Site Reliability Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and evolve cloud platforms on GCP. You will design, deploy, and operate highly available GKE-based infrastructures, implement IaC with Terraform, automate CI/CD pipelines, and drive observability and incident management across production environments.

The role requires 8–12 years of hands-on experience, strong collaboration with Engineering, DevOps, and Security teams, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of relevant experience.
• Strong GCP and Kubernetes fundamentals.
• Experience with Terraform and IaC.
• CI/CD and automation expertise.
• Observability and incident management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage highly available cloud infrastructure on GCP.
• Deploy and optimize workloads on Compute Engine, VPC, and GKE.
• Ensure platform scalability and reliability across environments.
• Develop container lifecycle management and cluster governance.
• Build monitoring and incident response processes.

Skills

GCP Expertise

Kubernetes (GKE)

Terraform/IaC

CI/CD Automation

Observability

Incident Management

Automation Scripts

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

Terraform Cloud

GKE

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Cloud Run

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (GCP Platform & Kubernetes)

Experience

8–12 Years

Employment Type

Full-Time

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloud Run, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Automation, and Production Operations.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of mission-critical cloud platforms running on GCP. The role demands hands‑on experience in GKE, Cloud Run, Terraform/Terraform Cloud, CI/CD, Container Platforms, Observability, Incident Management, and Cloud Automation.

This position requires close collaboration with Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Application teams to drive operational excellence and platform resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage highly available cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Deploy, operate, and optimize workloads running on:
• Compute Engine
• VPC Networking
• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and availability across environments.
• Design and manage enterprise‑grade Kubernetes platforms using GKE.
• Deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot containerized applications.
• Implement container lifecycle management and cluster governance.
• Optimize Kubernetes networking, ingress, autoscaling, workloads, and storage.
• Drive platform standardization and Kubernetes best practices.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure using:
• Terraform
• Terraform Cloud
• Automate provisioning of cloud environments.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code governance and compliance controls.

Automation & SRE Practices

• Build automation solutions using:
• Python
• Shell Scripting
• Cloud‑native tooling
• Eliminate repetitive operational tasks through automation.
• Develop self‑healing mechanisms for cloud infrastructure.
• Improve platform reliability through SRE principles and engineering practices.

CI/CD & DevOps

• Build and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
• Preferred experience with:
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Implement automated deployment strategies and release processes.
• Support blue‑green and canary deployment methodologies.

Monitoring & Observability

• Design and manage monitoring and alerting frameworks.
• Configure dashboards, metrics, logging, and observability solutions.
• Establish SLA, SLI, and SLO measures.
• Perform root‑cause analysis and service health monitoring.
• Continuously optimize platform reliability and performance.

Incident & Problem Management

• Participate in major incident management activities.
• Own incident troubleshooting and platform recovery.
• Conduct RCA (Root Cause Analysis) and post‑mortem reviews.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Support Problem Management processes aligned with ITIL practices.

Security & Container Governance

• Implement container security controls and vulnerability remediation.
• Manage container quality and security using tools such as:
• SonarQube
• Container Image Scanning Solutions
• Ensure infrastructure security best practices.
• Collaborate with Security teams for compliance and governance.
• Manage and troubleshoot:
• DNS
• VPC
• Subnets
• Routing
• Firewall Rules
• Load Balancers
• Connectivity Issues
• Support hybrid and cloud‑native networking solutions.

Documentation & Operational Readiness

• Create and maintain:
• Runbooks
• SOPs
• Operational Documentation
• Recovery Procedures
• Drive knowledge management and operational excellence.

Mandatory Skills

• Compute Engine
• VPC Networking

Containerization

• Docker
• Container Orchestration
• GKE Administration

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform
• Terraform Cloud

Automation & Scripting

• Python
• Shell Scripting
• Infrastructure Automation

CI/CD

• Harness (Preferred)
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions

Monitoring & Observability

• Monitoring Tools
• Alerting Configuration
• Performance Analysis

Operations

• Change Management
• ITIL Framework
• Agile/Scrum
• JIRA
• Cross‑functional Collaboration

Preferred Skills

• GitOps
• ArgoCD
• Grafana
• ELK Stack
• OpenTelemetry
• SRE Error Budget Management
• Cloud Security & Compliance

Education

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in:
• Computer Science
• Information Technology
• Related Technical Discipline

Certifications (Preferred)

• Google Professional Cloud Architect
• Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer
• Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer