Site Reliability Engineer

Ascendion; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS/Azure. You will drive SRE practices, manage Kubernetes in production, and implement IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation/ARM.

The role requires strong Linux, networking, and engineering skills, plus scripting in Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell. You will collaborate with Development, Security, and Platform teams, participate in on-call incidents, and optimize cloud costs while

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure Cloud.
• Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Docker, and Helm expertise.
• Terraform / IaC experience.
• CI/CD, GitOps, and automation experience.
• Monitoring, logging, and observability tooling knowledge.
• Strong Linux, networking, and distributed systems knowledge.
• Scripting in Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience supporting large-scale production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure.
• Drive SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, and RCA.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes platforms (EKS/AKS) in production environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep).
• Build automation and self-healing solutions using Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Establish enterprise observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, etc.
• Design and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and cloud cost optimization.
• Partner with Development, Security, and Platform teams to improve reliability and operational excellence.
• Participate in on-call support, major incident management, and production troubleshooting.

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS and/or Azure.
• Drive SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, and RCA.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes platforms (EKS/AKS) in production environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep).
• Build automation and self-healing solutions using Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Establish enterprise observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry, etc.
• Design and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD.
• Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, disaster recovery, and cloud cost optimization.
• Partner with Development, Security, and Platform teams to improve reliability and operational excellence.
• Participate in on-call support, major incident management, and production troubleshooting.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and/or Azure Cloud
• Expertise in Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Docker, Helm
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Automation
• Hands-on with Monitoring, Logging, and Observability tools
• Strong Linux, Networking, and Distributed Systems knowledge
• Scripting/Programming experience in Python, Go, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience supporting large-scale, mission-critical production environments

Requirements: