activities: as per company's CSR guideline
• Onsite tour/training courses at other GFT offices and client's destination overseas (where applicable).