Site Reliability Engineer

BuildxPartners; Sadar Bazar; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Syfe is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer/Platform Engineer to own the reliability of its production stack. You will manage a Kubernetes-native, multi-region platform across APAC regions, drive SLI/SLOs and incident response, and lead automation initiatives.

The role requires hands-on SRE experience with Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS), and observability tools, plus a strong ownership mindset and excellent communication during incidents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4–8 years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevOps, with a strong senior IC track record of owning production systems.
• Production-grade expertise with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred) in distributed-systems environments.
• Hands-on experience defining and operating against SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, with incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Strong observability experience with metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Proficient in automation and infrastructure-as-code using Python, Go, Shell, and Terraform.
• Comfortable with GitOps and CI/CD practices for reliable delivery.
• Strong Linux/Unix fundamentals, networking, and cloud-native security knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills for high-pressure incidents and written/oral updates.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end reliability of Syfe’s production platform, ensuring high availability and stability.
• Operate a Kubernetes-native, multi-region platform across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney.
• Serve as a senior individual contributor, defining reliability standards and building systems and processes to meet them.
• Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across critical services with product and engineering teams.
• Own on-call, escalation, and incident-response programs including incident command and blameless postmortems.
• Own the reliability of the AWS EKS-based deployment platform with GitOps (ArgoCD), Helm releases, and Terraform/OpenTofu; ensure safe, reversible deployments.
• Build and continuously improve the observability stack (Datadog, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse) and dashboards/alerts.
• Lead capacity planning, scalability analysis, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning across regions.
• Plan game days and chaos engineering to validate resilience and recovery processes.
• Identify and reduce operational toil through automation and self-service tooling.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

GitOps

Terraform

Prometheus

Datadog

ArgoCD

CI/CD

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

ClickHouse

VictoriaMetrics

Grafana

Datadog

Prometheus

ArgoCD

Job description

Sadar Bazar, India | Posted on 21/09/2026

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Job Description

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.


• 4–8 years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, or DevOps, with a strong senior IC track record of owning production systems.


• Production-grade expertise with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud platforms (AWS preferred) in distributed-systems environments.


• Hands‑on experience defining and operating against SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets, along with leading incident response and blameless postmortems.


• Strong experience with observability tools covering metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, and alerting, such as Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent platforms.


• Proficient in automation and infrastructure‑as‑code, using technologies such as Python, Go, Shell, and Terraform.


• Comfortable working with GitOps and CI/CD practices for reliable software and infrastructure delivery.


• Strong understanding of Linux/Unix internals, networking, and cloud‑native security fundamentals.


• Strong operational rigor, ownership mindset, and ability to communicate clearly in both written and verbal formats, including during high‑pressure incidents.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end reliability of Syfe’s production platform, ensuring high availability, performance, and operational stability.


• Work with a Kubernetes-native, multi‑region platform across Singapore, Hong Kong, and Sydney, supporting a regulated digital wealth‑management product.


• Operate as a senior individual contributor , defining measurable reliability standards and building systems, automation, and processes to maintain them.


• Define and drive SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets across critical services, partnering with product and engineering teams to balance velocity and stability.


• Own the on‑call, escalation, and incident‑response program , including incident command, blameless postmortems, RCA tracking, and reducing MTTD and MTTR.


• Own the reliability of the AWS EKS‑based deployment platform , including GitOps with ArgoCD , Helm‑based release configuration, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/OpenTofu .


• Ensure deployments are safe, progressive, and reversible , with strong rollout and rollback mechanisms.


• Build and continuously improve the observability stack using tools such as Datadog, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, and ClickHouse .


• Develop meaningful dashboards, actionable alerts, and monitoring practices while reducing unnecessary alert noise.


• Lead capacity planning, scalability analysis, failure‑mode analysis, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning across regions.


• Plan and conduct game days and chaos engineering exercises to validate system resilience and recovery processes.


• Identify operational toil and eliminate it through automation, self‑service tooling, and improved engineering practices .


• Strengthen production safety , including deployment guardrails, rollback processes, and secrets management using HashiCorp Vault .


• Partner with engineering teams to improve production readiness and service reliability before systems are deployed to production.


• Drive reliability through hands‑on engineering, design reviews, production‑readiness reviews, runbooks, and technical documentation .


• Mentor engineers and influence engineering teams to adopt SRE best practices and build a strong culture of production ownership.