Senior Systems Engineer , SRE T500-22691

Position: Senior Systems Engineer I, SRE [T500-22691]
About Marriott:

Marriott Tech Accelerator is part of Marriott International, a global leader in hospitality. Marriott International, Inc. is a leading American multinational company that operates a vast array of lodging brands, including hotels and residential properties. It consists of over 30 well-known brands and nearly 8,900 properties situated in 141 countries and territories.

Role

Title:

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Position Summary:

Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel company, with more brands, more hotels and more opportunities for associates to grow and succeed. Be where you can do your best work, begin your purpose, belong to an amazing global team, and become the best version of you.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will design and implement highly reliable, scalable, and secure systems. You will lead incident response, improve operational processes, and mentor junior engineers. This role requires strong technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and reliability engineering practices

Key Responsibilities:

- Define and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for critical systems, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Monitor and improve MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery) and MTTD (Mean Time to Detect) across services to enhance operational resilience.
- Design scalable AWS-based systems, including multi-region deployments and disaster recovery strategies.
- Develop reusable, versioned Terraform modules and maintain scalable Ansible configurations.
- Design and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines using tools like Harness.
- Build and optimize observability systems using Dynatrace and other platforms for proactive monitoring and root cause analysis.
- Lead incident response efforts, conduct root cause analysis, and implement process improvements.
- Manage production databases (SQL/No

SQL), including replication, failover, and performance tuning.
- Implement security controls and ensure compliance with organizational standards.
- Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning for critical systems.
- Collaborate with application support teams and manage vendor relationships to ensure timely resolution of issues and adherence to SLAs.
- Mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and influence reliability practices organization wide.

Required

Skills & Experience:

Mandatory

Skills:

- Min experience required is 4-6 years.
- Advanced Linux/Windows tuning and hardening.
- Strong proficiency in Bash and Python for production automation.
- Expertise in AWS services and scalable architecture design.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible.
- Proficiency in pipeline design and release engineering.

- Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and operational metrics like MTTR and MTTD.

Good to Have:

- Proven ability to lead and improve incident management processes.
- Ability to coordinate with third-party vendors for application support and issue resolution.
- Knowledge of security best practices and compliance frameworks.
- Strong leadership, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with multi-account AWS architecture.
- Familiarity with automation and self-healing systems.
- Knowledge of performance modeling and long-term capacity forecasting.
- Certifications in AWS, Terraform, or SRE practices.

Education and

Certifications:

- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification

Work location:

Hyderabad, India.

Work mode:
Hybrid