Lead SRE

UST

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

UST in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to improve service reliability through SLIs/SLOs, automate toil, and collaborate with global engineering teams to build scalable, secure platforms.

The role requires 8–12 years in SRE, hands-on Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, and strong Python/Go/Bash skills; resident in Bengaluru ITPL office, five days a week.

Qualifications

8–12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering.
Strong hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible.
Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash; solid Networking & Security understanding.

Responsibilities

Define, measure, and report SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
Drive reliability improvements and reduce toil through automation.
Own capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability initiatives.
Lead blameless postmortems, RCA, and corrective action tracking.

Skills

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Terraform

Ansible

Python/Go/Bash

SLIs/SLOs

Incident Management

RCA

Networking & Security

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

PostgreSQL

Redis

RabbitMQ

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

JFrog Artifactory

Job description

Who we are: At UST, we help the world’s best organizations grow and succeed through transformation. Bringing together the right talent, tools, and ideas, we work with our client to co‑create lasting change. Together, with over 30,000 employees in 30+ countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at .

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong hands‑on expertise in cloud infrastructure, platform reliability, automation, observability, and production support. This role focuses on improving service reliability through SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, reducing operational toil through automation, and partnering with global engineering teams to ensure resilient, scalable, and secure platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Define, measure, and report SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
Drive service reliability improvements and systematically reduce operational toil through automation.
Own capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability initiatives.
Lead blameless postmortems, root cause analyses, and corrective action tracking.

Platform Reliability & Automation

Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
Operate and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
Deploy and support containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible.
Manage artifacts and repositories using JFrog Artifactory.

Observability & Production Support

Implement monitoring, logging, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
Provide L2/L3 production support, incident management, troubleshooting, and RCA.
Participate in on‑call rotations supporting critical production services.
Support PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ environments, including high availability, backups, replication, and performance tuning.

Collaboration

Partner with Development, QA, Product, Operations, and global engineering teams.
Ensure platform availability, scalability, security, and performance.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

8-12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering
Strong hands‑on experience with:

Azure
Kubernetes
Docker
Jenkins
Terraform
Ansible

Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash.
Strong understanding of Networking & Security.
Experience in L2/L3 production support, incident management, and root cause analysis.
Experience working with global teams across multiple time zones.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and ownership mindset.
Willingness to work from the Bangalore ITPL office, 5 days a week.

Good to Have

Experience with AI/GenAI concepts and AIOps practices.
Exposure to chaos engineering and resilience testing.
Azure (AZ-104/AZ-400), CKA, or CKAD certifications.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.

Key Skills

Kubernetes
Docker
Helm
Azure DevOps
Jenkins
Terraform
Ansible
JFrog Artifactory
Prometheus
Grafana
Loki
OpenTelemetry
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
Python/Go/Bash
SLIs/SLOs
Incident Management
RCA
Networking & Security.

What We Believe

We’re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we’ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion and to place people at the centre of everything we do.

Humility

We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity

Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity

We honour our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.