SRE Engineer II

Rackspace Technology; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Rackspace Technology in Hyderabad is seeking an SRE L2 to own reliability, incident response, and automation across production infrastructure. You will serve as an escalation point, drive RCA, and reduce toil through scripting and tooling.

You'll monitor system health, ensure SLA/SLO adherence, and collaborate with development teams on deployment reliability and capacity planning. The role requires 3–8 years of hands-on Linux, cloud, and networking expertise and is on-site at Hyderabad.

Qualifications

• Hands-on with Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) — systemd, process management, file systems, performance tuning.
• Cloud experience on AWS/Azure/GCP — compute, storage, IAM, networking, and managed services.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation, API interaction, and tooling.
• Strong TCP/IP internals— handshake, states, NAT, routing, DNS, TLS/SSL.
• Deep troubleshooting of HTTP/HTTPS, curl, logs, and reverse proxies (Nginx/HAProxy).
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK) and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Own L2 incident response, RCA, and post‑mortems for production issues.
• Monitor system health and maintain SLA/SLO adherence.
• Automate operational tasks to eliminate repetitive toil.
• Collaborate with dev teams on deployment reliability and capacity planning.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and maintain runbooks.

Skills

Linux

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Python

Bash

TCP/IP networking

HTTP troubleshooting

Observability

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK

tcpdump

Wireshark

curl

Nginx

HAProxy

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

About The Role

We're looking for an SRE L2 to own reliability, incident response, and automation across our production infrastructure. You'll serve as an escalation point, drive root cause analysis, and reduce toil through scripting and tooling.

Work Shift

24/7

Site Reliability Engineer

L2

Location

Hyderabad

Mode of Work

Work from Office

Experience

3–8 Years

Key Responsibilities

• Own L2 incident response, RCA, and post‑mortems for production issues.
• Monitor system health and maintain SLA/SLO adherence.
• Automate operational tasks to eliminate repetitive toil.
• Collaborate with dev teams on deployment reliability and capacity planning.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and maintain runbooks.

Required Skills

Operating Systems Hands‑on with Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) — systemd, process management, file systems, performance tuning. Working knowledge of Windows Server and event log analysis. Cloud Practical experience on AWS / Azure / GCP — compute, storage, IAM, networking, and managed services. Familiarity with Terraform or equivalent IaC tools. Scripting & Automation Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation, API interaction, and operational tooling. Exposure to Ansible or similar config management is a plus. Network Troubleshooting (In‑Depth) Strong command of TCP/IP internals — handshake lifecycle, connection states (TIME_WAIT, CLOSE_WAIT, SYN_FLOOD), packet flow, and socket behaviour. Hands‑on with tools like tcpdump, Wireshark, netstat/ss, traceroute, mtr, and dig. Solid understanding of DNS resolution, TLS/SSL negotiation, NAT, firewalls, and routing. Able to diagnose latency, packet loss, port exhaustion, and network‑level bottlenecks at the OS and infrastructure layer. Application & HTTP Troubleshooting Deep understanding of HTTP/HTTPS methods, status codes, headers, and request lifecycle. Comfortable debugging through curl, Postman, access logs, and reverse proxy configs (Nginx / HAProxy). Observability Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK. Ability to build dashboards, configure meaningful alerts, and trace issues end‑to‑end.

Good to Have

• Kubernetes / Docker experience.
• Familiarity with message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Basic database troubleshooting (MySQL / PostgreSQL / Redis).
• ITIL fundamentals and ITSM tools (Jira SM / ServiceNow).

Soft Skills

Strong analytical thinking, clear communication under pressure, and a bias toward automation and continuous improvement.

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end‑to‑end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world‑class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.

More on Rackspace Technology

Though we’re all different, Rackers thrive through our connection to a central goal: to be a valued member of a winning team on an inspiring mission. We bring our whole selves to work every day. And we embrace the notion that unique perspectives fuel innovation and enable us to best serve our customers and communities around the globe. We are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.