Site Reliability Engineer

Spot Your Leaders & Consulting; Pune District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Spot Your Leaders & Consulting in Pune, India, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 9–15 years of experience for immediate hire or within 30 days. You will design, implement, and operate highly available systems, define SLIs/SLOs, and build health dashboards to monitor platform stability and customer experience.

The role emphasizes automation, incident response, performance testing, chaos engineering exposure, and collaboration with DevOps and product teams.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Core SRE practices, including reliability engineering, incident management, and automation.
• Proven hands-on experience in Performance Engineering / Performance Testing for large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding and implementation experience with SLI / SLO / Error Budget frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong background in monitoring, observability, and logging
• Tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK Stack.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
• Experience designing and running incident response and post-mortem reviews.
• Ownership mindset with accountability for service reliability and customer outcomes.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate highly available, resilient, and scalable systems aligned with SRE best practices.
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets to balance reliability and delivery velocity.
• Build and maintain service health dashboards to provide real-time visibility into platform stability and customer experience.
• Reduce toil through extensive automation of operational workflows, alerts, and remediation activities.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Incident management

Automation

Docker & Kubernetes

Monitoring & observability

Python scripting

CI/CD tools

Chaos engineering exposure

Azure cloud

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK Stack

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Description: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

(Notice period - Immediate or maximum 30 days)

• Total years of experience 9- 15 yrs
• Need to have experience or exposure in Chaos Engineering or Resilience Testing.
• Hands on experience in Python/ Bash
• Hands on experience in Ansible, Gitlab, CI/CD, Gitlab Pages, Jenkins, Terraform
• Hands on experience in Azure

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in Core SRE practices, including reliability engineering, incident management, and automation.
• Proven hands-on experience in Performance Engineering / Performance Testing for large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding and implementation experience with SLI / SLO / Error Budget frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong background in monitoring, observability, and logging
• Tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK Stack.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Terraform, Ansible.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
• Experience designing and running incident response and post-mortem reviews.
• Ownership mindset with accountability for service reliability and customer outcomes.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to Have (SRE+ Skills)

• Experience with Keptn or similar tools for automated SLO-based quality gates and continuous delivery.
• Programming experience in Java, especially for debugging, performance profiling, or building automation tools.
• Familiarity with chaos engineering practices and tools.
• Experience working in banking, payments, or capital markets domains.
• Knowledge of security best practices and regulatory compliance in enterprise environment

Responsibilities

What You Will Be Doing

Core SRE & Reliability Engineering

• Design, implement, and operate highly available, resilient, and scalable systems aligned with SRE best practices.
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets to balance reliability and delivery velocity.
• Build and maintain service health dashboards to provide real-time visibility into platform stability and customer experience.
• Reduce toil through extensive automation of operational workflows, alerts, and remediation activities.

Monitoring, Observability & Service Health

• Design and maintain end-to-end monitoring and observability solutions covering infrastructure, applications, APIs, and user journeys.
• Implement advanced alerting strategies to reduce noise and improve mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR).
• Leverage metrics, logs, and traces to drive root cause analysis and proactive incident prevention.
• Enable reliability reporting for stakeholders using SLO compliance and service health metrics.

Performance Engineering & Testing

• Lead performance engineering initiatives, including load testing, stress testing, endurance testing, and capacity validation.
• Identify performance bottlenecks across application, middleware, database, and infrastructure layers.
• Conduct capacity planning and performance tuning to support business growth and peak traffic scenarios.
• Partner with development and QA teams to embed performance testing into CI/CD pipelines.

Incident Management & Operations

• Lead and participate in incident response activities, including triage, mitigation, recovery, and post-incident reviews.
• Drive blameless post-mortems and ensure corrective actions are tracked to completion.
• Participate in on-call rotations, providing 24x7 support for critical production systems.
• Continuously improve operational readiness and resilience.

Automation, CI/CD & Cloud Operations

• Design and manage deployment pipelines, configuration management, and environment consistency across lower and production environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices for repeatable and secure cloud provisioning.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve deployment reliability, rollback mechanisms, and release safety.
• Develop and test disaster recovery plans, backup strategies, and failover mechanisms.
• Work closely with Development, QA, DevOps, Security, and Product teams to align on reliability and performance goals.
• Ensure platforms meet security, compliance, and regulatory requirements common in financial services.
• Act as a reliability and performance advocate throughout the SDLC.