SRE

Tekion; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekion is seeking an energetic Site Reliability Engineer I to join the Infrastructure/SRE team in Bengaluru. You will help build a world-class observability platform, automate routine tasks, and ensure platform reliability that keeps developers focused and productive.

You will drive OTEL adoption, standardize logs, and reduce noise in alerts. Strong scripting skills and a curiosity-driven mindset are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• 13 years of experience in SRE/DevOps/Software Engineering.
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge including clusters and deployments.
• Experience with major observability tools and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Drive OpenTelemetry adoption and standardize log formats.
• Automate Kubernetes base images with OTel agents.
• Tackle high cardinality and optimize metric ingestion.
• Build dashboards and alerts in New Relic, Grafana, and Observe.
• Participate in on-call incident response using PagerDuty.
• Code and script in Python, Go, or Bash for automation.

Skills

Kubernetes

Observability tools

Cloud native

Scripting

Curious mindset

Tools

New Relic

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer I (Observability & Automation)

Department: Infrastructure / SRE

Report To: Engineering Manager

About the Role

We are looking for an energetic SRE 1 to join our Infrastructure team! We are on a mission to build a world-class observability platform. If you love digging into data, automating boring tasks, and making systems "talk" to us through metrics and traces, we want to meet you.

You won't just be watching screens; you will be building the tools that keep our platform reliable and helping our developers sleep better at night.

What Youll Be Doing

• Driving OpenTelemetry Adoption: You will help us migrate from legacy agents (like Filebeat) to the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector. Youll tackle cool challenges like standardizing log formats and implementing tail-based sampling.
• Kubernetes Automation: Work on creating standardized base images with pre-configured OTel agents to make life easier for our developers.
• Taming the Data: Help us solve "High Cardinality" issues. Youll refine our metric ingestion strategies to ensure we are storing useful data without exploding our storage costs.
• Tooling & Dashboards: Build actionable dashboards and alerts in New Relic, Observe, and Grafana. Youll help ensure our alerts actually mean something (reducing noise!).
• Incident Response: Participate in the on-call rotation using tools like Pagerduty to detect and resolve issues fast.
• Coding & Scripting: Use Python, Go, or Bash to automate manual operational tasks

What We Are Looking For

• Experience: 13 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering.
• Kubernetes Pro: You know your way around K8s clusters, pods, and deployments.
• Observability Obsessed: Experience with at least one major tool (New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana, or ELK, Datadog).
• Cloud Native: Familiarity with public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Coding Skills: Comfortable writing scripts in Python, Go, or Java.
• Curious Mindset: You ask "why" when a system breaks and "how" we can prevent it next time.

Bonus Points (Nice to Have)

• Experience specifically with OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation.
• Knowledge of Terraform or Ansible.
• Understanding of SLOs/SLIs and Golden Signals.
• Experience optimizing observability costs (ingestion volume, data retention