Site Reliability Engineer

Position: Site Reliability Engineer (4-6 years)
Location: Bengaluru

Job Summary:

We’re looking for a  Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)  with  4-6 years of experience  with strong technical and analytical skills to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our core applications. This role focuses on improving the stability and efficiency of distributed systems built on  Java and microservices architecture , driving operational excellence through  monitoring, automation, and incident management .

Key Responsibilities:

Application Reliability & Performance
Monitor and maintain the health, performance, and reliability of production applications.
Define, measure, and track  SLIs/SLOs  for key services, driving improvements proactively.
Identify performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and slow transactions in  Java-based microservices.
Partner with development teams to design and deploy resilient, fault-tolerant systems.
Mentor developers and operations engineers on observability and debugging techniques.
Incident Management & Troubleshooting
Actively participate in incident response, triaging application issues, and restoring services quickly.
Perform deep root-cause analysis for recurring incidents and ensure permanent fixes are implemented.
Own the  incident lifecycle  — from detection to resolution and post-incident review.
Ensure observability tools and alert thresholds are tuned to reduce false positives and improve signal quality.
Monitoring & Automation
Enhance visibility across systems through better  metrics, logs, and traces  using Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki (or similar).
Automate repetitive tasks — deployments, rollbacks, scaling, and diagnostics.
Build or improve  runbooks and self-healing mechanisms  to reduce operational toil.
Integrate AIOps capabilities for smarter alert correlation, anomaly detection, and incident prediction.
Operational Ownership
Ensure production systems meet availability and performance targets.
Track open issues, follow up on root cause actions, and drive closure with responsible teams.
Collaborate with developers, infrastructure, and QA to maintain a consistent and stable release cycle.
Contribute to  continuous improvement  of deployment, monitoring, and rollback processes.
Collaboration & Communication
Work closely with product and platform engineering to integrate reliability into system design.
Communicate incident status, RCA findings, and reliability metrics to stakeholders.
Foster a reliability-first culture and advocate for operational excellence across teams.

Skills & Qualifications

Required Skills:

4–6 years of experience in  Site Reliability Engineering or Application Operations .
Solid understanding of  Java, Springboot and microservices architecture.
Proficiency in  monitoring and observability tools  (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, New Relic, or equivalent).
Familiarity with  Kubernetes , containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with  incident management , RCA, and performance debugging.

Experience with  cloud platforms  (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go) for automation and diagnostics.
Good communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
Preferred

Skills:

Experience with  modern observability tools
Familiarity with  ITSM or ticketing tools  (Jira, Service Now) for issue tracking.
Knowledge of  security and compliance  in production environments.
Hands-on experience with  JVM performance tuning   and runtime diagnostics  to improve Java service performance.
Exposure to using  AI or LLM-based tools  for alert correlation, log analysis, root-cause detection, or automated