Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Aura Recruitment Solutions; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 450,000 - 750,000; Full time

Job summary

Aura Recruitment Solutions is seeking a Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for a remote role based in India. You will design, build, and maintain robust cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and high-availability platforms.

Key focus areas include AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and observability tools. You will collaborate with software, data, and security teams to improve platform reliability, automation, and scalability, while driving DevSecOps and cost optimization

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Infrastructure experience.
• Deep expertise in AWS or Azure public cloud services and architecture.
• Strong experience with Docker and production Kubernetes administration.
• Proficiency in Terraform for IaC.
• Hands-on CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Container Orchestration: Manage production-grade Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) clusters, helm charts, container runtimes, and ingress controllers.
• CI/CD Automation: Design, optimize, and secure automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement enterprise monitoring, log aggregation, and tracing systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK Stack.
• Reliability & Incident Management: Own system uptime, define SLOs/SLIs, maintain incident response protocols, and lead post-mortem RCA.
• Security & Compliance: Enforce DevSecOps best practices, secret management (HashiCorp Vault/Key Vault), IAM policies, and cloud vulnerability scanning.
• Cost & Performance Optimization: Audit cloud resource utilization, implement autoscaling strategies, and optimize cloud spending.

Skills

DevOps

SRE

Cloud architecture

Python

Bash

Go

Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

CloudFormation

Ansible

HashiCorp Vault

Key Vault

Job description

Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Description

This is a remote position.

Location: India

Work Mode: Remote

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience:5+ Years

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and maintain robust cloud infrastructure, automated CI/CD pipelines, and high-availability operational platforms. The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on expertise in AWS/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Jenkins), and observability frameworks (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK).

In this role, you will work closely with software engineering, data, and security teams to drive platform reliability, infrastructure automation, developer efficiency, and system scalability.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Provision, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Container Orchestration: Manage production-grade Kubernetes (EKS/AKS) clusters, helm charts, container runtimes, and ingress controllers.

CI/CD Automation: Design, optimize, and secure automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.

Observability & Monitoring: Implement enterprise monitoring, log aggregation, and tracing systems using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK Stack.

Reliability & Incident Management: Own system uptime, define SLOs/SLIs, maintain incident response protocols, and lead post-mortem root cause analyses (RCA).

Security & Compliance: Enforce DevSecOps best practices, secret management (HashiCorp Vault/Key Vault), IAM policies, and cloud vulnerability scanning.

Cost & Performance Optimization: Audit cloud resource utilization, implement autoscaling strategies, and optimize cloud spending.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.

Cloud Architecture: Deep expertise in AWS or Azure public cloud services and architecture.

Containerization & Orchestration: Strong experience with Docker and production Kubernetes administration.

Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency in Terraform for declarative infrastructure provisioning.

CI/CD: Hands-on experience building multi-environment CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.

Scripting: Strong scripting capabilities in Python, Bash, or Go for operational automation.

Monitoring & Alerting: Solid background in setting up metrics, dashboards, and alerts via Prometheus and Grafana.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd), GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux), and Serverless infrastructure.

Familiarity with DevSecOps integrations (SonarQube, Trivy, Snyk).

About Our Client

About Our Client

Our client is an innovative financial technology platform headquartered in London, UK, delivering global payment rails, real-time transaction clearing, and open-banking API infrastructure. Operating under strict regulatory standards across European, APAC, and Americas markets, the organization prioritizes high availability, zero-downtime deployments, and robust security protocols.

Their engineering culture centers around a strong DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) discipline, where automated chaos engineering, proactive observability, and self-healing infrastructure are core priorities. They foster a collaborative, blameless post-mortem environment where engineers have high ownership over system uptime, performance benchmarks, and modern multi-cloud deployment strategies.