Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Bengaluru

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, Alert manager, Open Telemetry, Grafana , and  Loki / ELK / Open Search .
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  Dev Ops 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, Alert manager, Open Telemetry, and log platforms such as Loki / ELK / Open Search.
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, Git Hub) 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 Cloud Formation.
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.