Site Reliability Engineer

Ascendion Engineering; Mumbai, Chennai, Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion Engineering in Mumbai seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to improve deployment reliability, availability, performance and security of production systems. The role requires hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes (AKS) and infrastructure as code, plus scripting and automation to enhance deployment processes.

You will design runbooks, implement monitoring and alerting standards, build dashboards, and collaborate across application, security, networking and operations teams to drive

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE, production operations and application releases.
• Hands-on with public cloud (Azure) and Kubernetes (AKS).
• Automation and IaC using Terraform; scripting in Python/Shell/PowerShell.
• CI/CD pipelines with Github Actions; incident diagnosis and remediation.
• Monitoring, logging, observability and performance analysis.
• Collaborative work across multiple teams (security, networking, dev, ops).

Responsibilities

• Delivery of resilient application stacks via Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
• Monitor environments, respond to alerts and incidents, diagnose issues, coordinate escalation.
• Design and maintain automation, runbooks, and workflows for provisioning infrastructure and deployments.
• Establish logging, monitoring, alerting, metrics, and tracing standards; reduce alert noise.
• Build dashboards and visuals for system health, capacity, and incident trends.
• Contribute to Ops projects from planning to support and closure.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Production operations

Incident management

Collaboration

Security awareness

Tools

Azure

AKS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Python

Shell

PowerShell

Github Actions

Job description

Role Definition

The SRE role is responsible for improving the deployment, reliability, availability, performance, operational quality and security posture of production systems. This role provides technical input into project plans, schedules, methodologies, and operational strategies across multiple system environments.

The role requires in depth, hands on, experience of at least one cloud environment along with the ability to work with existing deployment processes and code bases while advising on and making pragmatic improvements.

Engineers must be able to work collaboratively across groups such as application engineering, security, networking, database, operations and support teams.

Scope and Key Responsibilities

• Delivery of resilient application stacks via \"Infrastructure as Code\" and other DevOps practices

Monitor environments, respond to alerts and incidents, diagnose system and performance issues, and coordinate escalation and recovery.

Design and maintain automation, scripts, integrations, runbooks, and workflows for provisioning infrastructure, application deployments, health checks, remediation, and routine operations.

Establish logging, monitoring, alerting, metrics, and tracing standards; improve alert quality by reducing noise and ensuring alerts are actionable.

Build dashboards and visualizations that communicate system health, availability, performance, capacity, service-level objectives, and incident trends.

Contribute to Operations Team projects from planning and implementation through documentation, transition to support, and closure.

Review and improve technical procedures, scripts, automation, and operational documentation.

Track activities and stakeholder commitments through completion to deliver project work and improve production quality, reliability, and availability.

Technical Skills

• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), production operations, change request management and application releases
• Professional hands-on expertise with public cloud infrastructure in Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), containerized workloads, virtualization, and distributed systems.
• Strong automation and infrastructure engineering skills, including Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), configuration management, scripting (Python, Shell, PowerShell), system provisioning, deployments through CI/CD (Github Actions), remediation, and security risk mitigation

Advanced knowledge of Linux/UNIX and Windows environments, storage and file systems, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, lifecycle management, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, observability, and performance analysis, including the ability to analyze system diagnostics, logs, traces, resource utilization, and operational metric

Behavioral Competencies

• Collaboration and Teamwork
• Customer & External Focus
• Solves Problems and Analyses Issues
• Learning Agility
• Builds Relationships
• Develops Others