Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Quest Diagnostics; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 8,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Quest Diagnostics is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to establish and lead a first-class SRE practice in Hyderabad, India. You will drive availability, resiliency, and stability across Quest products, platforms and services by defining and implementing robust monitoring, performance and chaos engineering strategies.

As a technical leader, you will partner with architecture, security and operations teams to build reusable patterns for reliable deployment and operation, while

Qualifications

• Experience in transforming an organization by designing and implementing SRE capabilities, including monitoring, performance and chaos engineering.
• Lead initiatives to implement service levels (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs) and error budgets.
• Mentor teams of monitoring, performance and SRE engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead an SRE practice aligned with agile teams to improve availability, resiliency and stability of Quest products and services.
• Partner with architecture, security and operations to design reusable patterns for reliable deployments.
• Attract, retain and develop top SRE engineering talent and provide mentorship across teams.

Skills

SRE

Observability

Cloud (Public/Private)

Leadership

Chaos engineering

Tools

Monitoring tools

Job description

As a Principal Site Reliability Engineering, you will be responsible for building a SRE practice, monitoring and performance engineering best practices which will be aligned to our agile teams to help drive availability, resiliency and stability of Quest products, platform and services.

You are an engineering technical leader who has a passion for reliability and have a wide breath of experience. Ideally, you will have had experience as a Site Reliability and Observability Engineer where you made significant improvements to the products/services/platforms and customer experience. You will also partner with architecture, engineers, security, and operations to design and build reusable patterns to deploy reliable and resilient solutions.

You will also have responsibility to attract, retain and grow top SRE engineering talent, providing guidance and mentorship to team members.

You will bring empathy, humility, and a continuous learning mindset to every interaction. You are motivated to innovate and create, to always do the right thing, and to improve both what we build and how we build it.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Experience in transforming an organization by designing and implementing SRE capabilities, including monitoring, performance and chaos engineering. You will set the strategy for overall Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)/Development ali
• gnmentLead initiatives to implement service levels (SLIs, SLOs, SLAs) and error budgets. You will initiate, influence and drive SRE within the organization and work with product and service teams to enable this
• model.Provides guidelines/patterns and establishes proper metrics for building highly scalable, reliable, high performing s
• ystemsStrategizes best in class monitoring frameworks to accomplish end to end flow monitoring and meaningful ale
• rting.Coaches and mentors’ teams of monitoring, performance and SRE engi
• neers.Proven ability to implement processes, solutions and engineering capabilities at
• scale.Prior experience in large scale digital technologies, where uptime and continuous availability was core to the bus
• iness.Strong acumen of public cloud and / or private cloud implementation and application ad
• optionStrong understanding of Cloud, API, Event Driven, and Microservices technologies for large scale environ
• ments.Influences other leaders, principals, and engineers opening the discussion and adoption for implementing SRE best prac
• tices.Builds relationships with other leaders and groups across the company, providing understanding of SRE concepts and
• value.Work with other team leads to identify improvements outside of SRE, i.e. DevOps, Quality
• , etc.Partners with the Director of SRE to build platform roadmaps, frameworks, and identify team/process improve
• ments.Technical owner of SRE tools with expertise and understanding of current and other widely used industry.