Cloud SRE - Big Data Platform

About Us

At ANZ, we're applying new ways technology and data can be harnessed as we work towards a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

Our community of over 5,000 engineers is key to making this happen, because technology underpins every part of our business - from delivering tools, apps and services for our customers, to building a bank for the future.

About the Role

As a Cloud Big Data SRE in our Cloud Infrastructure Team, you’ll play a key role in hprimarily lead the engineering and operational activities on an enterprise big data platform (EBD) on GCP. The platform is vast with Petabytes of data mostly retail and commercial bank customers which is used for banks critical customer remediation program and is significant in regulatory compliance. Additionally, the role involves providing platform engineering leadership and mentorship within the EDAE team, significantly influencing the direction and success of ANZ's data capabilities on a broad scale.

Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours.

Role Type:Permanent
Role Location:Bengaluru

What will your day look like?

Lead SRE principles adoption in squad through monitoring of reliability of platform and applications, automate operations.
Ensure services meet defined uptime, performance and latency targets.
Solving ambiguous and complex data platform engineering problems.
Work collaboratively within and across teams, Tech Areas and Domains.
Utilise tools and practices to maintain, verify and deploy solutions in the most efficient ways, we place a high emphasis on Software Fundamentals.
Implements a culture within the Tribe and the Chapter, encouraging best practices around reviews, quality, and documentation.
Provide ongoing support for platforms as required e.g. problem and incident management troubleshoot.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

Experienced in managing enterprise-scale big data lake platforms on cloud, with a strong focus on platform engineering, service hosting, and dependency management across distributed systems.
Specialize in SRE practices including reliability engineering, observability implementation, proactive monitoring, and incident response operations to ensure platform stability and operational excellence.
Proven experience in devops, automation, manage and version codebases , configurations and infrastructure automation using Terraform.
Proficiency in Python, with experience in a secondary language like Golang or Java.
6+ years of experience as a Cloud SRE/Engineer (preferably GCP) with applications utilizing services such as:

Big Data Ecosystem: Hadoop cluster and technologies like Spark, Hive, and HBase deployed on cloud platforms
Workflow Orchestration: Airflow (or equivalent managed services) for job scheduling and pipeline orchestration
Containerization & Orchestration: Kubernetes for scalable deployment and orchestration of containerized workloads
Observability: Centralized logging and metrics-based monitoring using cloud-native or open-source solutions
Cloud Object Storage: Scalable storage solutions such as GCS, S3, or Azure Blob Storage
Distributed SQL Stores: Managed relational databases like Cloud SQL, Amazon RDS, or Azure SQL
Identity & Access Management: Role-based access control and policy enforcement via IAM across cloud environments

You’re not expected to have 100% of these skills. At ANZ a growth mindset is at the heart of our culture, so if you have most of these things in your toolbox, we’d love to hear from you.

So why join us?

ANZ is a place where big things happen as we work together to provide banking and financial services across more than 30 markets. With more than 7,500 people, our Bengaluru team is the bank's largest technology, data and operations centre outside Australia. In operation for over 33 years, the centre is critical in delivering the bank's strategy and making an impact for our millions of customers around the world. Our Bengaluru team not only drives the transformation initiatives of the bank, it also drives a culture that makes ANZ a great place to be. We're proud that people feel they can be themselves at ANZ and 90 percent of our people feel they belong.

We know our people need different things to be great in their role, so we offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid work (where the role allows it). Our people also enjoy a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services.

We want to continue building a diverse workplace and welcome applications from everyone. Please talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirements, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.com/careers/. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 98658