Senior Specialist - Cloud SRE - AWS/IaC

Datavail; Mumbai; On-site; INR 400,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavail invites an experienced Senior Specialist - Cloud SRE to drive reliability engineering across multi-cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) in Mumbai. You will lead incident response, define SLIs/SLOs, and shape architecture for high availability. The role emphasizes automation, IaC, and mentoring teams to deliver resilient, scalable services.

You will collaborate with customer teams, ensure security and compliance, and implement robust monitoring and CI/CD practices to support critical workloads.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in SRE/Cloud operations
• Hands-on expertise in AWS and Azure multi-cloud environments
• Strong skills in incident management and postmortems
• Proficiency in IaC and automation using Terraform/CloudFormation

Responsibilities

• Lead incident response and postmortems, ensuring corrective actions.
• Tier 3 escalation point for offshore/onshore SRE teams.
• Perform RCA and validate work quality of Tier-2 engineers.
• Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs, monitor error budgets.
• Contribute to architecture discussions for high availability and DR.
• Automate infrastructure and operations with IaC tools.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with canary and blue/green deployments.
• Implement observability with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Jaeger.
• Manage multi-cloud infrastructure including IAM, networking, and security controls.
• Mentor Tier 2/junior SREs and maintain runbooks.

Skills

Multi-cloud operations

SRE

Automation

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS

Azure

CI/CD

Observability

Incident response

RCA

Education

Any Graduate

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Jaeger

Job description

Job Title: Senior Specialist - Cloud SRE

Educations: Any Graduate

Experience: 10 to 15years

Location: Mumbai

Key Skills: Experienced Senior SRE Engineer with 10-15 years of expertise in multi-cloud operations (AWS, Azure), reliability engineering, automation, and large-scale infrastructure management. Skilled in incident response, SLIs/SLOs, observability, CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), cloud security, cost optimization, and architecting highly available and scalable systems. Strong customer leadership, problem-solving, and mentoring abilities with a focus on automation-first and resilience-driven engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Customer Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for assigned customer accounts.

• Provide regular updates and lead initiatives to improve customer environments.

• Be highly familiar with assigned accounts to make tactical decisions without escalation.

• Collaborate with customer development teams to align infrastructure with application requirements.

Incident & Problem Management:

• Lead incident response and postmortems, ensuring corrective and preventive measures.

• Be the Tier 3 escalation point for offshore/onshore SRE teams.

• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and validate work quality of Tier-2 engineers.

• Develop and maintain incident response plans for security breaches and operational incidents.

Reliability Engineering:

• Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs, track error budgets, and monitor alignment.

• Participate in architecture discussions for high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability.

• Integrate resilience patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, and bulkheading.

• Use chaos engineering / fault injection practices where applicable.

• Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Automate infrastructure and operations tasks using Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with canary deployments and blue/green strategies.

• Implement automation workflows with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, Azure Functions.

Monitoring & Observability:

• Implement observability systems: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Jaeger.

• Configure proactive monitoring and alerts using AWS CloudWatch / Azure Monitor.

• Ensure visibility into metrics, traces, and logs for troubleshooting.

Cloud Infrastructure Management:

• Provision and manage VMs, storage, networking, VPNs, and ExpressRoute/Peering.

• Manage patching, backups, encryption, decryption, and image management.

• Optimize performance and cost via rightsizing, autoscaling, and reserved instances.

• Manage identity and access controls (AWS IAM, Azure AD, RBAC).

Security & Compliance:

• Implement and enforce security best practices across multi-cloud environments.

• Ensure compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and industry regulations.

• Conduct regular audits and compliance reporting.

Mentoring & Knowledge Sharing:

• Coach and mentor Tier 2 and junior SREs.

• Conduct reliability-focused design reviews.

• Maintain up-to-date documentation, runbooks, and SOPs.