Senior SRE Engineer

Epam Systems; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Epam Systems in Chennai, India seeks a Senior SRE Engineer for a full-time, in-office role to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud infrastructure and services.

The candidate will design high-availability strategies, manage cloud infrastructure with IaC, implement CI/CD, and drive automation and cross-team collaborations. Strong AWS, Kubernetes, and scripting skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 4–8 years of IT experience with SRE/DevOps or Cloud Infra roles
• Strong AWS, Terraform, and CI/CD experience
• Proficient in scripting (Python/Bash/Go) and container orchestration

Responsibilities

• Design high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for critical workloads
• Build and manage cloud infra using Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
• Monitor system performance and reliability via observability platforms
• Develop scripts and automation tools to streamline operations
• Ensure networking, security, and IAM are robust in cloud envs
• Lead cross-team collaboration to resolve reliability challenges
• Drive improvements in infrastructure and platform automation

Skills

Site Reliability

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Monitoring

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Networking/Security IAM

Leadership/Communication

Education

B.E./B.Tech in CS/IT

Tools

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Terraform

Ansible

CloudWatch

Job description

We are seeking a Senior SRE Engineer to join our team on a full-time, in-office basis, responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical cloud infrastructure and services.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for critical workloads
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tools
• Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
• Monitor system performance and reliability through observability platforms
• Develop scripts and automation tools to streamline operations
• Ensure robust networking, security, and identity/access management practices
• Lead cross-team collaboration to resolve complex reliability challenges
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across infrastructure and platform automation

Requirements

• 4-8 years of overall experience in IT
• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
• Expertise in AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, and Lambda
• Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation
• Background in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and ECS/EKS
• Competency in monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and CloudWatch
• Skills in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
• Understanding of networking, security, and identity/access management in cloud environments
• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams

Nice to have

• AWS or other Cloud Certification such as Solutions Architect or DevOps Engineer
• Familiarity with AIOps, Serverless Architectures, and event-driven systems
• Understanding of FinOps practices and cost optimization frameworks, along with SaaS monitoring tools such as Sumo Logic and PagerDuty
• Exposure to Atlassian tools including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, plus experience with SQL/NoSQL databases
• Showcase of leading cross-functional reliability initiatives or platform-wide automation projects