Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title: Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Bangalore, Hyderabad & Chennai (Hybrid)

Experience: 8–14 Years

Job Summary

We are looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead a team of 5–6 engineers in a 24x7 production support environment. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in Incident Management, Linux, Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), DevOps, Automation, and Production Operations with the ability to drive reliability, automation, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5–6 SREs and coordinate daily operations.
• Act as Incident Commander during critical production incidents.
• Drive RCA, incident triage, and rapid issue resolution.
• Build automation to reduce manual operational tasks.
• Monitor system health and improve platform reliability.
• Troubleshoot Linux, Kubernetes, Cloud, Networking, and distributed systems.
• Prepare weekly/monthly KPI reports and collaborate with global engineering teams.

Mandatory Skills

• 8+ years in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) / Production Support
• Team Lead experience
• Incident Management, RCA & Incident Command
• Linux Administration
• Kubernetes & Docker
• AWS / Azure / GCP
• DevOps & CI/CD (GitHub/GitLab/Harness/Jenkins)
• Automation using Python/Shell/Bash
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Load Balancers)
• Experience with Java/Node.js applications is a plus

Preferred

• Experience in Fortune 500 or large enterprise environments
• Akamai/CDN knowledge
• Hybrid/Multi-cloud infrastructure experience
• AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude)

Looking for professionals who can thrive in high-pressure production environments, lead critical incidents, and drive automation to improve system reliability.