Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Position Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep expertise in observability, cloud-native infrastructure, and large-scale distributed systems. This role is highly hands-on and focuses on designing, building, and operating reliable, observable, and scalable platforms running on Kubernetes, with a strong preference for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and AWS.

Job Responsibilities :

• Design, implement, and operate highly available and resilient Kubernetes-based systems .
• Define, monitor, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to ensure service reliability.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems , driving continuous improvement.
• Architect and manage observability platforms for metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Work hands-on with Prometheus, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry, Grafana , and Loki / ELK / OpenSearch .
• Implement cloud-native monitoring and logging , with preference for GCP Cloud Monitoring & Logging .
• Establish actionable alerting standards to reduce noise and improve response effectiveness.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on GCP (preferred) or AWS .
• Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters (GKE preferred) and deploy services using Helm .
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker .
• Develop automation and internal tooling using Python to improve reliability and observability.
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with reliability and monitoring checks.
• Mentor junior engineers, influence architectural decisions, and collaborate across engineering teams.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, SRE, or related software engineering role , supporting production-grade systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP (preferred) or AWS .
• Proven expertise in operating Kubernetes-based platforms in production environments (GKE preferred ).
• Solid experience designing and maintaining highly available and resilient systems using SRE best practices.
• Hands-on knowledge of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets , and reliability engineering principles.
• Strong experience with observability and monitoring tools , including Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry, and log platforms such as Loki / ELK / OpenSearch.
• Demonstrated experience in incident management, on-call support, root cause analysis, and postmortems .
• Proficiency in automation and tooling using Python , with additional scripting experience in Shell or Groovy.
• Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub) with deployment, monitoring, and reliability checks.
• Strong understanding of microservices architectures, distributed systems , and containerized workloads.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Good knowledge of cloud networking, security fundamentals, and access controls .
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive operational mindset.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional engineering teams.