Systems Reliability Engineering Senior Manager

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Purpose

Contributes to the success of International Banking by leading the operation of the Monitoring HUB, ensuring that the Level 5 Analyst team executes monitoring, triage, alert handling, handovers, and escalations in accordance with established procedures. The role is responsible for operational coordination, administrative management, team performance, SLA/OLA tracking, financial control, executive reporting, and the continuous improvement of the monitoring model. All activities are carried out in compliance with applicable regulations, internal policies, control culture, operational risk management, security, compliance requirements, and standards of conduct.

Accountabilities

Lead the daily operation of the SRE Analyst Level 5 team, ensuring coverage, prioritization, operational discipline, incident follow-up, and adherence to established playbooks.

Manage shift scheduling, night rotation, extended coverage, backfills, vacations, absences, handovers, and the operational continuity of the monitoring team.

Define and maintain the team’s operational calendar, ensuring workload balance, assignment traceability, and alignment with business needs.

Oversee the monitoring of International Banking applications and services, ensuring that monitoring screens, alerts, dashboards, GEMS, Dynatrace, Grail, logs, and ITSM tools are reviewed according to the operating model.

Ensure alerts, service degradations, and incidents receive timely initial triage, sufficient evidence collection, preliminary classification, appropriate escalation, and follow-up through operational closure or handover.

Coordinate operational priorities with application, infrastructure, incident management, business operations, and SRE Central teams when support, decisions, or remediation fall outside the Level 5 scope.

Escalate opportunities and priorities to SRE Central related to observability, alerting, dashboards, thresholds, operational noise reduction, automation, remediation, playbooks, and regional standardization.

Propose improvements to alerting, dashboards, operational views, event correlation, service health monitoring, detection metrics, and procedures to reduce operational noise and improve MTTD, MTTR, and triage quality.

Govern the quality of shift handovers, operational logs, incident evidence, checklist compliance, and updates to operational documentation.

Manage team performance metrics, including shift coverage, handover compliance, alerts reviewed, incidents triaged, timely escalations, operational backlog, SLA/OLA adherence, documentation quality, and procedural compliance.

Prepare executive and operational reports on team performance, KPIs, capacity, allocation, costs, risks, alerting trends, recurring issues, and improvement initiatives.

Manage team costs, capacity planning, resource allocation, headcount requirements, productivity, operational budget, and forecasting required to sustain Monitoring HUB coverage.

Oversee administrative activities for the team, including onboarding, training, required access provisioning, knowledge development plans, compliance tracking, operational meetings, process feedback, and coordination of onsite activities. Promote a strong control culture, compliance with procedures, operational risk management, information security, and responsible use of tools and access privileges. Represent the monitoring team in operational forums, service reviews, incident committees, HUB governance meetings, and stakeholder follow-up sessions within International Banking. Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing work environment focused on service excellence, continuous learning, operational reliability, and continuous improvement.

Education / Experience / Other Information

• Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, Technology Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. Equivalent experience in critical IT operations may be considered.
• Strong experience leading teams in operations, monitoring, NOC, SRE, incident management, application support, production support, or high-availability technology services.
• Experience managing shift schedules, coverage models, operational continuity, staffing, capacity planning, resource allocation, cost control, and on-site or hybrid teams.
• Practical knowledge of observability and monitoring tools, including Dynatrace, dashboards, alerts, logs, metrics, traces, GEMS, Grail, ITSM, and comparable platforms.
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