Site Reliability Engineer

Saika Technologies Inc.; Hyderabad, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Saika Technologies Inc. is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 6+ years of experience to build, operate, and improve highly available, scalable production systems in Hyderabad.

The role requires strong Linux, cloud, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident management skills to enhance reliability and operational efficiency. The candidate will design, deploy, monitor, and optimize production environments, develop CI/CD pipelines, automate tasks, and participate in on-call rotations,

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Production Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Good scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain, and support highly available production environments.
• Monitor system health, availability, performance, and capacity across production infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure deployments.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting and IaC.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents and participate in on-call rotations.
• Conduct root-cause analysis (RCA) for incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to improve service reliability.
• Implement observability with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, Security, and Infra teams to improve reliability.

Skills

Linux/Unix

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Scripting

Monitoring

Incident management

Networking

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Job Summary

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 6+ years of experience to help build, operate, and improve highly available, scalable, and reliable production systems.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Linux, cloud platforms, automation, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident management, with a passion for improving system reliability and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain, and support highly available and scalable production environments.
• Monitor system health, availability, performance, and capacity across production infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents, service outages, and performance issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide timely incident response.
• Conduct root-cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs to improve service reliability.
• Implement and maintain observability solutions including metrics, logs, and distributed tracing.
• Work closely with Development, QA, Security, and Infrastructure teams to improve application reliability.
• Implement infrastructure and configuration management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
• Support capacity planning, performance optimization, disaster recovery, and business continuity initiatives.
• Continuously improve deployment, monitoring, alerting, and incident-management processes.

Required Skills

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, or Production Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform:
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Good scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, Go, or similar.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, Splunk, or similar.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/IP, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Experience with production incident management, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Familiarity with Git and version-control systems.

Good to Have

• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, EKS, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Experience managing Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Knowledge of microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience with service meshes such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Knowledge of security best practices and cloud security.
• Experience with chaos engineering, performance testing, or reliability engineering practices.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing.
• Knowledge of database and caching technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, or MongoDB.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues under pressure.
• Automation-first mindset.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ownership of production systems and reliability.
• Willingness to participate in on-call/support rotations.