Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Experience: 12 to 18 Years

Location: Hyderabad

Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure applications and infrastructure in cloud or hybrid environments
• Implement and manage robust

  monitoring, alerting, and observability systems

• Automate recurrent operational tasks using

  scripts (e.g., Python) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform)

• Collaborate with engineers to build highly available, reliable, deployable systems, establishing guardrails around SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Own incident response by participating in on-call rotations, conducting RCAs, and implementing preventive measures and self-healing solutions
• Conduct performance tuning, capacity planning, and efficient disaster recovery design for strong Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
• Reduce manual toil in security compliance and patching processes through automation
• Support project teams in troubleshooting and resolving operational issues across development, testing, and production environments
• Provide guidance and operational support during project rollouts and infrastructure changes to ensure reliability and uptime
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, internal and external, to communicate technical concepts, resolve problems, and influence decision-making on technical matters
• Work closely with the product team to stay informed about evolving system design, business logic, and transaction flows to ensure reliability and operational readiness across services
• Identify and address organization-wide gaps in the SRE domain and develop implementable solutions that contribute to reliability and operational excellence

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
• 12+ years as an

  SRE, DevOps,

  or related role managing large-scale solutions or platforms
• Proficient in

  scripting (PowerShell, Python, Go, Bash)

  and solid understanding of coding/development principles
• Hands-on experience with

  cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Experienced with

  monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools

• Familiar with

  CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD)

• Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, especially in high-pressure, production-critical environments

• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform and other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• SRE-specific certifications from AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience shaping and scaling SRE practices
• Experience mentoring teams and fostering a strong reliability culture across the organization