Tech S and T-Resilience and Reliability Engineer-Senior-GDSF02

EY; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and run resilient, scalable systems. You will define SLOs, automate CI/CD, optimize costs, and implement observability across cloud environments.

Strong Java/J2EE, Linux, and automation scripting skills are required, along with hands-on experience in cloud platforms and modern DevOps practices. You’ll work to maximize reliability and performance while reducing toil, contributing to EY's global IT delivery and cost optimization

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software product engineering principles and systems.
• Hands-on with Java/J2EE, web servers, and major RDBMS like Oracle.
• Proficient in CI/CD and IaC tools and cloud platforms.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and automation.
• Strong knowledge of Linux performance tuning and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with microservices, Spring Boot, and cloud-native patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define SLA/SLO/SLI for a product or service and ensure compliance.
• Incorporate resilient design practices through the product life cycle.
• Automate manual tasks and improve CI/CD workflows.
• Develop observability solutions to track SLA adherence.
• Assist in FinOps and cost optimization for IT infra/ops.
• Handle critical incident management and runbook automation.

Skills

SRE Principles

Java/J2EE

CI/CD

IaC

Cloud platforms

Observability

Linux performance

APM tools

Automation scripting

Git/Jira/Confluence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI/CD

CloudWatch

Job description

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior level)

Description

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a modern way of delivering IT Solutions by imbibing Software engineering principles in Service Delivery to reduce IT Risk to business, improve business resilience, attain predictability & reliability, optimize cost of IT Infra and Ops A Site Reliability Engineer typically has deep software engineering experience encompassing design, build, deploy and manage / maintain an IT solution ensuring resilience, reliability, and performance. An SRE is a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to the development, deployment, and maintenance of applications to maximize system reliability & automation, while improving efficiencies by optimizing resources

Responsibilities

• Defining SLA/SLO/SLI for a product / service
• Engineering in resilient design and implementation practices into solutions as they go through the product life cycle
• Engineering out manual effort (Toil) through the development of automated processes and services (e.g., Automated Management of Systems, CI/CD improvements)
• Developing Observability Solutions to track, report, and measure SLA adherence
• Help Optimize Cost of IT Infra & Operations - FinOps
• Critical Situation management
• SOP / Runbook automation, Toil reduction
• Data Analytics & System trend analysis

Typical Skills And Background

• 7+ years of experience in software product engineering principles, processes and systems
• Hands-on experience in Java / J2EE, one of web server (Apache Tomcat or IBM HTTP Server), one of the application servers (Tomcat/WebSphere), and any major RDBMS like Oracle
• Hands-on experience in at least one CI-CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) and IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible etc.)
• Experience in at least one cloud technology (AWS/Azure/GCP etc. and Docker, Pivotal, Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.) and its reliability tools (Azure AppInsight, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor etc.)
• Experience in Linux (RHEL) operating system performance monitoring parameters and their interpretation, commands used for monitoring
• Experience in Observability - APM tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics etc.), metrics / log consolidation (Splunk) and ELK Stack
• Defining NFRs and SLA/SLO/SLI agreement for a product / platform / services
• Knowledge on queuing models used, thread pools, request servicing processes etc.
• Knowledge in Web Services, SOA, ESB (DataPower), RESTFul
• Knowledge of application design patterns, J2EE application architectures, Microservices, Spring boot & Cloud native architectures
• Proficiency in Java runtimes, Core Java, Garbage collection, JVM parameters tuning
• Experience in performance tuning on Application Servers (Tomcat/WAS)
• Experience in trouble shooting Performance / Scalability / Availability issues
• Experience in Thread dump, heap dump generation & analysis
• Knowledge on Query tuning and database designs & models
• Knowledge at least one automation scripting language like Python
• Mastery in collaborative software development using Git, Jira, Confluence etc.
• AI/ML & Data Analytics knowledge and experience is a desirable

EY | Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.