Sr SRE Engineer

TechBlocks; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

TechBlocks is hiring an experienced SRE/infrastructure engineer in Hyderabad to drive platform resilience in cloud-native environments. You will own SLIs/SLOs, manage on-call RCA processes, and design robust runbooks for high-availability services.

Responsibilities include implementing observability with ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana; coordinating war-room sessions during major incidents; and improving automated recovery, alert rules, and escalation logic using GCP tools like GKE and Cloud Armor.

Qualifications

• 6-8 years of SRE or infrastructure engineering experience in cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and manage error budgets across services.
• Lead incident management for critical production issues drive root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems.
• Create and maintain runbooks and standard operating procedures for high availability services.
• Design and implement observability frameworks using ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana; drive telemetry adoption.
• Coordinate cross-functional war-room sessions during major incidents and maintain response logs.
• Develop and improve automated system recovery, alert suppression, and escalation logic.
• Use GCP tools like GKE, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Armor to improve performance and security posture.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to build highly available and scalable systems.
• Analyze performance metrics and conduct regular reliability reviews with engineering leads.
• Participate in capacity planning, failover testing, and resilience architecture reviews.

Skills

GCP

GKE

Load Balancing

VPN

IAM

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

On-call

RCA

SLIs/SLOs

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

PagerDuty

OpsGenie

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Armor

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Helm

PagerDuty

OpsGenie

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

GKE

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Armor

Job description

Experience Required

6-8 years of SRE or infrastructure engineering experience in cloud-native environments.

Mandatory

• Cloud: GCP (GKE, Load Balancing, VPN, IAM)
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog
• Containers Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
• Incident Management: On-call, RCA, SLIs/SLOs
• IaC: Terraform, Helm
• Incident Tools: PagerDuty, OpsGenie

Nice to Have

• GCP Monitoring, Skywalking
• Service Mesh, API Gateway
• GCP Spanner, MongoDB (basic)

Scope

• Drive operational excellence and platform resilience
• Reduce MTTR, increase service availability
• Own incident and RCA processes

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and manage error budgets across services.
• Lead incident management for critical production issues drive root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems.
• Create and maintain runbooks and standard operating procedures for high availability services.
• Design and implement observability frameworks using ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana; drive telemetry adoption.
• Coordinate cross-functional war-room sessions during major incidents and maintain response logs.
• Develop and improve automated system recovery, alert suppression, and escalation logic.
• Use GCP tools like GKE, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Armor to improve performance and security posture.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to build highly available and scalable systems.
• Analyze performance metrics and conduct regular reliability reviews with engineering leads.
• Participate in capacity planning, failover testing, and resilience architecture reviews.