DBS Bank Hiring Associate, Release and Deployment Support – Site Reliability Engineering

DBS Bank is hiring an Associate, Release and Deployment Support – Site Reliability Engineering professional in Hyderabad.

The role is part of the Release & Deployment Team, which is responsible for maintaining production stability by governing and executing approved production and pre-production changes. The position involves release management, production deployments, change governance, privileged access management, incident support, DevOps automation, and operational reliability.

This opportunity is well suited for professionals with experience in DevOps operations, production support, release management, Linux administration, CI/CD, ITIL, OpenShift, databases, and enterprise change-management processes.

Key Responsibilities

Production Change Governance & Planning

• Review and validate Change Requests (CRs) before implementation.
• Verify scope, technical feasibility, risk, impact, rollback plans, and required approvals.
• Coordinate with L2/L3 Application Support, Infrastructure, Middleware, Database, and Platform teams.
• Participate in Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings and release-readiness reviews.
• Ensure technical, security, business, and change approvals are completed before deployments.

Release & Deployment Management

• Execute production and pre-production deployments according to approved change requests.
• Perform application releases, upgrades, configuration changes, middleware deployments, and database script execution.
• Support security and access-related changes.
• Perform deployments across Production, Disaster Recovery (DR), Pre-Production, and UAT environments.
• Ensure deployment activities remain within approved change windows.

Privileged Access & Security

• Work with CyberArk and Privileged Access Management (PAM) processes.
• Perform password withdrawal and return procedures.
• Support Privileged Session Management (PSM).
• Follow secure credential-handling and segregation-of-duties requirements.
• Maintain deployment evidence for audit, security, and regulatory requirements.

Post-Deployment Validation

• Perform Technical Level Validation (Tech LV) after deployments.
• Coordinate Business Level Validation (Biz LV).
• Maintain deployment evidence including:
  • Execution logs
  • Screenshots
  • Session recordings
  • Implementation transcripts
  • Audit artifacts
• Participate in post-implementation reviews and process improvements.

Production Support & Incident Management

• Provide Level-1 operational support for release and deployment incidents.
• Support recovery from deployment failures, batch failures, and production incidents.
• Participate in production war rooms and incident bridges.
• Escalate deployment risks, delays, and failures to appropriate technical and management teams.
• Contribute to root-cause analysis and corrective actions.

DevOps & Automation

• Identify repetitive manual deployment processes suitable for automation.
• Support CI/CD and release automation initiatives.
• Improve deployment and operational processes.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and technical documentation.
• Participate in knowledge-sharing and cross-training activities

Candidates should have experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Production Support
• Release Management
• Change Management
• DevOps Operations
• IT Operations
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Enterprise application deployment

Experience in Banking or Financial Services is highly preferred.

Experience working in regulated production environments with strict governance, audit, and security controls is an advantage.

Technical Skills

Linux & Operating Systems

• Strong Linux administration fundamentals.
• Working knowledge of Unix and Windows.
• Basic shell scripting.

Release & Deployment

• Production deployment
• Pre-production deployment
• Disaster Recovery environments
• UAT environments
• Release management
• Change management
• ITIL practices
• Change governance

Infrastructure & Middleware

• Middleware platforms
• Application server administration
• System configuration management
• Environment management

Databases

• Basic Oracle Database knowledge
• Basic PostgreSQL knowledge
• SQL execution and validation

Security

• CyberArk
• Privileged Access Management (PAM)
• Privileged Session Management (PSM)
• Secure credential handling
• Audit and compliance processes

DevOps & Automation

• CI/CD concepts
• Release automation
• DevOps practices
• OpenShift fundamentals
• Deployment automation

Patch & Platform Maintenance

• OS patch management
• Database patching concepts
• OpenShift patching and maintenance

Key Skills

DevOps | SRE | Release Management | Production Support | Linux | CI/CD | OpenShift | CyberArk | PAM | ITIL | Change Management | Deployment | Oracle | PostgreSQL | Shell Scripting | Incident Management | Automation.

«Salary note: DBS has not published a salary range for this vacancy. The range above is an estimated market range based on third-party DBS Hyderabad compensation data and comparable technical Associate roles. Actual compensation may vary by experience, level, and total compensation structure.»