Site Reliability Engineer

Sabre; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabre in Bengaluru is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to support the PNR SRE Team. The role focuses on stability, reliability, automated delivery, and scaling the Reservations suite, working across the US, Poland, and India.

You will own on-call shifts, lead incident investigations, build monitoring in GCP and observability tools, reduce toil through automation, and assist with CI/CD, PCI audits, capacity planning and prod readiness. Strong English and a learning mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and cloud-native reliability engineering.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis abilities.
• Collaborative mindset across distributed teams.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, container orchestration, and monitoring tools.
• Proficiency in Linux/UNIX, Terraform, and shell scripting.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-call support (8-12 hour shifts) and handle alerts for Sabre services.
• Lead incident investigations and coordinate with cross-functional teams.
• Review and monitor changes to ensure stability and mitigate risk.
• Build and improve alerting/monitoring in GCP and other tools.
• Promote reliability through blameless postmortems and SLIs.
• Assist development partners with CI/CD pipelines and prod readiness.
• Own services' reliability, manage infrastructure lifecycle, PCI audits, capacity, and cost.
• Provide mentorship and guidance on reliability practices.

Skills

GCP knowledge

CI/CD concepts

Docker/Kubernetes

Linux/UNIX

Monitoring/Observability

Incident management

English communication

Problem solving

Tools

Jenkins

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

AppDynamics

Google Cloud Ops

Elastic Search

Job description

Sabre is seeking a talented Site Reliability Engineer to support the PNR SRE Team in Bangalore. This team supports the operations of the "Reservations" suite of products at Sabre and is globally distributed across US, Poland and India. We are looking for a team member to join this team and be focused on ensuring the stability and reliability of the services, automated delivery, increasing velocity of releases, and working with us on incorporating best practices, high quality and ensuring overall great customer experience for Sabre customers. The team member must practice SRE principles and should strive to reduce toil and treat reliability as a feature. This role will report to the team manager.

Role And Responsibilities

• Provide application on-call support (8-12-hour shifts, one week at a time), responding to system alerts/pages, troubleshooting issues, and taking action when needed.
• Participate on incident bridges and lead investigation of severe issues affecting customer experience.
• Review, execute, validate and monitor changes to ensure stability and risk are addressed
• Build alerting and monitoring solutions for new or existing services in GCP, and other observability tools.
• Continuously improve reliability by engaging in SRE practices such as blameless postmortems, building SLIs for CUJs, reducing toil and increasing automation.
• Support development partners with infrastructure deployments, ci-cd pipelines, and other non-functional requirements to be prod-ready
• Take ownership of services, addressing risks, and keeping up with other KTLO tasks including managing infrastructure currency, PCI audits, capacity monitoring, and cost optimization.
• Provides technical mentorship and cultural/competency-based guidance to teams.

Qualifications And Education Requirements

• Google Cloud Platform knowledge
• Analysis, debugging and troubleshooting skills, persistence in problem solving
• Good collaboration within the team and with teams up and across the organization
• Understanding of CI/CD concepts
• Familiarity with Jenkins
• Understanding of container orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Linux/UNIX knowledge, Terraform, shell scripting, networking
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools: AppDynamics, Google Cloud ops, Data dog, Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic search
• Experience with Change Management process
• Very good written and verbal English communication skills
• Willingness to learn
• Self-disciplined and commitment oriented

Nice To Have Skills

• Understanding of databases (relational, Oracle, Couchbase, Datastore, Spanner)
• Java development experience
• Experience with Sabre Change Management process, Service Now, runbooks
• Google SRE knowledge