Lead SRE

LM Wind Power / GE; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

LM Wind Power / GE in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead and scale our SRE function across India. You will drive reliability, scalability, and performance of production systems while fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.

You will lead a team of SREs, design robust infrastructure, automate operations, and guide incident management and service reliability across platforms in a dynamic cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of software engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.
• Experience managing large-scale, distributed systems in a cloud-native environment (AWS, Azure).
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, automation, CI/CD, and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a high-performing team of SREs across multiple time zones. Define and execute the SRE roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Drive adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets; oversee capacity planning and incident postmortems.
• Champion automation to reduce toil; build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and infrastructure-as-code solutions.
• Establish and monitor key metrics for system health and compliance; foster blameless postmortems and continuous learning.

Skills

Leadership

SRE Leadership

Automation

CI/CD Pipelines

Monitoring

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Docker

Kubernetes

AppDynamics

Splunk

Job description

What You'll Do

A successful Sr Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to lead and scale our SRE function in India. This role is pivotal in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our production systems while fostering a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement. You will lead a team of SREs responsible for designing and implementing robust infrastructure, automating operations, and driving incident management and service reliability across our platforms.

Responsibilities

• Leadership & Strategy Lead and mentor a high-performing team of SREs across multiple time zones. Execute the SRE roadmap aligned with business and engineering goals. Collaborate with engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to ensure system reliability and performance.


• Reliability Engineering Drive the adoption of SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Lead efforts in capacity planning, performance tuning, and disaster recovery. Oversee incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.


• Automation & Tooling Champion automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, observability tools, and infrastructure-as-code solutions.


• Operational Excellence Establish and monitor key metrics for system health and team performance. Ensure compliance with security, privacy, and regulatory standards. Foster a culture of blameless postmortems and continuous learning.

What You Will Need to be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience


• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity

What You May Need to be Successful

• Proven experience managing large-scale, distributed systems in a cloud-native environment (AWS, Azure).


• Strong expertise in monitoring (AppD, Splunk), automation (Terraform, Ansible), and CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).


• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and modern infrastructure practices.


• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a global, matrixed organization.


• Contributions to open-source SRE or DevOps tools.

Equal Employment Opportunities at First Advantage

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