Site Reliability Engineer - Google Cloud Platform

GAMMASTACK; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

GAMMASTACK is seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, availability, and performance of production workloads on Google Cloud Platform. You will design resilient infrastructure using Cloud Run and Kubernetes, implement strong observability, and lead incident response to keep services healthy.

The role emphasizes CI/CD improvements, automation, and collaboration with product teams to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or related DevOps with production ownership.
• Strong experience running production systems on Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on with Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and container-based microservices in production.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform/ Terragrunt).
• Strong observability understanding (OpenTelemetry, Cloud Monitoring, New Relic).
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and release workflows (GitHub Actions).
• Ability to code/automate in Python or Java.
• Excellent written and verbal communication across teams.
• Experience with AI tooling and agentic workflows is a plus.
• Experience in retail/e-commerce is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability, availability, and performance of microservices and production workloads.
• Design and improve resilient infrastructure on GCP, with strong emphasis on Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and containerized services.
• Build observability across logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and service health so issues are detected early and resolved quickly.
• Improve deployment safety through stronger CI/CD pipelines, release controls, rollback strategies, and environment consistency.
• Lead incident response and production readiness practices, including runbooks, postmortems, on-call hygiene, capacity planning, and resilience testing.
• Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive work and improving tooling for engineers supporting distributed services.
• Partner with development teams to improve the operability, scalability, and fault tolerance of microservices early in the design lifecycle.
• Strengthen cloud security and infrastructure hygiene across IAM, secrets management, workload hardening, and production safeguards.
• Improve service performance, resource efficiency, and cloud cost management without compromising reliability.
• Support architecture and reliability reviews for critical services and high-traffic business.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

DevOps

Google Cloud Platform

Cloud Run

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

Observability

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Python

Java

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Cloud Monitoring

Job description

• Own the reliability, availability, and performance of microservices and production workloads.
• Design and improve resilient infrastructure on GCP, with strong emphasis on Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and containerized services.
• Build and maintain observability across logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, and service health so issues are detected early and resolved quickly.
• Improve deployment safety through stronger CI/CD pipelines, release controls, rollback strategies, and environment consistency.
• Lead incident response and production readiness practices, including runbooks, postmortems, on-call hygiene, capacity planning, and resilience testing.
• Reduce operational toil by automating repetitive work and improving tooling for engineers supporting distributed services.
• Partner with development teams to improve the operability, scalability, and fault tolerance of microservices early in the design lifecycle.
• Strengthen cloud security and infrastructure hygiene across IAM, secrets management, workload hardening, and production safeguards.
• Improve service performance, resource efficiency, and cloud cost management without compromising reliability.
• Support architecture and reliability reviews for critical services and high-traffic business 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or closely related DevOps roles with meaningful production ownership.
• Strong experience running production systems on Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Run, Kubernetes, and container-based microservices in production.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code, particularly Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Strong understanding of observability using tools such as OpenTelemetry, Cloud Monitoring, New Relic, or equivalent systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, microservice failure modes, reliability engineering, and production debugging.
• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines and release workflows in modern engineering environments, including GitHub Actions.
• Ability to write code and automation in one or more languages such as Python or Java.
• Good judgment during incidents and a practical mindset around reliability, recovery, and risk tradeoffs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering teams.
• Experience working with AI tooling and agentic workflows in engineering or operational environments.
• Experience in retail, e-commerce, or other customer-facing environments is a plus.