Platform Site Reliability Engineer

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Role Overview

Platform Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

SLA/SLO targets

Key Roles & Responsibilities

Reliability Engineering & Availability

• Own and drive

  SLIs, SLOs, SLAs

  , and error budgets for platform services.
• Balance feature velocity with system reliability using

  error budget frameworks

  .
• Design and implement

  high-availability architectures

  with redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Lead initiatives to achieve and sustain

  99.9%+ uptime

  for critical systems.
• Perform

  capacity planning

  , forecasting, and scalability assessments.
• Conduct

  chaos engineering experiments

  to proactively identify system weaknesses.

Infrastructure Automation & Platform Engineering

• Build and maintain

  Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

  using Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Ansible.
• Develop automation and tooling using

  Python, Go, Bash

  , or similar languages to eliminate manual toil.
• Implement

  self-healing systems

  and automated remediation workflows.
• Design and maintain internal

  platform services and developer tools

  .
• Implement

  GitOps workflows

  and declarative infrastructure management.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployments.
  

Cloud & Kubernetes Engineering

• Design and operate infrastructure across

  AWS, Azure, and GCP

  environments.
• Build and manage

  Kubernetes clusters

  (EKS, AKS, GKE, self-managed).
• Implement container orchestration best practices including

  HPA, VPA, cluster autoscaler

  .
• Design and operate

  service mesh

  solutions (Istio, Linkerd, Consul).
• Optimize container networking, security, storage, and scheduling.
  
• Manage container registries (ECR, ACR, GCR, Harbor).
  

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Build and maintain

  CI/CD pipelines

  using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or CircleCI.
• Implement deployment strategies such as

  blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments

  .
• Manage artifact repositories (Nexus, Artifactory).
  
• Implement deployment gates, approval workflows, and rollback mechanisms.
  
• Integrate security scanning and secrets management into pipelines.
  

Incident Management & Operational Excellence

• Participate in

  24/7 on-call rotations

  for production systems.
• Lead incident response, triage, and resolution during outages.
  
• Conduct

  blameless postmortems

  and drive actionable improvements.
• Track and improve

  MTTD and MTTR

  metrics.
• Build and maintain

  runbooks, playbooks, and incident automation

  .

Observability & Performance Optimization

• Deploy and manage

  monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms

  .
• Design dashboards for system health, performance, and SLO tracking.
  
• Configure intelligent alerts to minimize noise and alert fatigue.
  
• Perform performance tuning across applications, databases, and infrastructure.
  
• Implement caching strategies (Redis, Memcached, CDN) to improve performance.
  
• Optimize infrastructure for

  cost efficiency and performance balance

  .

Security & Compliance

• Implement cloud and infrastructure

  security best practices

  (least privilege, zero trust).
• Manage secrets using

  Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault

  .
• Implement network security (VPCs, firewalls, security groups, network policies).
  
• Ensure compliance with

  SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, HIPAA

  , and internal standards.
• Integrate security scanning and vulnerability management into CI/CD pipelines.
  

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with development teams to improve service reliability.
  
• Participate in architecture and design reviews.
  
• Mentor junior engineers and promote SRE best practices.
  
• Create and maintain documentation, diagrams, and knowledge bases.
  
• Lead cross-functional reliability and platform improvement initiatives.
  

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

• Strong proficiency in

  Python, Go, Bash, Ruby, or Java

  .
• Experience building production-grade automation and tooling.
  
• Deep experience with

  AWS

  (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch).
• Working knowledge of

  Azure

  and

  GCP

  infrastructure services.
• Strong expertise in

  Kubernetes

  and Docker containerization.
• Hands-on experience with

  Terraform

  (highly preferred).
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
  
• Strong CI/CD experience with modern pipeline tools.
  

Systems & Networking

• Solid understanding of

  distributed systems and microservices

  .
• Knowledge of

  TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, CDNs, and networking concepts

  .
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
  
• Strong observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or New Relic.
  

Professional Experience

• 69 years in

  SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles

  .
• 3+ years managing

  high-availability production systems

  .
• Proven track record of

  automation-driven reliability improvements

  .
• Experience operating infrastructure at scale.
  

Soft Skills & Mindset

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
  
• Ownership-driven mindset with accountability for system reliability.
  
• Ability to remain calm and effective during high-severity incidents.
  
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  
• Strong commitment to

  blameless culture

  and continuous improvement.

Certifications (Preferred)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
  
• Azure Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer
  
• Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
  
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA / CKAD)
  
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
  

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Chaos engineering (Chaos Monkey, Gremlin, LitmusChaos).
  
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization.
  
• GitOps tools (ArgoCD, Flux).
  
• Progressive delivery tools (Spinnaker, Flagger).
  
• Serverless platforms and architectures.
  
• Contributions to open-source SRE or infrastructure projects.
  

Education

• Bachelor’s degree

  in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.