Cloud Site Reliability Engineer

Experian Group; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Experian is seeking an experienced Cloud Engineering Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Cloud Engineering team in Hyderabad. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating resilient cloud platforms that power our business-critical products and services.

You will lead automation, observability, and performance improvements, collaborate with architecture, security, and platform teams, and report to a Director.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as SRE/DevOps in cloud environments.
• Experience with AWS or Azure.
• Strong automation and IaC skills (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
• Proficient in observability, monitoring, logging and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate secure, highly available cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation to reduce toil.
• Maintain cloud lifecycle management including maintenance, optimization and retirement.
• Collaborate with architecture, security and platform teams to align with standards.
• Develop self-healing capabilities and release automation to improve reliability.
• Lead capacity planning, performance tuning and incident response.

Skills

Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure)

SRE / DevOps experience

Observability concepts

Networking basics

CI/CD expertise

Security best practices

Automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

Linux

Windows Server

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

Role Overview

Overview:

We are recruiting an experienced Cloud Engineering Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Cloud Engineering team.

The Cloud Engineering SRE plays a critical role in designing, improving cloud platforms and infrastructure services that support business-critical products and services. The SRE works with application teams, architecture teams, security teams, and platform engineers. The SRE ensures the reliability, scalability, availability, performance, and security of cloud-based systems throughout their lifecycle.

As a primary member of the Cloud Engineering function, the SRE drives through automation, observability, resilience engineering, and continuous improvement practices.

Summary:

As part of the Cloud Engineering team, participate in the design, implementation, operation, and optimization of cloud platform. Develop expertise in cloud-native technologies, infrastructure automation, reliability engineering.

The SRE will work along with engineering, architecture, and business teams to improve platform reliability, reduce operational toil, implement observability solutions, and ensure services meet agreed service levels and customer expectations. You will be reporting to a Director.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

• Develop secure, highly available cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using industry-standard tooling.
• Support cloud infrastructure lifecycle management including maintenance, optimization, and retirement.
• Collaborate with architecture and engineering teams to ensure cloud solutions align with enterprise standards.
• Help with capacity planning, performance tuning, and infrastructure optimization.

Automation & DevOps

• Automate repetitive operational activities to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Develop self-healing capabilities and automated remediation mechanisms.
• Promote Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and cloud-native engineering practices.
• Improve deployment reliability through testing, validation, and release automation.

Observability & Compliance

• Analyze system performance and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reliability.
• Create dashboards and operational metrics to support service health monitoring.
• Ensure cloud environments comply with security, regulatory, and governance requirements.
• Participate in vulnerability remediation and risk management activities.
• Identify operational, technical, and security risks and lead mitigation plans.

Collaboration & Technical Leadership

• Work with architecture, security, networking, and infrastructure build teams.
• Provide technical guidance on cloud reliability and operational best practices.
• Contribute to engineering standards, operational frameworks, and platform strategy.
• Stay informed of latest cloud technologies and industry best practices.

Technologies

• AWS / Azure
• Kubernetes / Docker
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions / Jenkins
• Prometheus / Grafana
• Datadog / Splunk
• OS – Linux / Windows Server
• Scripting – Python / Bash / PowerShell
• REST APIs
• High-level Networking and Security Services

Certifications

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• ITIL Foundation
• Terraform Associate

Experience and Skills

Essential Skills

• Experience supporting enterprise cloud environments (AWS Or Azure).
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• 3+ years of experience with Linux and/or Windows server administration.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform Or CloudFormation.
• Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, routing, and firewalls.
• Experience implementing observability solutions including monitoring, logging and alerting.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Understanding security best practices for cloud platforms.

Good to have Skills

• Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, and API-driven systems.
• Knowledge of FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and capacity management.

About Experian

Experian is a global data and technology company, powering opportunities for people and businesses around the world. We operate across a range of markets, from financial services to healthcare, automotive, agribusiness, insurance, and many more. Experian invests in people and new advanced technologies to unlock the power of data. We have an amazing team of 25,200 people in 32 countries.

Our uniqueness is that we truly celebrate yours. Experian's culture and people are important differentiators. We take our people agenda very seriously and focus on what truly matters; DEI, work/life balance, development, authenticity, engagement, collaboration, wellness, reward & recognition, volunteering... the list goes on. Experian's strong people first approach is award winning; Great Place To Work™ in 24 countries, FORTUNE Best Companies to work and Glassdoor Best Places to Work (globally 4.4 Stars) to name a few. Check out Experian Life on social or our Careers Site to understand why.

Experian is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affiantive Action employer. Innovation is a critical part of Experian's DNA and practices, and our diverse workforce drives our success. Everyone can succeed at Experian and bring their whole self to work, irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, religion, color, sexuality, physical ability or age. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.

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Benefits

Experian care for employee's work life balance, health, safety and wellbeing. In support of this endeavour, we offer best-in-class family well-being benefits, enhanced medical benefits and paid time off.

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