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.