Site Reliability Engineer

Happiest Minds Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Happiest Minds Technologies in Bengaluru is seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to own and operate enterprise-grade services with strict uptime commitments. You will define SLOs/SLIs, manage incidents, and drive cloud platform administration across distributed microservices.

The role emphasizes hands-on duties in Kubernetes environments, service mesh experience, and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams to sustain reliability at scale.

Qualifications

• 8–11 years in SRE/DevOps/Platform/Production Eng.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale production environments.
• Ownership of services with 99.9%+ uptime commitments.
• Experience creating and managing SLOs and Error Budgets.
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes-based production systems.
• Experience handling Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
• Hands-on cloud platform administration experience.
• Defining SLOs & SLIs
• Experience with service mesh

Responsibilities

• Own and operate services with high availability targets.
• Create, monitor and manage SLOs and error budgets.
• Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes-based production environments.
• Respond to Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents with rapid remediation.
• Design for distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on cloud platform administration and governance.
• Support adoption and operation of service mesh.

Skills

SRE

DevOps

Reliability Eng

Kubernetes

SLOs & Budgets

Incident Mgmt

Distributed Systems

Cloud Admin

Service Mesh

Tools

Datadog

Istio

Terraform

AWS

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• 8 to 11 years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Production Engineering.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale production environments.
• Proven ownership of services with 99.9%+ uptime commitments.
• Demonstrated experience creating and managing SLOs and Error Budgets.
• Deep troubleshooting expertise in Kubernetes-based production systems.
• Experience handling Sev-1 and Sev-2 incidents.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Hands-on cloud platform administration experience.
• Defining SLOs & SLIs
• Have experience in Service mesh
• Exposure to observability tool Datadog (good to have)

Deal Breaker Skill

Reliability Analysis

Mandatory Skills

Site Reliability Engineering| DevOps| Reliability Engineering

Desirable Skills

Ansible, Reliability Analysis, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Istio, AWS S3