Senior Big Data SRE: Automation & Reliability

PhonePe Group; Hinoba-an; On-site; PHP 1,500,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

PhonePe Limited in the Philippines is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer specialized in Big Data with 7+ years of distributed systems experience. You will manage Linux environments, design automation, and lead on-call incident responses to ensure reliability and security across production clusters.

You will work with Hadoop stack (HDFS, HBase, Kafka, Pinot, etc.), use Puppet/Salt/Ansible, and implement monitoring via ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience managing distributed big data ecosystems.
• Strong Linux expertise including IP, iptables, and IPsec.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Perl, Golang, or Python.
• Hands-on experience with Hadoop stack (HDFS, HBase, Airflow, YARN, Ranger, Kafka, Pinot).
• Familiarity with open-source configuration management and deployment tools such as Puppet, Salt, Chef, or Ansible.
• Solid understanding of networking, open-source technologies, and related tools.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• DevOps tools: Saltstack, Ansible, Docker, Git.
• SRE logging and monitoring tools: ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, Open Telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Manage, maintain, and support incremental changes to Linux/Unix environments.
• Lead on-call rotations and incident responses, conducting root cause analysis and driving postmortem processes.
• Design and implement automation systems for managing big data infrastructure, including provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and patching clusters.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues while identifying root causes and implementing mitigating strategies.
• Design and review scalable and reliable system architectures.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize overall system performance.
• Enforce security standards across systems and infrastructure.
• Set technical direction, drive standardization, and operate independently.
• Ensure availability, performance, and scalability of systems and services through proactive monitoring, maintenance, and capacity planning.
• Resolve, analyze, and respond to system outages and disruptions and implement measures to prevent similar incidents from recurring.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate operational processes, reducing manual workload, increasing efficiency and improving system resilience.
• Monitor and optimize system performance and resource usage, identify and address bottlenecks, and implement best practices for performance tuning.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate best practices for reliability, scalability, and performance into the software development lifecycle.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations, and actively contribute to the organization's technology communities.
• Develop and enforce SRE best practices and principles.
• Align across functional teams on priorities and deliverables.
• Drive automation to enhance operational efficiency.

Skills

Linux

Scripting languages

Big data stack

Configuration management

Networking basics

DevOps tools

Monitoring/observability

Tools

Puppet

Salt

Chef

Ansible

Docker

Git

ELK Stack

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

PhonePe Limited in the Philippines is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer specialized in Big Data with 7+ years of distributed systems experience. You will manage Linux environments, design automation, and lead on-call incident responses to ensure reliability and security across production clusters.

You will work with Hadoop stack (HDFS, HBase, Kafka, Pinot, etc.), use Puppet/Salt/Ansible, and implement monitoring via ELK, Grafana, and Prometheus.