DevOps / SRE (On-Prem)

66degrees; Bengaluru, Pune District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

66degrees is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the Managed Cloud Optimization team in Bengaluru. You will maintain, optimize, and scale cloud implementations, focusing on high availability and automation across Google Cloud Platform services, Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes.

You will work with Python and shell scripting to build self-healing solutions, monitor systems, and participate in continuous improvement efforts in a fast-growing Google Premier Partner environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of cloud and infrastructure experience (Linux/Windows, k8s, networking).
• Experience with automation: Ansible, Terraform, Packer.
• Strong communication and customer-facing skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure near-zero downtime with monitoring, alerting, and self-healing automation.
• Create automated, scalable systems using software and infrastructure principles.
• Manage on-premises and hybrid cloud environments with GCP and on-prem components.
• Advise clients on DevOps and SRE practices, deployment pipelines, HA, SLAs.

Skills

Teamwork

Strong communication

Troubleshooting

Self-motivated

Customer-facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

VMware vSphere

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Datadog

Python

Shell scripting

Linux

Job description

Overview of 66degrees:

66degrees is a leading consulting and professional services company specializing in developing AI-focused, data-led solutions leveraging the latest advancements in cloud technology. With our unmatched engineering capabilities and vast industry experience, we help the world's leading brands transform their business challenges into opportunities and shape the future of work.

At 66degrees, we believe in embracing the challenge and winning together. These values not only guide us in achieving our goals as a company but also for our people. We are dedicated to creating a significant impact for our employees by fostering a culture that sparks innovation and supports professional and personal growth along the way.

Overview of Role:

66degrees Managed Cloud Optimization (MCO) team works with some of the largest cloud users in the world to help them transform their businesses with technology. Our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) combine Google Cloud Platform expertise with a passion for devops methodologies to help our clients maintain, optimize, and scale their cloud implementations.

On a daily basis, our SREs work with varied and exciting customers on topics ranging from solving critical outages to designing and deploying new cloud workloads to building self-healing automation. Our SREs work with cutting-edge Google Cloud technologies like Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Anthos, BigQuery and data pipelines, as well as leading 3rd party tools like Prometheus, Datadog, and many others. Our SREs also work with languages like Python and Terraform to create automation, deploy infrastructure, and contribute to open-sourcing.

If youre looking to continually build and apply your Google Cloud expertise to new and varied environments while acting as a key contributor to building the best Google consulting partner in the industry let’s talk.

Responsibilities:

• Our ideal candidate will understand the value of teamwork. We are looking for the right fit with our rapidly growing organization and will invest in training.
• Ensure near-zero downtime with monitoring and alerting, self-healing automation, and continuous improvement using scripting languages such as Python and shell scripting
• Create highly automated, available and scalable systems by applying software and infrastructure principles
• Strong experience managing and supporting on-premises infrastructure environments, including networking, firewalls, load balancers, storage systems, and enterprise operations, along with hands-on experience in hybrid cloud architectures integrating on-premises datacenters with google cloud platform
• Employ and advise clients on DevOps and SRE principles and practices, covering deployment pipelines, HA, service reliability, technical debt, and operational toil for live services running at scale Provide a proactive approach to our clients’ workloads, anticipating failures, automating tasks, ensuring availability, and providing a great customer experience
• Understanding of CVE management, risk prioritization, and remediation workflows
• Knowledge of security hardening standards and best practices for Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, and cloud environments
• Work closely with clients, your team, and Google engineers to investigate and resolve infrastructure issues
• Contribute to ad-hoc initiatives such as writing documentation, open-sourcing, and improving operation, making a huge impact at a rapid-growth Google Premier Partner

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5+ years of cloud and infrastructure experience, including demonstrated expertise with Linux, Windows, k8s, databases, and networking services
• 2+ years of Google Cloud experience and related certifications strongly preferred but not required
• Experience working with virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, Citrix or similar technologies
• Familiarity with traditional datacenter operations, server lifecycle management, and infrastructure maintenance activities Proficiency with Python required. Other programming language experience is a plus
• Experience developing and maintaining automation using configuration management tools like Ansible, Packer for server provisioning, application deployment, compliance enforcement, patch management, and reusable automation components such as playbooks, roles, and inventories
• Strong provisioning and configuration skills using Terraform
• Experience with 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, and on-call support.
• Experience in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and code
• Experience determining & negotiating Error budgets, SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs with product owners
• Demonstrate the ability to work independently and as a member of a greater team, including cross-team activities
• Experience working in Agile Scrum, Kanban methodologies in SDLC
• Proven experience balancing service reliability, metrics, sustainability, technical debt, and operational toil for live services running at scale
• Strong communication skills, as this is a heavily customer-facing role
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, or equivalent required