Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Who are we?

About the team

Equinix connects the world’s digital infrastructure. The Digital Interconnection (DIGIN) SRE team keeps the platforms behind our digital interconnection products reliable, secure and observable. These include Fabric, Internet Access, Application Connect and our MCP servers. Our engineers are spread across the US, Europe and Asia and provide 24×7 coverage for critical services.

We are growing our team in India. You will help shape how we build and operate it.

The role

As a Staff SRE, you will be a technical contributor on the Digital Interconnection SRE team. You will perform DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering by setting reliability standards, lead complex designs and incident response for the applications and the infrastructure it runs on. You will work with product engineering, platform infrastructure and operations teams to make our services dependable, self-service and easy to observe.

What you will do

• Define and run SLOs, SLIs and error budgets, and drive reliability improvements from the data.

• Lead incident response for P0/P1 events, run blameless post-incident reviews, and follow up on corrective actions.

• Design, build and operate Kubernetes platforms on AWS and on bare metal servers, including cluster lifecycle, upgrades and capacity planning.

• Build and improve CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (GitHub Actions, Argo CD) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible).

• Extend our observability stack (Grafana Cloud, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo) from services down to the hardware layer.

• Automate repetitive operational work, including with AI-assisted tooling such as our SRE Bot and MCP servers.

• Lead production readiness reviews, resilience and chaos testing, and disaster recovery exercises.

• Partner on security and compliance practices such as secrets management (Vault), image and dependency scanning, and identity and access.

• Support and guide developers and contribute to the team’s technical direction.

What you bring

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps or infrastructure engineering, with demonstrated technical leadership.

• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, including cluster operations, networking and troubleshooting.

• Strong coding or scripting skills in at least one of Python, Go or Java, plus Bash.

• Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD and GitOps (for example Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions, Argo CD).

• Strong observability skills: metrics, logs and traces, SLO-based alerting, and dashboards.

• Experience running 24×7 production services, including on-call and incident command.

• Solid grounding in Linux, networking (L2/L3, load balancing, service mesh) and cloud platforms, preferably AWS.

• Clear written and verbal communication, and comfort working across time zones.

Nice to have

• Istio or another service mesh, Rancher, kube-vip or similar HA tooling.

• Experience operating infrastructure across geographically distributed sites.

• Experience with Kafka, Cassandra, Temporal, Postgres or AuroraDB.

• Chaos engineering experience and multi-region or active-active designs.

• Experience applying AI or LLM tooling to operations and incident triage.

Why join us

• Work on infrastructure and applications that underpins global digital interconnection.

• Own meaningful technical problems, from bare metal to the various distributed systems involved that manage the application layer.

• Join a collaborative, global team that values blameless learning, automation and clear communication.

• Competitive compensation and benefits, and room to grow.

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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