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Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to act as the technical expert (SME) for reliability and DevOps practices across our fintech platform.

This role is a pure individual contributor position where you will remain deeply hands‑on while also guiding, mentoring, influencing, and delegating work within a small SRE team (3 to 6 engineers). You will lead by example through active involvement in automation, production operations, and reliability engineering.

The ideal candidate is highly technical, thrives in high‑availability and transaction‑heavy environments, and is trusted to make sound technical decisions during both day‑to‑day operations and critical incidents.

Responsibilities

Hands‑On Reliability Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain secure, highly available, and scalable infrastructure

• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code, automation scripts, and CI/CD pipelines

• Actively troubleshoot production issues and perform performance tuning

• Participate in and drive improvements to monitoring, observability, and alerting

• Stay fully involved in on‑call and production operations

Technical Decision‑Making and Influence

• Act as the technical authority for SRE and DevOps practices

• Guide architectural and implementation decisions across:

  • Cloud infrastructure (AWS)

  • CI/CD pipelines

  • Observability and automation tooling

• Define and evolve standards, patterns, and best practices

• Make and communicate clear technical decisions during high‑impact situations

Incident Leadership and Reliability Ownership

• Lead response to high‑severity incidents

• Ensure effective use of recovery procedures and runbooks

• Facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) and post‑incident reviews

• Drive implementation of preventive and long‑term reliability improvements

• Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs

Guidance, Mentorship and Delegation

• Mentor and guide other SREs on technical and operational topics

• Delegate tasks and initiatives based on complexity, risk, and expertise

• Influence prioritization aligned with business impact and operational risk

• Promote a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement

Your Profile

• 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering

• Strong track record as a senior technical IC or SME

• Deep hands‑on experience with:

  • AWS cloud platforms

  • Terraform, Chef (or similar IaC tools)

  • CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)

  • Docker and Kubernetes

  • Observability tools (Datadog, ELK, Splunk)

  • Python or Bash scripting

  • Strong SQL skills and workload analysis experience (Aurora PostgreSQL preferred)

• Kafka experience (AWS MSK or Confluent)

• Extensive experience in incident response and on‑call operations

• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, networking, and security

Nice‑to‑Have

• AWS, Kubernetes, or Kafka certifications

• Hybrid or multi‑cloud experience

• Background in high‑transaction or customer‑facing systems

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid: Onsite 4× per month (Makati City)

• Shift Options: 5:00 AM - 2:00 PM or 6:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Manila)

• Workdays: Either Mon – Fri | Tue – Sat | Wed – Sun

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Use of AI in Hiring 

As part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers, and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.