Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 5+ years

Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

scalable, reliable, and high-performance cloud-native applications on Microsoft Azure

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

As an SRE, you will:

• Design, implement, and maintain our observability stack using OpenTelemetry standards.
• Ensure the

  availability, performance, and scalability

  of production systems.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed reliability practices, automate operational tasks, and respond to incidents quickly and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

1. Observability & OpenTelemetry (OTEL)

• Build and manage an

  observability platform

  with OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing, metrics, and logs.
• Instrument applications (Java, Python, Node.js) for end-to-end telemetry.
• Configure OTEL Collectors to export telemetry to

  Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, Loki, Tempo, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights

  .
• Develop custom instrumentation and semantic conventions.
• Establish robust alerting and anomaly detection using Azure Monitor, Prometheus Alertmanager, etc.
• Create

  dashboards

  (Grafana, Azure Dashboards) for real-time insights.
• Continuously enhance observability by adopting

  best practices and new OTEL features

  .

2. Azure SRE Responsibilities

• Reliability & Performance:

  Monitor systems, identify bottlenecks, and implement scaling and optimization strategies.

• Incident Response:

  Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident resolution, conduct RCA, and maintain runbooks/playbooks.

• Automation & IaC:

  Automate infrastructure and operational tasks using

  Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure Bicep, PowerShell, or Bash

  .

• CI/CD Integration:

  Embed reliability and observability checks into CI/CD pipelines.

• Capacity Planning:

  Analyze usage patterns, plan for scalability, and optimize

  Azure resource costs

  .

• Security & Compliance:

  Apply security best practices and ensure compliance.

• Collaboration:

  Mentor development teams on

  SRE and observability practices

  .

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years

  in SRE, DevOps, or a related infrastructure role.
• Strong expertise with

  OpenTelemetry

  (instrumentation, collection, processing).
• Hands-on with

  Azure cloud services

  (Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights).
• Proficient with

  Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM)

  .
• Skilled in

  scripting/automation

  (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience with

  Docker

  and

  Kubernetes/AKS

  .
• Familiarity with observability backends:

  Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Prometheus, Jaeger

  .
• Deep understanding of

  distributed systems and microservices

  .
• Excellent

  problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills

  .

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400).
• Experience with

  chaos engineering

  .
• Knowledge of

  SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

  .
• Familiarity with

  database monitoring

  (PostgreSQL, Azure SQL).
• Experience in

  high-availability or regulated environments

  .

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in

  Computer Science, IT

  , or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).