Site Reliability Engineer - Lead

Cloudxtreme; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cloudxtreme in Hyderabad, India seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Application SRE Lead) to drive operational excellence for mission-critical authentication and enterprise applications. You will own reliability, observability, automation, and service resilience at scale.

The role is highly technical, with ~80% hands-on delivery including incident management, platform reliability, and deployments, and ~20% focus on leadership, governance, and mentoring across globally

Qualifications

• Experience in Application SRE, observability, incident management and reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence, reliability, observability, automation and service resilience for mission-critical applications.
• Lead incident management and platform reliability across globally distributed environments.
• Spend ~80% of time delivering hands-on engineering work and ~20% on leadership, governance and mentoring.

Skills

Application SRE

Observability

Incident management

Reliability engineering

Team leadership

Delivery management

Stakeholder management

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Cloud platforms

Microservices

CI/CD

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Job description

Role & responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineering Lead (Application SRE Lead) to drive operational excellence, reliability, observability, automation, and service resilience for mission-critical authentication and enterprise applications.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Application SRE, Production Support, Cloud Operations, Incident Management, Authentication Platforms, Observability, Microservices, and DevOps practices while leading teams operating in highly complex, large-scale, globally distributed environments.

This role requires a strong technical leader who spends approximately 80% of time contributing directly to delivery, technical troubleshooting, incident management, automation, observability, deployments, and platform reliability, while dedicating 20% of time to team leadership, stakeholder management, mentoring, governance, and service improvement initiatives.

The individual will work closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Client stakeholders to ensure application availability, reliability, security, and performance meet business objectives.

Mandatory Skills

• 1.Application SRE, Observability, Incident Management & Reliability Engineering
• 2.Authentication Platforms (OAuth, OIDC, SAML, MFA, Okta, Transmit, Any)
• 3.Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud Platforms & Microservices (Any)
• 4.CI/CD, Release Engineering & Production Deployments (Any)
• 5.Database & Middleware Support (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Any)
• 6.Leadership, Delivery Management & Service Excellence