Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Tekskills Inc.; Dadri; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekskills Inc. is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and run highly available, Kubernetes-based systems in Bangalore. The role emphasizes reliability, observability, and automation across cloud platforms.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, lead incident responses, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with multiple teams to improve system resilience and performance.

Qualifications

• Design and maintain highly available, resilient systems in Kubernetes.
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Lead incident response, RCA, and postmortems.
• Automate reliability improvements via tooling and scripts.
• Architect observability platforms for metrics, logs, traces.
• Work with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/OpenSearch.
• Deploy services with Helm; manage Docker containers.
• Build infrastructure on GCP or AWS; operate Kubernetes (GKE).
• Collaborate across engineering teams; mentor juniors.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Kubernetes

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Docker

Python

CI/CD

SLO/SLI

Incident response

GCP

AWS

Tools

Helm

GKE

Terraform

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