Site Reliability Engineer

Virtusa Corporation; Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa Corporation is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our team in Hyderabad. The role focuses on applying engineering discipline to reduce manual production support and service management, while building scalable, reliable platforms.

You will work in a self-organized team with strong collaboration, owning significant components of the platform, deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, Istio service mesh, and advanced monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in critical production environments.
• Expertise in CI/CD automation and related tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Nexus, Git).
• Proficient in programming languages such as Java, Groovy, Scala, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript, PowerShell or Shell.
• Experience provisioning components using ARM templates and Helm charts.
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and Istio service mesh.
• Proficient in monitoring with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Dynatrace or Splunk.
• Strong problem-solving, ownership mindset and clear communication.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting large-scale systems.
• Linux OS familiarity; knowledge of filesystems and system calls.
• Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Develop, deploy, and operate scalable production systems.
• Lead SRE activities to reduce toil and automate manual tasks.
• Architect and troubleshoot large-scale distributed services.
• Collaborate in an Agile team to improve platform reliability.
• Implement monitoring and incident response practices.

Skills

DevOps expert

CI/CD automation

Strong problem-solving

Agile experience

Ownership mindset

System design

Tools

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Nexus

Git

Kubernetes

Istio

ARM templates

Helm

Dynatrace

Splunk

Azure Monitor

Job description

Site Reliability Engineering Senior Developer

To support our new platform, we understand that a wide range of skills are necessary and those skills can only be satisfied through a self-organized and highly cohesive team. Our goal is to apply high degree of engineering to dramatically bring down manual processing of production support and service management. This means we need talents who are passionate with engineering, but love to learn and collaborate with their peers continually, to ensure the team is constantly evolving together. A role should not define you, therefore we prefer to work with people that have well-honed skills, experience and knowledge in varying specialisms. That is hard to portray in a job description, so we have listed a few key areas that would be important to the role and you would be expected to be strong in some of them:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience in critical production environments
• Very strong DevOps skill set with expertise CI/CD automation, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Nexus, and Git
• Experience programming in at least two of the following languages: Java, Groovy, Scala, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript, PowerShell or Shell
• Provisioning components and services using ARM & Helm chart Templates
• Experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters
• Experience in deploying and managing Istio for service mesh patterns
• Proficient in monitoring tools e.g. Azure Monitor/Log Analytics/Dynatrace/Splunk
• Systematic problem-solving approach, strong communication skills and a sense of ownership
• Working in an Agile environment
• Experience architecting, developing, and troubleshooting large scale systems
• Linux operating system level experience (e.g. filesystems, system calls)
• Experience with algorithms and data structures