Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Headout; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Bengaluru is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. This role involves optimizing CI/CD workflows, improving deployment reliability, and enhancing observability and incident management. Ideal candidates should have 2–5 years of experience, strong Kubernetes skills, and a high-ownership mindset. This position offers the opportunity to significantly influence platform and tooling decisions while mentoring junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience operating customer-facing services at scale.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes cluster operations.
• Experience with service mesh and distributed tracing tools.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
• Design and optimize CI/CD workflows for deployment reliability.
• Drive observability, incident management, and performance improvements.

Skills

Kubernetes cluster operations

Cloud provider experience

Monitoring and alerting stacks

Python programming

Service mesh tools

Infrastructure as Code

Security best practices

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

AWS

Job description

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will own and operate cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms that power customer-facing services at scale. You will design and optimize CI/CD workflows, improve deployment reliability, and drive observability, incident management, and performance improvements across the organization. You will build platform tooling to improve developer velocity, enforce security guardrails, and standardize best practices. This role expects strong ownership, architectural thinking, and mentorship of junior engineers.

🤩 What makes this role special

• Full Platform Exposure – Work across DevOps, infrastructure, observability, performance, and reliability
• Architecture Ownership – Influence platform and tooling decisions using benchmarks and metrics
• High Impact – Build systems that reduce deployment TAT, improve p99s, and scale across teams
• Flexibility – Freedom to work across stacks, tools, and evolving platforms

💝 What skills & experience do you nee

• 2–5 years of experience operating customer-facing services at scale
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes cluster operations and workload optimization
• Experience with service mesh and distributed tracing tools (e.g., Istio, Jaeger)
• Comfortable with at least one cloud provider (AWS preferred; GCP or Azure acceptable)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, Datadog, New Relic)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Pulumi)
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or Java/Kotlin, plus shell scripting
• Experience with databases such as MySQL and MongoDB, including application and query profiling
• Solid understanding of security best practices and compliance
• High-ownership mindset with the ability to proactively identify and resolve platform issues