Cloud Specialist- SRE

SRE Lead

Role Description:
We are seeking an experienced SRE Strategist to lead the reliability and operational excellence agenda for our Enterprise Data Platforms spanning GCP cloud-native systems. This strategic leadership role will help instill Google’s SRE principles across diverse data engineering teams, uplift our platform reliability posture, and spearhead the creation of a Centre-of-Excellence (CoE) for SRE. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of modern SRE practices, demonstrate a proven ability to scale SRE capabilities in large enterprises, and evangelise a data-driven approach to resilience engineering.

Key Responsibilities:
Define and drive SRE strategy for enterprise data platforms on GCP, aligning with business goals and reliability needs. Act as a trusted advisor to platform teams, embedding SRE mindset, best practices, and golden signals into their SDLC and operational processes. Set up and lead a Site Reliability Engineering CoE, delivering reusable tools, runbooks, blueprints, and platform accelerators to scale SRE adoption across the organisation. Partner with product and platform owners to prioritise and structure SRE backlogs, formulate roadmaps, and help teams move from reactive ops to proactive reliability engineering. Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across critical data services, enabling data-driven decision making around availability and performance. Drive incident response maturity, including chaos engineering, incident retrospectives, and blameless postmortems. Foster a reliability culture through coaching, workshops, and cross-functional forums. Build strategic relationships across engineering, data governance, security, and architecture teams to ensure reliability is baked in, not bolted on.

Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline. 3+ years in SRE leadership or SRE strategy roles. Strong familiarity with Google SRE principles and practical experience applying them in complex enterprise settings. Proven track record in establishing and scaling SRE teams. Experience with GCP services like Cloud Build, GCS, CloudSQL, Cloud Functions, and GCP logging & monitoring. Deep experience with observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, and GCP native solutions. Skilled in Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform, and working knowledge of automation in CI/CD environments.

Key Competencies & Skills:
Strong leadership, influence without authority, and mentoring capabilities. Hands-on scripting and automation skills in Python, with secondary languages like Go or Java a plus. Familiarity with incident and problem management frameworks in enterprise environments. Ability to define and execute a platform-wide reliability roadmap in alignment with architectural and business objectives.

Nice to Have:
Exposure to secrets management tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault). Experience with tracing and APM tools like Google Cloud Trace or Honeycomb. Background in data governance, data pipelines, and security standards for data products.