Site Reliability Engineer

Indihire Consultants; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Indihire Consultants in Hyderabad invites an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud-based applications and infrastructure. You will be embedded with the Development team while reporting to the infrastructure leader, focusing on reliability, performance, and deploy practices.

The role demands hands-on experience with GCP or similar cloud platforms, containers (Docker/Kubernetes), and IaC tools like Terraform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing, developing, delivering, and operating scalable applications and infrastructure.
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• Google Professional Cloud Architect or similar certification desired
• Advanced hands-on experience with CI/CD methodologies and technologies
• Advanced experience with cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform or similar)
• Strong experience with containers (Docker) and IaC (Terraform)
• Working knowledge of Helm and service mesh concepts like Istio
• Proficiency with scripting (Shell, Python) in Linux
• Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams
• Excellent understanding of internet concepts and protocols

Responsibilities

• Maintain availability, performance, and scalability of critical services and production environments.
• Collaborate with developers to design reliable applications and improve deployment practices.
• Break down walls and build trust between developers and infrastructure teams.
• Own end-to-end CI/CD including automated testing, observability, dependency management, and operational concerns.
• Improve CI/CD pipeline reliability, traceability, and security.
• Build automation for provisioning, configuration, deployments, and incident response.
• Improve observability using metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
• Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response, and drive root cause analysis.
• Conduct capacity planning, chaos testing, and reliability reviews.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Helm, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, etc.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines and ensure safe, repeatable deployments (ArgoCD).
• Champion SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, postmortems.
• Embrace a culture of enablement, customer service, continuous improvement, transparency, and fiscal responsibility.
• Perform other duties as directed

Skills

Scalability design

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Istio

Observability

Shell scripting

Python

GCP / cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Information Systems

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

Istio

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Maintain availability, performance, and scalability of critical services and production environments.
• Collaborate closely with developers to design reliable applications and improve deployment practices (you will be embedded in the Development team but reporting to infrastructure leader).
• Break down walls and build trust between developers and infrastructure teams
• Participate in end-to-end application ownership throughout the CI/CD process, including automated testing, observability, dependency management, and other operational concerns.
• Improve CI/CD pipeline reliability, traceability, and security
• Build automation for provisioning, configuration, deployments, and incident response.
• Improve observability using metrics, logs, distributed tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
• Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response, and drive root cause analysis.
• Conduct capacity planning, chaos testing, and reliability reviews.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Helm, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/etc.
• Optimize CI/CD pipelines and ensure safe, repeatable deployments (i.e. ArgoCD).
• Champion SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, toil reduction, problem management, blameless postmortems.
• Embrace a culture of enablement, customer service, continuous improvement, transparency, and fiscal responsibility
• Perform other duties as directed

Preferred candidate profile

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• 5+ years designing, developing, delivering, and operating scalable, available, high-performance applications (Java and node.js, etc.) and infrastructure
• Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field
• Familiarity with modern application languages and concepts, with hands‑on e-commerce software development experience preferred
• Google Professional Cloud Architect or similar certification desired
• Advanced hands‑on experience with continuous integration and delivery / deployment methodologies and technologies
• Advanced experience with computer, networking, security, storage, monitoring, logging, database, and other technologies in Google Cloud Platform or similar major cloud environment
• Strong experience with containerization (e.g. Docker), Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Working knowledge of Helm and Service Mesh (e.g. Istio)
• Proficient understanding of microservices principles and orchestration
• Excellence in navigating and prioritizing multiple simultaneous responsibilities of varying scope and complexity
• Ability to effectively articulate technical concepts to audiences at all organizational levels via oral, written, and other non‑verbal communications
• Demonstrated desire and ability to be self‑directed, take ownership of issues, and establish a prominent level of credibility
• Ability to work well independently and within dynamic, cross-functional teams
• Excellent understanding of Internet concepts, technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, TLS / SSL, etc.)
• Experience with rapid detection and resolution of technical issues using various monitoring and application performance management tools
• Proficiency with shell scripting, Python and/or other scripting languages in a Linux environment
• Ability to operate effectively under pressure, both independently and in collaboration with other resources
• Ability to rapidly learn new technologies via mentoring, formal training, independent research and testing
• A genuine desire and willingness to share knowledge effectively with others