DevOps & SRE Lead

Syngentagroup; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Syngentagroup is seeking an experienced DevOps & SRE Lead to ensure reliability, scalability, and security of enterprise data and AI platforms. The role blends hands‑on leadership with site reliability practices to enable high‑quality delivery through automation, observability, and governance.

You will own DevOps across platforms, collaborate with data, AI, and product teams, and establish standards for building and running reliable systems at scale.

Qualifications

• B.Tech / M.Tech degree in engineering.
• 10–12+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles.
• 3+ years in a technical lead or senior ownership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead DevOps and SRE practices across platforms.
• Define and enforce DevOps standards, tooling, and best practices.
• Drive Infrastructure‑as‑Code and environment consistency across QA, staging, and production.
• Partner with application, data, and AI teams to embed DevOps practices early in development.
• Own platform reliability, availability, performance, and scalability.
• Define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability KPIs.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post‑incident reviews.
• Drive proactive reliability engineering through automation and observability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to DevOps/SRE engineers.
• Define operating models, on‑call processes, and support structures.

Skills

CI/CD tools

Cloud platforms

Infrastructure as Code

Containers & Kubernetes

Observability tools

Scripting languages

Education

B.Tech / M.Tech

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM

Docker

Kubernetes

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Python

Bash

Job description

Role purpose

The DevOps & SRE Lead is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence of enterprise data and AI platforms and applications.

This role combines hands‑on technical leadership with site reliability practices , enabling high‑quality delivery through automation, observability, and strong operational governance.

The role leads DevOps and SRE practices across platforms, works closely with data engineering teams, AI/ML, and product teams, and establishes standards that enable teams to build and run reliable systems at scale.

Knowledge, experience & capabilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

Lead the design, implementation, and evolution of CI/CD pipelines.

Define and enforce DevOps standards, tooling, and best practices.

Drive Infrastructure‑as‑Code and environment consistency across QA, staging, and production.

Partner with application, data, and AI teams to embed DevOps practices early in development.

Site Reliability Engineering

Own platform reliability, availability, performance, and scalability.

Define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability KPIs.

Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post‑incident reviews.

Drive proactive reliability engineering through automation and observability.

Cloud & Infrastructure

Own cloud platform operations (AWS preferred).

Ensure secure, cost‑efficient, and resilient cloud infrastructure.

Drive platform upgrades, patching, and lifecycle management.

Collaborate with security teams on IAM, network security, and compliance.

Observability & Operations

Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing frameworks.

Ensure high signal‑to‑noise operational alerts.

Continuously improve MTTR, system stability, and operational maturity.

Leadership & Governance

Provide technical leadership and mentoring to DevOps/SRE engineers.

Define operating models, on‑call processes, and support structures.

Work with Product Owners and Architects on roadmap planning.

Act as escalation point for platform and reliability issues.

Skills

• CI/CD: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• Cloud: AWS / Azure / GCP (strong in at least one)
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
• Observability: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
• Scripting: Python, Bash (or equivalent)

Critical success factors & key challenges

• Platform uptime and reliability metrics (SLOs).
• Domain team adoption rate of the self-serve platform.
• Mean Time to Detection (MTTD) and Recovery (MTTR) for platform incidents.
• Strong ownership mindset
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Ability to balance speed, stability, and governance

Qualification & Experience

• B.tech/M.tech grad
• 10-12+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles
• 3+ years in a technical lead or senior ownership role
• Experience supporting production‑critical platforms at scale

Innovations

Employee may, as part of his/her role and maybe through multifunctional teams, participate in the creation and design of innovative solutions. In this context, Employee may contribute to inventions, designs, other work product, including know-how, copyrights, software, innovations, solutions, and other intellectual assets.