Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Tekskills Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills Inc. in Bengaluru, India, invites applications for a Senior SRE role. You will design and maintain highly available systems in Kubernetes, define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident response, and drive reliability through automation.

You’ll architect observability platforms, monitor via Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry, and manage GCP/AWS infrastructure with Helm and Docker. You will mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and collaborate across teams to improve service reliability

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in SRE/DevOps or related field.
• Experience with Kubernetes-based environments and cloud platforms (GCP preferred).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, resilient systems in Kubernetes.
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
• Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems.
• Drive reliability improvements through automation.
• Architect and operate observability platforms (metrics, logs, traces, alerts).
• Work with Prometheus, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki/OpenSearch.
• Implement cloud-native monitoring (GCP preferred).
• Establish actionable alerting standards.
• Build infrastructure on GCP (preferred) or AWS; operate GKE clusters.
• Deploy services with Helm; manage Docker workloads.
• Develop automation tooling with Python; integrate CI/CD with observability checks.
• Mentor junior engineers; influence architecture; collaborate across teams.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Automation mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

GKE

Docker

Helm

Prometheus

Alertmanager

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Loki

ELK/OpenSearch

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Role: Senior SRE

Experience: 6-10 years

Location: Bangalore

Roles & Responsibilities

Reliability & Operations

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient systems in Kubernetes-based environments
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems
• Drive reliability improvements through automation

Observability (Core Focus)

• Architect and operate observability platforms for metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• Work with Prometheus, Alertmanager, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki / ELK / OpenSearch
• Implement cloud-native monitoring (GCP Cloud Monitoring & Logging preferred)
• Establish actionable alerting standards

Cloud & Platform Engineering

• Build and manage infrastructure on GCP (preferred) or AWS
• Operate Kubernetes clusters (GKE preferred)
• Deploy services using Helm
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker

Automation & Tooling

• Strong Python skills with emphasis on reliability, automation, and observability tooling
• Develop automation and tooling using Python
• Create internal reliability and monitoring tools
• Integrate CI/CD pipelines with observability and reliability checks

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentor junior engineers
• Influence architecture decisions
• Collaborate across engineering teams