Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - LEAD

Department:

Job Summary:

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Define and evolve the SRE CoE vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Establish enterprise-wide SRE standards, frameworks, and maturity models.
• Drive adoption of SRE principles across product and platform teams.

Enablement

• Act as a subject matter expert and advisor to engineering teams on reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Conduct workshops, training sessions, and knowledge-sharing forums.
• Promote a culture of observability, automation, and continuous improvement.

Collaboration & Mentorship

• Partner with engineering, product, and operations leaders to align reliability goals with business outcomes.
• Mentor SREs and engineers across teams, fostering a community of practice.
• Lead cross-functional reliability reviews and architecture assessments.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and network teams.
• Align infrastructure reliability with application SLOs/SLIs.
• Advocate for best practices in system architecture and operations.

Infrastructure & Reliability

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable infrastructure.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery strategies.
• Improve reliability for legacy and hybrid (cloud/on-prem) systems.

Monitoring & Incident Management

• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems.
• Conduct root cause analysis and post-mortems.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production issues.

Automation & Efficiency

• Automate repetitive tasks using scripting and tooling.
• Lead Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and automation for provisioning and scaling.
• Create sustainable systems through automation and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and recommend tools for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and chaos engineering.
• Build reusable automation frameworks and templates for onboarding teams to SRE practices.
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to integrate reliability tooling into CI/CD pipeline
• Support rigorous testing and release procedures.

Performance & Capacity

• Lead capacity planning, system upgrades, and OS patching.
• Gather and analyze system/application metrics for performance tuning.

Containerization & Cloud

• Support Kubernetes and container platforms in hybrid environments.
• Work with OpenShift, GCP, Azure and AWS for cloud-integrated services.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience in SRE.
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Python).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in setting up or leading a CoE or similar strategic function.
• Certifications in cloud, DevOps, or SRE-related domains.
• Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing.
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• Experience with incident management and SLO/SLI/SLA frameworks.