Site Reliability Engineer

NOV; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NOV is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in Ernakulam, India. This role will lead production reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence across our platform. You will work at the cross-section of software and systems engineering, driving improvements for product uptime and user satisfaction.

The ideal candidate has 5–10 years of experience in SRE or DevOps roles, with a strong background in Kubernetes, AKKA.NET, and observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Strong experience with AKKA.NET or similar actor-based frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor production systems for availability, latency, and performance.
• Lead incident response efforts including communication and resolution.
• Design health checks and alerting systems for automated remediation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Container orchestration

Scripting

AKKA.NET

PostgreSQL performance tuning

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Azure Pipelines

Docker

Job description

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced SRE to lead production reliability, performance tuning, and operational excellence across our platform. You’ll work at the intersection of software engineering and systems engineering—driving improvements that directly impact product uptime, velocity, and user satisfaction. If you are passionate about reliability, automation, and scalability—and have the technical depth to back it up—this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for Operational Excellence & Incident Management.
• Maintain and monitor production systems for availability, latency, and performance.
• Lead incident response efforts, including communication, resolution, and postmortem documentation.
• Design and implement health checks, alerting systems, and automated remediation workflows.
• Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent resolutions for recurring issues.
• Set up and maintain full observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK.
• Analyze telemetry and logs to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct post-incident reviews and use insights to inform future engineering investments.
• Tune and optimize distributed systems, including AKKA.NET actors, for performance and resource efficiency.
• Work with developers to evolve architecture and improve system throughput, latency, and stability.
• Optimize PostgreSQL performance, queries, and maintenance strategies.
• Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or GitLab CI.
• Automate deployment, testing, and rollback processes to reduce friction and increase deployment frequency.
• Standardize infrastructure as code practices across environments.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
• Strong experience with AKKA.NET or similar actor-based frameworks.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python).
• Experience with observability tools (Phobos, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
• Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge—performance tuning, query optimization, maintenance.
• Proven ability to lead incident management and drive postmortem processes.
• A builder’s mindset with high standards for operational excellence and technical ownership.
• Preferred Tools & Ecosystem Experience.
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI.
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform.
• Monitoring: Phobos (AKKA.NET), Datadog, Prometheus.
• Source Control: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps.
• Programming: C#, Python, Bash, PowerShell.