SRE Practice Lead

Coforge; Dadri; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a seasoned SRE Practice Lead to drive reliability engineering transformation across enterprise clients through consulting, solutioning, presales, and delivery leadership.

The ideal candidate has built and scaled SRE capabilities within engineering services or system integration, partnering with clients to modernize operations via cloud-native engineering, observability, automation, platform engineering, and AI-enabled reliability.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of experience in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure transformation.
• Experience in engineering services or SI environments is highly preferred.
• Strong customer-facing skills with presales and delivery ownership.
• Proven leadership of large-scale transformation programs.
• Expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.

Responsibilities

• Define and scale enterprise-wide SRE strategies, frameworks, operating models, and best practices.
• Lead transformation engagements moving clients to automation-first reliability models.
• Establish reusable assets, accelerators, reference architectures, and service offerings.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled SRE, predictive operations, and self-healing platforms.
• Partner with sales to develop SRE, observability, platform engineering, and cloud transformation solutions.
• Lead customer workshops, discovery sessions, assessments, and executive discussions.
• Own solution architecture, effort estimation, commercials, and RFP responses.
• Present strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and value realization models to stakeholders.
• Support deal pursuits through PoCs, demonstrations, and technical due diligence.

Skills

SRE

Reliability Engineering Frameworks

SLI / SLO / Error Budget Management

Incident Management & RCA

Service Resilience & Availability

Capacity Planning

Cloud & Platform Engineering

DevOps & Automation

Observability & AIOps

COE Setup

Competency Development

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

IaC

CI/CD Toolchains

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

Job Title: SRE Practice Lead – Engineering Services

Skills: SRE, Reliability Engineering Frameworks, SLI / SLO / Error Budget Management, Incident Management & RCA, Service Resilience & Availability Engineering, Capacity Planning, Cloud & Platform Engineering, DevOps & Automation, Observability & AIOps, COE Setup, Competency Development

Experience: 18+ Years

Location: Greater Noida

Job Summary:

We are seeking a seasoned SRE Practice Lead to drive Reliability Engineering transformation across enterprise clients through a combination of consulting, solutioning, presales, and delivery leadership.

This role requires a leader who has built and scaled SRE capabilities within an engineering services or system integration environment and has successfully partnered with clients to modernize operations through cloud-native engineering, observability, automation, platform engineering, and AI-enabled reliability practices. The ideal candidate should possess strong customer-facing experience, hands-on solution architecture capabilities, and the ability to lead end-to-end transformation initiatives, from presales and consulting through execution and value realization.

Note: Candidates from engineering services, digital engineering, cloud transformation, infrastructure modernization, or system integration organizations will be strongly preferred. Candidates whose experience is primarily limited to governance, enterprise architecture, or captive/shared-services environments may not be suitable unless they demonstrate substantial presales and delivery ownership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and scale enterprise-wide SRE strategies, frameworks, operating models, and best practices
• Lead transformation engagements that move clients from traditional support-centric operations to engineering-led, automation-first reliability models
• Establish reusable assets, accelerators, reference architectures, and service offerings aligned to modern managed services and digital engineering
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled SRE practices, predictive operations, intelligent automation, and self-healing platforms
• Partner with sales and account teams to develop winning SRE, observability, platform engineering, and cloud transformation solutions
• Lead customer workshops, discovery sessions, assessments, and executive-level discussions
• Own solution architecture, effort estimation, commercials, response to RFPs/RFIs, and technical proposals
• Present solution strategies, transformation roadmaps, business cases, and value realization models to customer stakeholders
• Support deal pursuits through Proof of Concepts, demonstrations, solution reviews, and technical due diligence

Engineering & Delivery Leadership:

• Lead large-scale SRE and platform engineering programs across cloud-native and distributed environments
• Design highly resilient, scalable, self-healing systems leveraging Kubernetes, containers, cloud services, observability platforms, and modern DevOps toolchains
• Drive implementation of reliability metrics including SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, MTTR reduction, and operational excellence initiatives
• Govern delivery quality, transformation outcomes, stakeholder management, and customer success
• Drive automation across provisioning, deployment, incident response, monitoring, and operational workflows

Customer Consulting:

• Advise customers on SRE maturity assessments, operating model transformation, cloud adoption, observability strategy, and reliability roadmaps
• Articulate business outcomes around availability, performance, productivity, operational efficiency, and cost optimization
• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leadership, architecture teams, and executive stakeholders

People & Capability Development:

• Build and mentor high-performing SRE and platform engineering teams
• Define capability roadmaps, learning paths, certifications, and engineering standards
• Foster a culture of reliability, automation, innovation, and continuous improvement
• 15+ years of experience across SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Transformation
• Strong experience working within global engineering services, digital engineering, or system integration organizations
• Proven experience leading client-facing solutioning, architecture discussions, consulting engagements, and presales pursuits
• Demonstrated ownership of large transformation programs from proposal stage through delivery execution
• Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP environments
• Deep understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, Observability, and Reliability Engineering
• Experience designing cloud-native platforms using Kubernetes, containers, IaC, CI/CD, and automation frameworks

Preferred Skills:

• Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, CI/CD toolchains
• Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platform experience
• AI-driven operations, AIOps, predictive monitoring, and intelligent automation
• Executive stakeholder management and consulting skills