Site Reliability & Resilience -Senior manager

EY; Chennai District; On-site; INR 450,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior SRE Consultant (SM) in Chennai to lead transformation using SRE principles, architecture, and roadmaps across enterprise IT. You will implement SRE strategies, govern solutions, and guide maturity improvements with a focus on reliability and cost optimization.

Ideal candidates bring 15+ years in software product engineering, hands-on Java/J2EE, cloud expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), and strong observability, automation, and IaC experience to drive enterprise-scale reliability.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in SRE and software product engineering.
• Hands-on with Java/J2EE, web servers and major RDBMS.
• Experience with at least one CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with cloud technologies and reliability tools.
• Knowledge of Linux performance monitoring and Web Services/REST.
• Proficient in observability, APM and log aggregation.
• Familiar with automation scripting languages (Python).

Responsibilities

• Define SLA/SLO/SLI for products or services.
• Engineering resilient designs through the product lifecycle.
• Design and implement Observability solutions and reporting.
• Automate manual tasks and CI/CD improvements.
• Optimize IT Infra & Operations costs (FinOps).
• Review and improve deployed products for architecture and inter-service dependencies.

Skills

Java/J2EE

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Observability tools

Linux performance

Web services

JVM tuning

Automation scripting

Git/Jira/Confluence

Microservices

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Dynatrace

Job description

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Sr. Consultant (SM)

Description

• 15 Years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a modern way of delivering IT Operations by imbibing Software engineering principles in Service Delivery to reduce IT Risk to business, improve business resilience, attain predictability & reliability, optimize cost of IT Infra and Ops
• An SRE Architect / Consultant will be a technical advisor to strategize the transformation roadmap to modernize IT delivery with SRE principles, frameworks and levers – in a nutshell, setting up SRE into Enterprise IT
• They will also implement the SRE Roadmap and govern SRE solutions across the enterprise / line-of-businesses
• They will be able to assess SRE Maturity of an IT Organization and provide strategy and roadmap to achieve higher maturity levels

Responsibilities

• Defining SLA/SLO/SLI for a product / service
• Engineering in resilient design and implementation practices into solutions as they go through the product life cycle
• Designing & implementing Observability Solutions to track, report, and measure SLA adherence
• Engineering out manual effort (Toil) through the development of automated processes and services (e.g., Automated Management of Systems, CI/CD improvements)
• Optimize Cost of IT Infra & Operations - FinOps
• Review, Analysis and Improvement of deployed products with respect to product architecture and inter-service dependencies - Simplification

Typical Skills And Background

• 15+ years of experience in software product engineering principles, processes and systems
• Hands-on experience in Java / J2EE, one of web server (Apache Tomcat or IBM HTTP Server), one of the application servers (Tomcat/WebSphere), and any major RDBMS like Oracle
• Hands-on experience in at least one CI-CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) and IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible etc.)
• Experience in at least one cloud technology (AWS/Azure/GCP etc. and Docker, Pivotal, Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.) and its reliability tools (Azure AppInsight, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor etc.)
• Experience in Observability - APM tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics etc.), metrics / log consolidation (Splunk) and ELK Stack
• Defining NFRs and SLA/SLO/SLI agreement for a product / platform / services
• Knowledge on queuing models used, thread pools, request servicing processes etc.
• Experience in Linux (RHEL) operating system performance monitoring parameters and their interpretation, commands used for monitoring
• Experience in Web Services, SOA, ESB (DataPower), RESTFul
• Knowledge of application design patterns, J2EE application architectures, Microservices, Spring boot & Cloud native architectures
• Proficiency in Java runtimes, Core Java, Garbage collection, JVM parameters tuning
• Experience in performance tuning on Application Servers (Tomcat/WAS)
• Experience in trouble shooting Performance / Scalability / Availability issues
• Thread dump, heap dump generation & analysis
• Knowledge on Query tuning and database architecture
• Knowledge at least one automation scripting language like Python
• Mastery of collaborative software development using Git, Jira, Confluence etc.
• AI/ML & Data Analytics knowledge and experience is a desirable

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