SRE Lead (Engineering & Reliability)

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead to oversee the reliability, scalability, and performance of our critical systems. As an SRE Lead, you will play a pivotal role in establishing and implementing SRE practices, leading a team of engineers, and driving automation, monitoring, and incident response strategies. This position combines software engineering and systems engineering expertise to build and maintain high-performing, reliable systems.

Experience: 7-12 years

Key Responsibilities:

Reliability & Performance:

• Lead efforts to maintain high availability and reliability of critical services.
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to ensure business requirements are met.
• Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and system inefficiencies.

Incident Management & Response:

• Establish and improve incident management processes and on-call rotations.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for high-priority outages.
• Drive post-incident reviews and ensure actionable insights are implemented.

Automation & Tooling:

• Develop and implement automated solutions to reduce manual operational tasks.
• Enhance system observability through metrics, logging, and distributed tracing tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic APM).
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployments.

Collaboration:

• Partner with software engineering teams to improve the reliability of applications and infrastructure.
• Work closely with product/ engineering teams to design scalable and robust systems.
• Ensure seamless integration of monitoring and alerting systems across teams.

Leadership & Team Building:

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of SREs.
• Promote SRE best practices and foster a culture of reliability and performance across the organization.
• Drive performance reviews, skills development, and career progression for team
• members.

Capacity Planning & Cost Optimization:

• Perform capacity planning and implement autoscaling solutions to handle traffic spikes.
• Optimize infrastructure and cloud costs while maintaining reliability and performance.

Required Skills:

Technical Expertise:

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform /Helm/

Ansible.

Proficiency in Java

• Expertise in distributed systems, databases, and load balancing.
• Monitoring & Observability:
• Proficient with tools like Prometheus, Grafana,, Elastic APM, or New relic.
• Understanding of metrics-driven approaches for system monitoring and

alerting.

Automation & CI/CD:

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Azure Pipelines

etc).

• Skilled in automation frameworks and tools for infrastructure and application

deployments.

Incident Management:

• Proven track record in handling incidents, post-mortems, and implementing

solutions to prevent recurrence.

Leadership & Communication Skills:

• Strong people management and leadership skills with the ability to inspire and

motivate teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with database optimization, Kafka, or other messaging systems.
• Knowledge of autoscaling techniques
• Previous experience in an SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering leadership role.
• Understanding of compliance and security best practices in distributed systems.