Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

UST; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their team in Thiruvananthapuram, India. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience in Google Cloud Platform and DevOps practices. This role involves improving the software development lifecycle and managing large-scale, highly available systems. Successful candidates will play a key role in ensuring system reliability and performance while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP); AWS experience is a plus.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage and improve the software development lifecycle.
• Design and maintain large-scale infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Investigate and resolve performance and reliability issues across services.

Skills

GCP

AWS

Jenkins

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Overview

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Role Description

UST Global is seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to work with one of the leading financial services organizations in the US. This role involves managing the end-to-end application and system stack, ensuring high reliability, scalability, and performance of distributed systems. As an SRE, you will combine software engineering and systems engineering to build and operate large-scale, fault-tolerant production environments.

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the software development lifecycle – from design and development to deployment, operations, and refinement.
• Design, develop, and maintain large-scale infrastructure, CI/CD automation pipelines, and build tools.
• Influence infrastructure architecture, standards, and methods for highly scalable systems.
• Support services prior to production through infrastructure design, platform development, load testing, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Maintain and monitor services in production by tracking key performance indicators (availability, latency, system health).
• Automate scalability, resiliency, and system performance improvements.
• Investigate and resolve performance and reliability issues across large-scale and high-throughput services.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure applications are scalable, maintainable, and follow DR/HA strategies.
• Create and maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational guides.
• Implement corrective action plans with a focus on sustainable, preventative, and automated solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP); experience with AWS is a plus.
• Proficiency in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and build tools (e.g., Jenkins).
• Solid understanding of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with configuration management and deployment tools (Chef, Octopus, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, etc.).
• Strong cross-functional knowledge of systems, storage, networking, security, and databases.
• Experience operating production environments at scale with focus on availability and latency.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong system administration skills on Linux/Windows, with automation and orchestration experience.
• Hands-on with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools and practices.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Passion for automation and eliminating manual toil.
• Experience working in highly secure, regulated, or compliant industries.
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices.
• Experience in DevOps culture, thriving in collaborative and fast-paced environments.

Skills

Gcp, Aws, Jenkins, Kubernetes

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting