Assistant Manager - Application
Assistant Manager - Application
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Job Description
Job Role
- Be responsible for production support & release management for application assigned - SRE C1 - Disaster Recovery : DR Activities.
- Should ensure high availability, resilience, incident management, DR readiness, and operational excellence across production environments.
- Should possess excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Disaster Recovery (DR) Management
- Lead end-to-end DR drills, failover, fallback, and BCP activities for critical applications and infrastructure.
- Coordinate with application, database, network, cloud, security, and vendor teams during DR exercises.
- Prepare DR Runbooks, recovery procedures, RCA reports, and audit documentation.
- Ensure DR compliance with regulatory and internal governance requirements.
- Validate RPO/RTO adherence and recommend resilience improvements.
- Conduct periodic DR readiness reviews and gap assessments.
- Ensuring the robust replication between primary & secondary sites.
- Oversee daily backup(s).
- Reliability Engineering
- Improve system reliability, uptime, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Implement SRE best practices including SLI/SLO/SLA management.
- Support release management, deployment validation, and change activities.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Infra, Security, and Application teams for platform stability.
- Participate in on-call support and critical incident handling.
- Other Key Responsibilities
- Provide regular updates on application health and incidents.
- Support reporting to senior managers and business stakeholders.
- Coordinate with DevOps, infrastructure, security, DBA & application teams
- Participate in release management and deployment activities
- Prepare RCA, SOP, KT, and operational documentation
- Support audits, compliance, and governance requirements
- Track resolution of all open issues, be part of the solutioning team for war room / discussions
- Manage audit queries related to Production environment
- Must have participate/conduct DR Planning of overall 5 years experience with at least 2+ years in Application/site level as RBI guidelines and orchestrated entire DR activities every year for minimum 15 to 20 applications.
- Strong understanding of SRE, Production Support, and DR/BCP concepts.
- Experience with Linux/Unix and Windows production environments.
- Ability to work in rotational shifts/on-call support
- Leadership and team coordination skills
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience in BFSI production environments with 24x7 support model.
- Good understanding of ITIL processes (Incident, Problem, Change, Release).
- Exposure to InfoSec, compliance, and audit requirements.
- Excellent stakeholder coordination and communication skills.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
- Certifications in DR/BCP, ITIL are preferred.

