Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability

Synthlane Technologies Private Limited; Gurgaon; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Synthlane Technologies Private Limited is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of highly available systems across multi-cloud environments (AWS and Azure).

You will drive architectural decisions, establish reliability standards, and mentor teams while ensuring operational excellence across complex distributed systems. Strong emphasis on automation, observability, and scalable deployment strategies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of proven experience as an SRE or similar role.
• Deep expertise in multi-cloud infrastructure with AWS/Azure.
• Strong IaC and automation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement reliable, scalable multi-cloud infrastructure.
• Define SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
• Develop IaC using Terraform/Ansible and ARM/Bicep templates.
• Drive automation to reduce toil and enable self-service for devs.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Champion cloud-native reliability practices and platform standards.
• Oversee on-call, runbooks, and knowledge repositories.

Skills

SRE experience

Incident response

Automation

Python scripting

Observability

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Azure ARM/Bicep

Kubernetes (AKS/EKS)

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Azure Monitor

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Job description

Synthlane Technologies Private Limited | Full time

Senior Software Engineer - Site Reliability

We are seeking an accomplished Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead the

design, implementation, and evolution of highly available, scalable, and resilient systems

across our multi-cloud infrastructure. In this senior role, you will drive architectural

decisions, establish reliability standards, and mentor teams while ensuring operational

excellence across complex distributed systems. You will partner with engineering

leadership, development teams, and product stakeholders to shape infrastructure

strategy, implement sophisticated automation, and champion a culture of reliability

engineering. As a Senior SRE, you'll tackle sophisticated, large-scale challenges using cutting-edge

technologies across AWS and Azure platforms. You will lead critical initiatives that

impact system reliability at scale, architect solutions for complex infrastructure problems,

and guide teams in adopting industry-leading practices that drive meaningful

improvements across our entire technology ecosystem.

Requirements

• Architect and implement highly reliable, scalable, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions for mission-critical applications across multi-cloud environments (AWS and
• Lead the definition and refinement of service level objectives (SLOs), service level indicators (SLIs), and error budgets, establishing reliability standards across the organization.
• Design and implement sophisticated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Ansible, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates or Bicep.
• Drive automation strategies to eliminate toil, improve operational efficiency, and enable self-service capabilities for development teams.
• Lead incident response efforts, conduct thorough post-incident reviews, and implement systemic improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Champion cloud-native architectures and modern reliability practices, serving as a technical advisor for infrastructure and platform decisions.
• Participate in and help optimize the on-call rotation, ensuring sustainable practices and
• Establish and maintain comprehensive documentation standards, runbooks, and knowledge repositories that enable team autonomy and effective incident response.
• Design and implement advanced monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies using observability platforms to enable proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Lead container orchestration initiatives using Kubernetes (AKS, EKS) and implement sophisticated deployment strategies including blue-green, canary, and progressive delivery patterns.
• Ensure security, compliance, and governance standards are embedded throughout the infrastructure lifecycle, implementing security-as-code practices.
• Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost management initiatives
• Collaborate with architecture and security teams to establish platform standards, reference architectures, and best practices.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 5+ years of proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role, with demonstrated expertise in designing, implementing, and operating large-scale, distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Ansible, including module development, state management, and multi-environment orchestration.
• Extensive hands-on experience with both AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including advanced services, networking, and security features in both environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of container orchestration with Kubernetes, including implementations, and production-scale cluster management.
• Advanced proficiency in Linux system administration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting complex system-level issues.
• Proven experience implementing GitOps workflows using ArgoCD, Flux, or similar tools, including advanced deployment patterns and progressive delivery.
• Deep understanding of observability principles and hands-on experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Azure Monitor, or the ELK stack.
• Expert knowledge of networking concepts, including load balancing, CDNs, DNS, VPNs, service mesh architectures, and distributed systems communication patterns.
• Strong programming and scripting capabilities in Python, Bash, Go, or PowerShell, with the ability to develop custom tooling and automation frameworks.
• Extensive experience designing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or CircleCI.
• Demonstrated ability to lead incident response, conduct root cause analysis, and drive systemic reliability improvements.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with proven ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels.
• Current certification in AWS (Solutions Architect Associate/Professional or equivalent) and Azure (Azure Administrator or Azure Solutions Architect), with practical experience managing production workloads on both platforms.

Good To Have

• Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud networking strategies, including ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, and cloud interconnects.
• Knowledge of serverless architectures on AWS (Lambda) and Azure (Functions, Logic Apps) and their operational considerations.
• Proven experience with disaster recovery planning, business continuity, and implementing multi-region active-active architectures.
• Understanding of machine learning operations (MLOps), data pipeline orchestration, and
• Experience with service mesh technologies such as Istio, Linkerd, or Consul.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering principles and tools like Chaos Monkey or Gremlin.
• Experience with configuration management at scale and policy-as-code tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA).
• Knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies.

Why Work at Synthlane?

Real production infrastructure exposure (not just toy tasks). Work closely with engineers building real solutions and client deployments. Learn what “high reliability” actually means in production. Fast-paced, high-impact environment where good work is noticed quickly.