Lead, Site Reliability Engineer

Toyota Connected India; Chennai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Yearly gym membership reimbursement

Free catered lunches

Flexible dress code

Opportunity to build impactful products

Job summary

A leading automotive technology company in Chennai seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer. Responsibilities include designing reliable systems, monitoring performance, and improving application delivery processes using Kubernetes and Docker. Candidates should have 8+ years in SRE/DevOps and expertise in cloud environments. This role offers an innovative work environment with great benefits including gym reimbursement and flexible work arrangements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
• Expertise with AWS and understanding of cost management in cloud environments.
• Demonstrates advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design and implementation of reliable systems using Kubernetes and Docker.
• Monitor system performance and respond to incidents, utilizing Datadog for observability.
• Collaborate with development teams to identify and resolve reliability issues.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Docker

Istio

Datadog

Terraform

Golang

Rust

Tools

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Overview

Lead, Site Reliability Engineer at Toyota Connected India. Toyota Connected India is seeking a Lead SRE to join a team focused on infotainment solutions on embedded and cloud platforms. This is a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment requiring creative problem solving and the ability to wear multiple hats.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design and implementation of reliable and scalable systems using Kubernetes, Docker, and Istio.


• Proactively identify performance improvements in areas such as responsiveness, availability, and scalability.


• Monitor system performance and respond to incidents as they arise, utilizing Datadog for observability.


• Help develop automation scripts for deployment and monitoring.


• Leverage GitOps to ensure that software can reliably and smoothly be shipped to production.


• Collaborate with development teams to identify and resolve reliability issues.


• Conduct load testing to verify that systems can handle expected loads for new products and updates to existing products.


• Implement A/B deployments, canary deployments, and traffic mirroring strategies to ensure critical updates go smoothly and can be rolled back easily if necessary.


• Utilize Helm charts for application deployment and management.


• Understand AWS systems, including AWS Load Balancers, EKS and routing, to support systems handling millions of requests per hour.


• Ensure that solutions are cost-effective while providing a high-quality customer experience and maintaining very high availability.


• Participate in on-call rotations and support production systems, collaborating with SREs in other parts of the world.


• Contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing within the team.


• Assist in the implementation of best practices for system reliability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.


• Expertise with AWS.


• Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and Istio.


• Knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools, particularly Datadog, AppDynamics, ELK, Grafana, or Prometheus.


• Implement and tune Horizontal Pod Autoscalers (HPAs) to optimize resource utilization.


• Understanding of Argo CD for GitOps practices.


• Familiarity with A/B, Canary, Blue/Green deployments, and traffic mirroring techniques.


• Understanding of scripting and orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent.


• Awareness of cost management in cloud environments and the ability to balance cost with performance and reliability.


• Demonstrates advanced problem-solving, troubleshooting, decision making skills


• Ability to work independently and take ownership of tasks/assignments while driving them to completion.


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.


• Expertise in Golang or Rust

What’s in it for you?

• You'll be treated like the professional we know you are and left to manage your own time and workload.


• Yearly gym membership reimbursement & Free catered lunches.


• No dress codes! We trust you are responsible enough to choose what’s appropriate to wear for the day.


• Opportunity to build products that improve the safety and convenience of millions of customers.


• New cool office space and other awesome benefits!

Our Core Values: EPIC

Empathetic: We begin making decisions by looking at the world from the perspective of our customers, teammates, and partners.

Passionate: We are here to build something great, not just for the money. We are always looking to improve the experience of our millions of customers.

Innovative: We experiment with ideas to get to the best solution. Any constraint is a challenge, and we love looking for creative ways to solve them.

Collaborative: When it comes to people, we think the whole is greater than its parts and that everyone has a role to play in the success!

Details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level


• Employment type: Full-time


• Job function: Management and Manufacturing


• Industries: Desktop Computing Software Products

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India