Vend Tech Group
Site Reliability Engineer (Payments)
Vend Tech GroupUnited Arab Emirates17 hours ago
ContractInformation Technology

Job Title: Payments SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Department: Service Line

Location: Dubai

Reporting to: Test Architect


We’re supporting on the hiring of a Payments SRE to own the stability, performance, and cost optimisation of our Payments Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform. You’ll manage the cloud-hosted Iliad T3 instances for assigned regions, ensuring service availability meets agreed SLA/OLA targets, maintaining operational dashboards, and delivering scheduled upgrades and maintenance to keep the platform secure and resilient.


This role sits at the heart of a managed testing service supporting payments schemes and regional requirements - so strong operational discipline, troubleshooting capability, and clear reporting are key.


Key Responsibilities:

  • Monitor and manage the cloud-hosted Iliad T3 platform for assigned regions
  • Own day-to-day service reliability, including uptime, performance, and capacity planning aligned to SLA/OLAs
  • Build and maintain operational dashboards and reporting packs for agreed reporting cycles
  • Plan and execute scheduled updates to cloud components and Iliad T3 instances to ensure security and version currency
  • Manage incident escalation, reporting, resolution, and validation within agreed SLAs
  • Run scheduled maintenance activities to optimise cost and performance (sizing, tuning, housekeeping)


Skills & Experience:

  • Proven experience operating and supporting cloud services in production environments
  • Strong background managing messaging systems and associated cloud data (monitoring, scaling, performance)
  • Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting to keep services within agreed tolerances
  • Strong understanding of SLA/OLA reporting, incident management, and operational governance
  • Comfortable working with distributed teams and coordinating with technical stakeholders (Engineering, QA, Vendor support)


Qualifications / Certifications (Preferred)

  • Degree preferred (or equivalent experience)
  • AWS and/or Azure certification
  • IBM Cloud Practitioner badge (Bronze or Silver)

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