Lead Platform Engineer

Sony India Software Centre; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony India Software Centre is hiring for a Reliability Engineering role in Bengaluru focused on building and operating Kubernetes-based systems with strong emphasis on observability and incident management.

The role requires leadership in defining reliability practices, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating across engineering teams to drive platform-wide improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based systems
• Strong automation and scripting using Python
• Proficient in reliability engineering and observability
• Mentor engineers and influence architectural decisions
• Collaborate across engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available Kubernetes-based systems
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems
• Drive reliability improvements via automation
• Architect and operate observability platforms for metrics/logging/tracing
• Deploy services using Helm and manage Docker workloads

Job description

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient systems in Kubernetes-based environments


• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets


• Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems


• Drive reliability improvements through automation

Key Responsibilities

Reliability & Operations

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient systems in Kubernetes-based environments


• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets


• Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems


• Drive reliability improvements through automation

Observability (Core Focus)

• Architect and operate observability platforms for metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting


• Work with Prometheus, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki / ELK / OpenSearch


• Implement cloud-native monitoring (GCP Cloud Monitoring & Logging preferred)


• Establish actionable alerting standards

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Build and manage infrastructure on GCP (preferred) or AWS


• Operate Kubernetes clusters (GKE preferred)


• Deploy services using Helm


• Manage containerized workloads using Docker

Automation & Tooling

• Strong Python skills with emphasis on reliability, automation, and observability tooling


• Develop automation and tooling using Python


• Create internal reliability and monitoring tools


• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with observability and reliability checks

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentor junior engineers


• Influence architecture decisions


• Collaborate across engineering teams