Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Hilabs; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,200,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Hilabs is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE Focus) to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure in AWS. The role emphasizes reliable, production‑grade Kubernetes, IaC, and CI/CD automation.

You will collaborate with engineering teams to improve system performance, security, and incident response in a fast‑paced environment. The ideal candidate has 5–9 years of DevOps/SRE experience, strong scripting skills, and hands‑on expertise with monitoring and observability tools.

Qualifications

• 5–9 years of DevOps/SRE experience required.
• Hands‑on AWS and Kubernetes with production systems.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Build and maintain scalable Kubernetes environments.
• Implement IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

CI/CD automation

Linux

Shell scripting / Python

Monitoring (ELK/Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch)

Git/Bitbucket workflows

Job description

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (SRE Focus)

Experience: 5 to 9 Years

Location: Manyata Tech Park, Bangalore(Work from Office)

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience to join our growing engineering team. The ideal candidate should have hands‑on expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, and production reliability engineering.

This role requires someone who can design, automate, deploy, monitor, and optimize large‑scale cloud‑native environments while ensuring high availability, scalability, security, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Build and maintain scalable Kubernetes environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and incident management.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve system reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Manage production incidents, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost, security, and performance.
• Support containerized applications and microservices architectures.
• Maintain and improve deployment workflows using Git and Bitbucket.
• Contribute to SRE best practices including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Mandatory Skills

• 5 to 9 years of DevOps / SRE experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS.
• Production‑grade Kubernetes (K8s) experience.
• Expertise in Terraform.
• Experience with AWS CloudFormation.
• Strong Jenkins pipeline creation and administration experience.
• CI/CD implementation and automation expertise.
• Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Shell Scripting, Bash, or Python.
• Monitoring and logging tools such as ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, etc.
• Experience handling production environments and critical incidents.

Preferred Skills

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience.
• Bitbucket administration and pipeline integration.
• Docker and containerization technologies.
• Azure cloud exposure.
• Security, compliance, and infrastructure governance experience.
• Experience working in Agile environments.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong hands‑on engineer, not a people manager.
• Experience supporting large‑scale production environments.
• Proven expertise in reliability engineering and operational excellence.
• Startup or product company experience preferred.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Nice to Have

• AWS Certifications.
• Kubernetes Certifications.
• Azure exposure.
• Experience in healthcare, fintech, SaaS, or product‑based organizations.