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Pune · On-site · 8-11 Yrs · Aug 30
Investment & Asset Management · 1001 to 5000 Employees · New York, US
1 open role0 posted in 7d1 in 30d
Work-life balance 3.0Compensation & benefits 3.8Culture & values 3.5
Jefferies, the global investment banking firm, has served companies and investors for over 50 years. Headquartered in New York, with offices in over 30 cities around the world, the firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage and securities research, as well as wealth and asset management. The firm provides a full range of investment banking services including underwriting, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and recapitalization, and other advisory services across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Jefferies is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jefferies Financial Group (NYSE: JEF), a diversified holding company.
Hiring: Engineering
What employees say
+ Pay is unmatched. 1 bonus was enough to buy a decent car (in addition to the high fixed). I didn't last long enough to get a 2nd one Learning is good
− Toxic culture Horrible work hours (7 days working, 80-90h a week) Extremely unadjusting seniors
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Interview experience · Summer Analyst
Online. Campus recruting. Associate round. 10 minutes on HR questions (tell us about yourself, why ib, why jefferies) 10 minutes on points on your CV, 10 minutes on technicals ( financial statements and how they are impa
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Overview
Innovation Hub Overview
Responsibilities
- Innovation Hub Overview
- Jefferies is creating a Technology Innovation Hub in Pune, a greenfield opportunity to build the systems that power global markets. As our first India technology center, this hub brings together hands on builders who engineer the platforms behind Jefferies’ growth across capital markets, investment banking, and institutional securities. We’re scaling toward an elite team of 500 engineers while maintaining the agility, ownership, and meritocratic spirit that defines Jefferies.
- From cloud and data to AI, risk, and core business technologies, teams in Pune will lead high impact work with a global mandate.
- IT Platform Reliability Engineering & Management The PREM team is responsible for improving the stability, availability, and performance of Jefferies’ core services and systems. The team provides day-to-day support for business-critical platforms across Equities, Fixed Income, Investment Banking, and Corporate functions, and builds tooling to strengthen observability (metrics/logs/dashboards), capacity, and performance management across distributed and cloud environments.
- Vice President, Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE)
- Location: Pune
- We are seeking an experienced Vice President, Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead reliability engineering initiatives across critical front-to-back trading, post-trade, and operations platforms. The role combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic leadership, driving platform stability, operational excellence, observability, automation, and resilience across the technology estate.
- The successful candidate will partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, Architecture, Operations, and Business stakeholders globally to define reliability standards, drive platform modernization, reduce operational risk, and improve service availability.
- Provide technical leadership for platform reliability, stability, scalability, and resilience across business-critical production systems.
- Define and drive the strategic roadmap for Platform Reliability Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
- Establish reliability objectives, service level indicators (SLIs), service level objectives (SLOs), and operational excellence standards across supported platforms.
- Act as a senior escalation point during major incidents, driving resolution, recovery, stakeholder communication, and post-incident reviews.
- Lead root cause analysis initiatives and ensure corrective and preventative actions are implemented effectively.
- Drive reduction of operational toil through automation, self-healing capabilities, and process simplification.
- Establish best practices for incident management, problem management, change management, and release governance.
- Identify reliability risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies to improve platform resilience.
- Define operational KPIs and reliability metrics, leveraging data-driven insights to drive continuous improvement.
- Own and enhance enterprise observability capabilities across applications, infrastructure, middleware, and cloud environments.
- Drive adoption of modern observability frameworks leveraging Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and Jaeger.
- Ensure effective monitoring, alerting, logging, tracing, and capacity planning practices are implemented across platforms.
- Partner with development teams to embed reliability principles throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Lead engineering efforts focused on infrastructure automation, deployment automation, and platform modernization.
- Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, and DevOps best practices.
- Drive automation initiatives using Python, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.
- Collaborate closely with senior technology leaders, application owners, infrastructure teams, cybersecurity teams, and business stakeholders.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to SRE, PRE, DevOps, and Production Support engineers.
- Influence technology strategy and architectural decisions with reliability, scalability, and operational sustainability in mind.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple regions and technology teams.
- Represent Platform Reliability Engineering in governance forums, technology reviews, and operational risk discussions.
- Ensure operational stability and support of platforms that underpin trading, post-trade processing, settlements, risk management, and regulatory reporting.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Production Engineering, or Application Support.
- Proven experience supporting and operating large-scale, mission-critical production platforms.
- Strong programming experience in Python, Go, Java, C#, or similar languages.
- Extensive experience with Linux/Unix environments and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of SRE principles, operational excellence frameworks, and reliability engineering practices.
- Strong understanding of databases, messaging systems, and middleware technologies.
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical problem-solving skills across application, infrastructure, and data layers.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with both technical and business audiences.
Nice to have
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Loki
- Jaeger
- Git
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- Ansible
- Terraform
- CI/CD Frameworks
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- OpenShift
- AWS / Azure / GCP
- Kafka
- Redis
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
- PostgreSQL
- SQL Server
- Investment Banking
- Capital Markets
- Equities
- Fixed Income
- Prime Brokerage
- Post-Trade Processing
- Operations Technology
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Last updated 22 September 2026
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