Senior Site Reliability Engineer

ZEISS Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

ZEISS India is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to bridge Development, Cloud Platform Engineering, and Product Owners across Digital Offerings. You will define SRE concepts, align service quality with business objectives, and ensure reliability and observability.

Role focuses on building scalable, fault-tolerant systems, setting up monitoring and CI/CD pipelines, and driving incident response and disaster recovery planning within a dynamic, cross-functional team.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with SRE practices and reliability engineering.
• Experience building observability dashboards and alerting.
• Experience with incident response and post-mortems.
• Familiarity with cloud-based systems and disaster recovery planning.

Responsibilities

• Define and measures the reliability of the service using SLI and SLOs.
• Enable development teams to push software to production quickly while meeting SLAs.
• Define and drive observability for software and cloud components.
• Build Playbooks and Runbooks for troubleshooting.
• Set up CI/CD pipelines for continuous deployment.
• Monitor systems, respond to incidents, and perform post-incident reviews.
• Create documentation for systems, processes, and disaster recovery.

Skills

SRE concepts

Observability

CI/CD pipelines

Incident management

Disaster recovery planning

Communication

Cloud platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry Collector

Terraform

Job description

ZEISS in India

ZEISS in India is headquartered in Bengaluru and present in the fields of Industrial Quality Solutions, Research Microscopy Solutions, Medical Technology, Vision Care and Sports & Cine Optics.

ZEISS India has 3 production facilities, R&D center, Global IT services and about 40 Sales & Service offices in almost all Tier I and Tier II cities in India. With 2200+ employees and continued investments over 25 years in India, ZEISS’ success story in India is continuing at a rapid pace.

Further information at ZEISS India.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will bridge the gap between Development, Cloud Platform Engineering Team and Product Owners of different Digital Offerings. Define the SRE-concepts, align the service quality with the business objectives and user expectations:

What you will do:

• Define and measures the reliability of the service using SLI, SLOs and consider the risk minimization of service degradation.
• Enable the development team to bring new software or new features to production as quickly as possible, while also ensuring an agreed-upon acceptable level of IT operations performance and error risk in line with the service level agreements (SLAs) agreed.
• Define and drive observability for self-developed software and the managed cloud components by collecting appropriate observability data for insights and alerting including setting up proper alerting for critical components.
• Ensure availability and responsiveness of application by setting up and maintaining the required documentation method and tools. Building Playbooks, Runbooks for troubleshooting techniques to effectively identify and investigate issues.
• Setup automation and CI/CD Pipelines for continuously deploying software applications using the best practices and review them for improvement.
• Monitor systems for performance and reliability, respond to incidents, and conduct post-incident reviews to identify root causes and improve system resilience.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for systems, processes, disaster recovery plans, and procedures.
• In-depth knowledge of system architecture, networking, and distributed systems.
• Expertise in designing and implementing reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring, alerting, and logging systems for early detection and resolution of issues for container orchestrators like Kubernetes using Tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry Collector or similar tools.
• Hands-on experience in incident management, including incident response, troubleshooting, and post-mortem analysis.
• Proficiency in coding/scripting languages commonly used in infrastructure automation and monitoring (such as Terraform).
• Familiar with deployment process and strategies.
• Knowledge of best practices in disaster recovery planning and execution for cloud based Systems.
• Capability to advocate for SRE best practices and principles within the organization and drive cultural changes as needed.
• Willingness to stay updated with the latest trends, tools, and technologies in the field of site reliability engineering.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers, Product Owners, and Cloud Platform Engineers.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Saptarshi Chowdhury, Sultana Mehzabin