Site Reliability Engineer

Senior SRE (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 SeniorSRE, 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+ 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. Skills & Qualifications: Required Skills: • Technical Expertise: o Experience with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP) and Kubernetes. o Hands-on knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform /Helm/ Ansible. o Proficiency in Java o Expertise in distributed systems, databases, and load balancing. • Monitoring & Observability: o Proficient with tools like Prometheus, Grafana,, Elastic APM, or New relic. o Understanding of metrics-driven approaches for system monitoring and alerting. • Automation & CI/CD: o Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Azure Pipelines etc). o Skilled in automation frameworks and tools for infrastructure and application deployments. • Incident Management: o 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. • Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills. • Clear and concise communication, with the ability to translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders. 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.