Job Title : Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location : Hyderabad / Ahmedabad
Employment Type : Full-Time
Work Model : 3 Days from office
Job Overview
Dynamic, motivated individuals deliver exceptional solutions for the production resiliency of the systems. The role incorporates aspects of software engineering and operations, DevOps skills to come up with efficient ways of managing and operating applications. The role will require a high level of responsibility and accountability to deliver technical solutions.
Summary
As a Senior SRE, you will ensure platform reliability, incident management, and performance optimization. You'll define SLIs/SLOs, contribute to robust observability practices, and drive proactive reliability engineering across services.
Experience Required
- 6 - 10 years of SRE or infrastructure engineering experience in cloud-native environments.
- Mandatory :
- Cloud : GCP (GKE, Load Balancing, VPN, IAM)
- Observability : Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog
- Containers & Orchestration : Kubernetes, Docker
- Incident Management : On-call, RCA, SLIs/SLOs
- IaC : Terraform, Helm
- Incident Tools : PagerDuty, OpsGenie
- Nice to Have :
- GCP Monitoring, Skywalking
- Service Mesh, API Gateway
- GCP Spanner, MongoDB (basic)
Scope
- Drive operational excellence and platform resilience
- Reduce MTTR, increase service availability
- Own incident and RCA processes
Roles And Responsibilities
- Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and manage error budgets across services.
- Lead incident management for critical production issues - drive root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems.
- Create and maintain runbooks and standard operating procedures for high availability services.
- Design and implement observability frameworks using ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana; drive telemetry adoption.
- Coordinate cross-functional war-room sessions during major incidents and maintain response logs.
- Develop and improve automated system recovery, alert suppression, and escalation logic.
- Use GCP tools like GKE, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Armor to improve performance and security posture.
- Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to build highly available and scalable systems.
- Analyze performance metrics and conduct regular reliability reviews with engineering leads.
- Participate in capacity planning, failover testing, and resilience architecture reviews.
(ref:hirist.tech)
