Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our enterprise infrastructure team. This role bridges software engineering and systems operations you will own availability, performance, and scalability of mission-critical platforms that serve millions of users globally.

JOB DETAILS

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Experience: 5+ Years (Enterprise)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Mode: Hybrid / On-site

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Platform Reliability & Availability
• Define, monitor, and enforce SLOs/SLAs/SLIs across critical production services
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and blameless post-mortem processes
• Achieve and maintain 99.99%+ uptime targets for enterprise-grade systems
• Infrastructure Engineering
• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure (AWS / GCP / Azure)
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, containerized workloads, and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd)
• Implement and own infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Pulumi, or Ansible
• Observability & Monitoring
• Build and maintain comprehensive observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK)
• Design proactive alerting strategies and dashboards for business-critical metrics
• Champion distributed tracing using Jaeger, Zipkin, or OpenTelemetry
• Automation & Toil Reduction
• Identify and eliminate operational toil through automation and tooling improvements
• Develop self-healing systems and automated remediation runbooks
• Contribute to internal developer platforms and CI/CD pipeline reliability
• Capacity Planning & Performance
• Perform load forecasting, capacity planning, and performance tuning at scale
• Conduct chaos engineering and game-day exercises to test system resilience
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Partner with engineering, product, and security teams on production readiness reviews
• Define and enforce reliability standards in the SDLC and change management processes

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of hands-on SRE, DevOps, or production engineering in enterprise environments
• Deep expertise in Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Bash, or Java for automation and tooling
• Experience managing large-scale Kubernetes deployments in production
• Proficiency with cloud platforms: AWS (preferred), GCP, or Azure at enterprise scale
• Expertise with IaC tools: Terraform and/or Ansible in multi-environment setups
• Proven track record of incident management and leading critical production incidents
• Strong understanding of SLOs, error budgets, and reliability engineering principles

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Consul Connect)
• Background in financial services, healthcare, or other regulated enterprise industries
• Familiarity with FinOps and cloud cost optimization strategies
• Certifications: CKA/CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional
• Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Published runbooks, SRE playbooks, or internal engineering blog contributions

TECHNICAL SKILLS MATRIX

Cloud & Infra: AWS / GCP / Azure, Terraform (Pulumi, CDK, FinOps)

Containers: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm (Service Mesh, OPA)

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (Datadog, New Relic, OTEL)

Languages :Python, Bash, Go (Java, Rust)

CI/CD : Jenkins, GitHub Actions (ArgoCD, Flux, Spinnaker)

Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)