Senior Technical Specialist

Job Summary

Skill / Category

Mandatory / Non-Mandatory

Evaluation Focus

Rationale

Kafka & Confluent Platform Administ

Mandatory

Broker management, topic design, partitioning, replication, consumer groups, ACLs, security, certificates, cluster operations

Core technology ownership for the role.

Kafka Scalability, Performance & Disaster Recovery

Mandatory

Capacity planning, performance tuning, replication strategies, cluster linking, upgrades, resilience, DR testing

Critical for maintaining business-critical Kafka services.

Event-Driven Architecture & Integration Patterns

Mandatory

Event design, messaging patterns, consumer onboarding, schema discipline, integration controls, asynchronous architectures

Fundamental to the Core Banking integration ecosystem.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence

Mandatory

End-to-end integration support, operational ownership, production readiness, service health management

Reliability engineering, incident reduction, automation, operational readiness, service improvement initiatives

Logging, alerting, dashboards, tracing, incident response, root cause analysis, problem management

Operational management of cloud-native workloads within regulated environments

Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry & Advanced Observability

Directly aligned to the role's integration support responsibilities.

Core expectation of the role.

Essential for proactive platform support and reliability.

Ensures service reliability in production.

Kubernetes (GKE) Operations & Troubleshooting

Mandatory

Deployments, networking, container platform operations, troubleshooting and production support

Required to support cloud-native services running on GKE.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Platform Automation

Mandatory

Infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, automation, platform consistency

Supports scalability and operational efficiency.

CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation

Mandatory

Build pipelines, deployment automation, release governance and platform delivery practices

Cloud Security, Identity & Network Architecture

Required to support rapid and reliable deployments.

Resilience Engineering, Capacity Planning & Recovery Management

Mandatory

Capacity forecasting, resilience testing, DR planning, recovery procedures and business continuity

Critical for highly available banking platforms.

Cross-Functional Engineering & Supplier Collaboration

Mandatory

Working across SRE, engineering, suppliers and platform teams to improve service ownership

Required to drive operational maturity and integration outcomes.

Core Banking Platform & Banking Domain Knowledge

Preferred

Understanding of banking integrations, payment flows and regulated environments

Adds domain context and accelerates onboarding.

TM Vault Integration & Operations

Preferred

Knowledge of Vault integration patterns, event flows and platform operations

Directly relevant to the target environment.

Apigee API Management & Enterprise API Integration

Preferred

API gateway management, security policies and integration governance

Supports broader integration architecture.

Istio Service Mesh & Service Communication Architecture

Preferred

Traffic management, security controls, observability and service-to-service communication

Enhances platform reliability and operational visibility.

Preferred

Distributed tracing, telemetry collection, performance monitoring and operational analytics

Improves troubleshooting and system insights.

AlloyDB/PostgreSQL & Cloud Database Operations

Preferred

Database availability, monitoring, backup, recovery and performance management

Useful for supporting dependent platform services.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence

Preferred

SRE Metrics, SLIs, SLOs & Error Budgets

Key Responsibilities

Skill / Category

Mandatory / Non-Mandatory

Evaluation Focus

Rationale

Kafka & Confluent Platform Administ

Mandatory

Broker management, topic design, partitioning, replication, consumer groups, ACLs, security, certificates, cluster operations

Core technology ownership for the role.

Kafka Scalability, Performance & Disaster Recovery

Mandatory

Capacity planning, performance tuning, replication strategies, cluster linking, upgrades, resilience, DR testing

Critical for maintaining business-critical Kafka services.

Event-Driven Architecture & Integration Patterns

Mandatory

Event design, messaging patterns, consumer onboarding, schema discipline, integration controls, asynchronous architectures

Fundamental to the Core Banking integration ecosystem.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence

Mandatory

End-to-end integration support, operational ownership, production readiness, service health management

Reliability engineering, incident reduction, automation, operational readiness, service improvement initiatives

Logging, alerting, dashboards, tracing, incident response, root cause analysis, problem management

Operational management of cloud-native workloads within regulated environments

Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry & Advanced Observability

Directly aligned to the role's integration support responsibilities.

Core expectation of the role.

Essential for proactive platform support and reliability.

Ensures service reliability in production.

Kubernetes (GKE) Operations & Troubleshooting

Mandatory

Deployments, networking, container platform operations, troubleshooting and production support

Required to support cloud-native services running on GKE.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) & Platform Automation

Mandatory

Infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, automation, platform consistency

Supports scalability and operational efficiency.

CI/CD Engineering & Release Automation

Mandatory

Build pipelines, deployment automation, release governance and platform delivery practices

Cloud Security, Identity & Network Architecture

Required to support rapid and reliable deployments.

Resilience Engineering, Capacity Planning & Recovery Management

Mandatory

Capacity forecasting, resilience testing, DR planning, recovery procedures and business continuity

Critical for highly available banking platforms.

Cross-Functional Engineering & Supplier Collaboration

Mandatory

Working across SRE, engineering, suppliers and platform teams to improve service ownership

Required to drive operational maturity and integration outcomes.

Core Banking Platform & Banking Domain Knowledge

Preferred

Understanding of banking integrations, payment flows and regulated environments

Adds domain context and accelerates onboarding.

TM Vault Integration & Operations

Preferred

Knowledge of Vault integration patterns, event flows and platform operations

Directly relevant to the target environment.

Apigee API Management & Enterprise API Integration

Preferred

API gateway management, security policies and integration governance

Supports broader integration architecture.

Istio Service Mesh & Service Communication Architecture

Preferred

Traffic management, security controls, observability and service-to-service communication

Enhances platform reliability and operational visibility.

Preferred

Distributed tracing, telemetry collection, performance monitoring and operational analytics

Improves troubleshooting and system insights.

AlloyDB/PostgreSQL & Cloud Database Operations

Preferred

Database availability, monitoring, backup, recovery and performance management

Useful for supporting dependent platform services.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence

Preferred

SRE Metrics, SLIs, SLOs & Error Budgets

Skill Requirements

Other Requirements