Senior Team Lead | Site Reliability Engineering | Bengaluru | Engineering

Deloitte & Touche GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte & Touche GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft is seeking a Senior Team Lead in Bengaluru to drive Site Reliability Engineering for critical, distributed systems. You will own end-to-end reliability, scalability and performance while coordinating with cross-functional teams in a 24x7 on-call model.

The role requires deep cloud expertise (AWS), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and strong automation using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tooling to reduce MTTR and improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Engineering.
• 5–8 years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Cloud Engineering.
• Hands-on experience managing production-grade systems (24x7).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end production systems reliability, availability, scalability, cost and performance.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and handle high-severity incidents.
• Design, deploy and manage infrastructure on AWS.
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Terraform.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub

Python

Shell scripting

Dynatrace

Grafana

BigQuery

Pub/Sub

Canary

Blue-Green

Java

Golang

TCP/IP

SLI/SLO/SLA

MTTR/MTTA

Education

Bachelors in Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub

Docker

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Job Title: Senior Team Lead | Site Reliability Engineering | Bengaluru | Engineering

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• We are looking for a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to manage and scale mission-critical, production-grade distributed systems running on AWS. The ideal candidate will focus on reliability, automation, observability, and operational excellence while minimizing toil and improving system availability. Maintaining and improving 4 Nines of uptime to 5 Nines with engineering efforts.
• This role requires deep technical expertise in cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, Linux administration and TCP/IP fundamentals, programming in one language and strong troubleshooting capabilities for distributed systems. The candidate needs to participate in the overall lifecycle management of mission critical banking services with a 24x7 operations mode in an rotational on-call basis. The job requires the candidate to have strong troubleshooting skills in a distributed environment spread across multiple cloud environments. The bare minimum ask would be to maintain high level of agility, learnability and adaptability in different scenarios. An engineer with a zeal to learn fast and having a bias for action would be the best fit for the role.
• Education-Bachelors in Engineering
• Reliability & Operations
• Own end-to-end production systems reliability, availability, scalability, cost and performance.
• Drive measurable improvements in MTTR, MTTA, and incident response practices using automation and runbook additions and process enhancements.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations and handle high-severity incidents and document the learnings on ongoing basis.
• Establish and manage SLI, SLO, SLA, Error Budgets, and operational metrics for mission critical services and partner with engineering teams with full accountability for upholding the SLOs.
• Partner with the various engineering, operations and cloud management teams to deliver highly reliable service in a timely manner.
• Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure on AWS
• Work extensively on:
• Compute, networking, IAM, Load Balancers, TLS Certs
• BigQuery, Pub/Sub, cloud logging enhancement, metrics and logs analysis
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Terraform (Infrastructure as Code).
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Kubernetes.
• Troubleshoot issues related to:
• Pods, nodes, networking, storage, services on an ongoing basis
• Manage deployments using Helm, YAML, and rollout strategies (Canary/Blue-Green).
• Automation & CI/CD
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using:
• Jenkins (pipeline-based, Groovy / Shell / Python scripting)
• Strong experience in using GitHub as a PowerUser
• Develop automation using Python and Shell scripting.
• Reduce operational toil through automation initiatives.
• Observability & Monitoring
• Implement and manage monitoring systems using:
• Dynatrace, Grafana, logs and metrics explorer
• Work with logs, metrics, and traces for deep observability to identify trends and arrest problems proactively.
• Define alerting strategies based on system behaviour and SLOs and create runbooks.
• Work alongside operations teams to identify, fix the production incidents and own the problem resolution.
• Work with engineering teams to isolate infra and application issues and set up right tooling for debugging production incidents.
• System & Application Troubleshooting
• Distributed systems
• Microservices-based architectures on containerised workloads
• Java and Golang applications
• Application issues
• Infrastructure issues
• Network-related problems
• Plan and execute continuous improvement
• Identify and eliminate repetitive manual tasks.
• Drive reliability engineering practices and culture. (DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself)
• Collaborate with development teams to improve system design and resilience.
• Experience
• 5-8 years of relevant and progressive experience in SRE / DevOps / Cloud Engineering
• Hands‑on experience managing production‑grade systems (24x7 environments)
• Technical Skills
• Strong expertise in AWS
• Kubernetes Engine, VPC, IAM, Load Balancing, LB, Certs, KMS, logs and metrics exploration
• BigQuery, Pub/Sub
• Good understanding of cloud architecture and landing zones
• Infrastructure as Code
• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform
• Ability to write and debug Terraform code from scratch
• Containers & Orchestration
• Deep expertise in:
• Docker
• Strong troubleshooting experience in Kubernetes environments
• CI/CD & Automation
• Hands‑on experience with:
• Jenkins (pipeline-based CI/CD)
• GitHub
• Python (preferred)
• Shell scripting
• Experience with automation frameworks and tooling
• Observability
• Experience with:
• Dynatrace / Grafana
• Log, metrics, and trace‑based monitoring
• Working knowledge of:
• Java and/or Golang applications
• Strong debugging skills across application and infrastructure layers
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP networking
• Ability to debug network issues in distributed system
• Reliability Engineering Skills
• Solid understanding of:
• SLI, SLO, SLA, Error Budgets
• Demonstrable and Proven Experience improving:
• MTTR, MTTA
• Experience handling incident management lifecycle
• Soft Skills
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to work in high‑pressure production environments
• Ownership‑driven and proactive approach
• Preferred Qualifications
• Exposure to banking/financial domain (optional but valuable)
• Understanding of security and compliance practices
• Experience with deployment strategies:
• Canary, Blue‑Green
• Ideal Candidate Profile in summary would be like :
• Hands‑on production troubleshooting expert
• Good at automation + reducing toil
• Deep understanding of SRE principles
• Comfortable in 24x7 production environments