Technical Lead - SRE

MoEngage is looking for a seasoned Technical Lead - SRE to join our team. In this role, your focus will be 20% on leadership and 80% on hands-on execution. You'll be instrumental in technically guiding the team on daily operations and agile projects, actively contributing to critical initiatives, and collaborating with SRE leadership on planning and architecture. This is a prime opportunity to mentor engineers, work with diverse stakeholders, and significantly impact our cloud infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities

• Technically lead the team on day-to-day operations and agile project management.
• Actively and hands-on execute critical projects alongside the team.
• Work with SRE leadership in project planning and architecture designs.
• Mentor and guide the SRE team and help them in their career development.
• Work with stakeholders including developers and security teams.

What You Will Bring to the Table

• Extensive experience on public cloud platforms, with significant time in AWS.
• Substantial experience on Kubernetes and the associated CNCF ecosystem.
• Continuous Integration expertise, including test, build, and packaging tools, code quality and security analysis tools, artifact and container storage, etc.
• Continuous delivery and deployment expertise – GitOps tools, Argo ecosystem, Autoscaling, Traffic Distribution.
• Cloud and infrastructure management with automation using Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Programming expertise in Python and/or Golang.
• Observability skillset – expert on setting up and scaling Prometheus or Prometheus-compatible metrics systems. Log management with ELK or VMLog stacks, familiarity with distributed tracing and APM.
• Data Processing and Distributed Systems Knowledge – Familiarity with event-driven architecture on the Kafka ecosystem. Knowledge of Flink, Celery, Mongo, and Scylla would be an added advantage.
• Knowledge of Cloud cost and cloud security posture.
• Experience in technically leading a reasonably sized SRE/DevOps team.
• Experience in leading projects and stakeholder management.