SRE Engineering Manager

Ascendion; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in India to lead cloud solution options, drive automation, and ensure reliable production workloads. You will work with Azure/AWS/GCP, implement IaC, and mentor teams on best practices in deployment, monitoring, and security.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, documentation, and staying current with industry standards in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in IT-related fields.
• 4+ years in DevOps or SRE roles on a major cloud platform.
• BSc+ in Engineering/CS/IT; advanced degree preferred.
• Industry cloud certifications preferred (Azure; AWS/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Providing expertise on technical solution options for serverless, containers, and big data.
• Staying up-to-date on internal and industry best practices.
• Evangelizing deployment automation best practices.
• Improving standardization and automation in maturing processes.
• Performance testing and tuning for production workloads.
• Assisting in information security procedures to reduce attack surfaces.
• Augmenting project and system documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps leadership

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

IaC Terraform

Kubernetes

Security best practices

Communication

Education

BSc+ in Engineering/Computer Science/IT

Cloud Dev/Architect certification (Azure preferred)

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Git/GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Azure Storage Explorer

MySQL Workbench

Maven

JFrog

Terraform

ARM templates

Job description

• Providing expertise on technical solution options, and contributing to decision-making discussions in areas such as serverless computing, containerized workloads, and big data
• Remaining up-to-date on internal and industry-wide best practices related to those solutions
• Improving standardization and automation within maturing processes to enhance efficiency
• Performance testing and tuning to ensure production workloads are supported
• Assisting in the development and/or implementation of comprehensive information security procedures and practices to reduce attack surfaces and comply with best practices
• Augmenting project and systems documentation for technical and non-technical audiences

Site Reliability Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Providing expertise on technical solution options, and contributing to decision-making discussions in areas such as serverless computing, containerized workloads, and big data
• Remaining up-to-date on internal and industry-wide best practices related to those solutions
• Evangelizing best practices for deployment automation
• Improving standardization and automation within maturing processes to enhance efficiency
• Performance testing and tuning to ensure production workloads are supported
• Assisting in the development and/or implementation of comprehensive information security procedures and practices to reduce attack surfaces and comply with best practices
• Augmenting project and systems documentation for technical and non-technical audiences

High-Value Professional Experience And Skills

• Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on-prem to cloud
• Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs
• Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals
• Familiarity with current Microsoft Azure solutions; AWS and GCP experience also considered
• Automated CI/CD pipelines (Prefer GitHub Actions; Related: Jenkins, Argo CD)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (Prefer Terraform; Related: Ansible, Puppet, ARM templates)
• Containerized workloads (Prefer AKS & Helm; Related: EKS, other K8s distributions, Docker, JFrog)
• Serverless solutions (e.g. Logic Apps, Function Apps, Functions, WebJobs, AWS Lambda)
• Logging and monitoring tools (e.g., Fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
• Network Security (e.g. Azure Policy, Active Directory/RBAC, ACLs, NSG rules, private endpoints)
• Big Data Analytics (e.g., Databricks, Synapse)

Other Desirable Professional Experience And Skills

• Strong and enthusiastic technologist, able to demonstrate broad technical cloud knowledge
• Ability to act as a point of expertise, sharing knowledge and advising on best practices
• Strong budgeting/finance skills and experience with cost management
• Multi-component system integration and troubleshooting
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Secrets management (Prefer Hashicorp Vault; Related: Azure Key Vault, Secrets Manager)
• Kubernetes service meshes (Prefer Linkerd; Related: Istio, Traefik mesh)
• Coding/scripting (e.g., Linux/Bash/Sh, Windows/PowerShell/Batch, Python, Java)
• Other products in use: Jira, Confluence, Azure Storage Explorer, MySQL Workbench, Maven

Basic Professional Experience And Skills

• Knowledge of SDLC and change control, and associated procedures
• Common source code control tools and repositories (e.g., Git/GitHub/GitLab, VS Code, SVN)
• Ability to describe and discuss technical solutions with various audiences

Required Education And Length Of Professional Experience

• 6+ years professional experience in IT related fields
• 4+ years professional experience in DevOps or SRE roles on a major cloud platform
• BSc+ in Engineering/Computer Science/IT, advanced degree preferred
• Industry certification for Cloud Developers/Architects (Prefer Azure; Related: AWS, GCP)