Site Reliability Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

TCS in Bengaluru, Chennai, and Hyderabad is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer with 6–10 years of experience. You will build and operate cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform, manage Kubernetes (GKE), and drive IaC with Terraform.

Experience with CI/CD and SRE concepts is essential. The role encompasses incident management, monitoring, capacity planning, and reliability improvements for large-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Hands-on with GCP and cloud-native platforms.
• Strong Kubernetes (GKE) and IaC experience.
• Proficient in Terraform and CI/CD tooling.
• Solid understanding of SRE concepts, SLIs/SLOs.
• Experience with incident management and monitoring.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and support cloud-native platforms on GCP.
• Manage Kubernetes environments with deployments, ingress, and scaling.
• Develop IaC using Terraform and automate deployments.
• Own services through production readiness and incident management.
• Implement observability using Dynatrace or OpenTelemetry.
• Collaborate with vendors and teams to ensure reliability.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes/GKE

CI/CD tooling

SRE concepts

Incident management

Observability

Education

15 years of full-time education

Tools

Terraform

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

PostgreSQL

AlloyDB

Istio

Job description

TCS Hiring for Site Reliability Engineer

Experience Range: - 06 To 10 Years (Mandatory)

(Note: Candidates below 6 years of IT experience shall not be considered)

Job Locations : Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad

JOB DESCRIPTION

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer.
• Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, preferably GKE.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience with CI/CD tools and platform automation.
• Strong understanding of SRE concepts including: SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Automation, Toil Reduction, Operational Readiness
• Experience managing production services, incident management, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and resilience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, networking, security, and applications.
• Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems and business-critical platforms.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Kafka and Confluent Platform.
• Experience with PostgreSQL and AlloyDB.
• Experience with Istio and service mesh technologies.
• Banking or Core Banking domain experience.
• Experience with Thought Machine Vault.
• Experience in GCP operations, cloud cost optimization, and FinOps practices.
• Understanding of operational resilience, security, risk, and compliance in regulated environments.
• Experience working with strategic technology suppliers and managed service providers.
• Experience coaching engineering teams on cloud platform standards and SRE best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, operate, and support cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Manage and maintain Kubernetes environments, preferably Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), including deployments, ingress, networking, scaling, upgrades, troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to automate platform build, deployment, configuration, and operational processes.
• Own services throughout their lifecycle, including production readiness, change delivery, incident management, problem management, monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, resilience, and continual improvement.
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles including automation, toil reduction, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, operational readiness, and reliability improvement.
• Troubleshoot issues across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, networking, security, integration services, applications, and platform services.
• Implement and support observability solutions using Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent tools.
• Support cloud-native platform and data services including Kafka, PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, and related technologies.
• Work with Istio and service mesh technologies to support secure and scalable service-to-service communication.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, technology vendors, and managed service providers to ensure operational excellence.
• Drive cloud platform standards, SRE best practices, and continuous service improvement.

15 years of Full Time Education