ASSOCIATE ARCHITECT - Reliability Analysis

Happiest Minds Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Happiest Minds Technologies in Bengaluru seeks an Associate Architect - Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve production infrastructure. You will build scalable systems, automate workflows, and collaborate with product teams on architecture decisions.

Ideal candidates have extensive experience in DevOps/SRE, Kubernetes, AWS, and observability. You will contribute to a high-availability environment and participate in on-call rotations to ensure service reliability.

Qualifications

• 8–14 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Strong background in container orchestration and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production infrastructure for scalability and reliability.
• Troubleshoot and debug product and infra issues.
• Automate repetitive tasks and workflows to improve efficiency.
• Enhance Kubernetes platform (EKS) and related tooling.
• Provide scalability insights to developers and teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations to support production systems.

Skills

SLO/SLI Management

Observability Platforms

Pro-active Monitoring

Incident Response

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

AWS

Linux

CI/CD

Terraform/Ansible

SQL/NoSQL/OpenSearch

Programming (Python/TypeScript/Java)

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

AWS

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

OpenSearch

SQL

NoSQL

Job description

Job Title: Associate Architect - Site Reliability Engineer

Job Location: Bangalore

Experience Range: 8 to 14 Years

You’ll be a key part of our Infrastructure Platform team, focusing on the critical infrastructure that powers client environment. Beyond core infrastructure work, you’ll also collaborate closely with a product development team, offering your expertise to coach and guide them on infrastructure and architectural decisions.

In your day-to-day, you will:

• Build and maintain our production infrastructure to ensure scalability and high availability, while maximizing development team efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and debug issues related to both product and infrastructure.
• Automate everything! If something's worth doing, it's definitely worth automating.
• Improve and extend our Kubernetes platform, which leverages EKS.
• Provide crucial insights into scalability for our developers.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support our production systems.

Who you are:

• You're someone who loves ownership: you design it, you build it, you own it! You're a self-motivated individual and a strong team player within the Infrastructure Platform team.
• You have at least 2 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer (or a similar role like Software Engineer or Cloud Engineer).
• You have proven experience in architecting systems based on both functional and non-functional requirements.

Your qualifications

You should be proficient in, or have solid knowledge of:

Observability & Reliability

• SLO/SLI Management: Experience defining and implementing Service Level Objectives (SLO) and Service Level Indicators (SLI) to measure service health.
• Modern Observability: Proficiency with high-cardinality observability platforms; Honeycomb experience is a major plus, but experience with similar tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog) is welcome.
• Pro-active Monitoring: Proven ability to move beyond basic threshold alerts toward trend-based, pro-active alerting and distributed tracing.
• Incident Response: Experience with blameless post-mortems and a focus on reducing "toil" through automation.

Infrastructure & Orchestration

• Containerization: Proficient in Container Orchestration and technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• Service Mesh: Experience with Istio for traffic management, security, and microservices observability.
• Public Cloud: Strong hands-on experience with AWS.
• Linux: Deep knowledge of Linux-based systems.

Automation & Data

• CI/CD: Experience with Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Cloud Orchestration: Proficiency in Terraform and Ansible for automation and service configuration.
• Data Engines: Familiarity with SQL, NoSQL, OpenSearch, and AWS S3.
• Programming: Proficiency in at least one of our core languages: Python, TypeScript, or Java.