Site Reliability Engineer_FLK230525

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer

Department: Engineering / Infrastructure

Reports To: SRE Manager / DevOps Lead

Location: Bangalore, India

Role Summary

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of critical systems. This role involves managing CI/CD pipelines, monitoring production environments, automating operations, and driving platform reliability improvements in collaboration with development and infrastructure teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage alerts and monitoring of critical production systems.
• Operate and enhance CI/CD pipelines and improve deployment and rollback strategies.
• Work with central platform teams on reliability initiatives.
• Automate testing, regression, and build tooling for operational efficiency.
• Execute NFR testing on production systems.
• Plan and implement Debian version migrations with minimal disruption.
  
  

Required Qualifications & Skills

• CI/CD and Packaging Tools:
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Docker, JFrog for packaging and deployment.
• Operating System Expertise:
• Experience in Debian OS migration and upgrade processes.
• Monitoring Systems:
• Knowledge of Grafana, Nagios, and other observability tools.
• Configuration Management:
• Proficiency with Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Version Control:
• Working knowledge of Git and related version control systems.
• Kubernetes:
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, deployment pipelines, and debugging.
• Ability to deploy components with detailed insights into:
• Configuration parameters and system requirements
• Monitoring and alerting needs
• Performance tuning
• Designing for high availability and fault tolerance
• Networking:
• Understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, Multicast, Broadcast.
• Experience with TCPDump, Wireshark for network diagnostics.
• Linux & Databases:
• Strong skills in Linux tools and scripting.
• Familiarity with MySQL and NoSQL database systems.
  
  

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Effective communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams
• Ownership mindset and accountability
• Adaptability to fast-paced and dynamic environments
• Detail-oriented and proactive approach
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Certifications in Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), Linux, or DevOps practices
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Exposure to service mesh, observability stacks, or SRE toolkits
  
  

Key Relationships

• Internal: DevOps, Infrastructure, Software Development, QA, Security Teams
• External: Tool vendors, platform service providers (if applicable)
  
  

Role Dimensions

• Impact on uptime and reliability of business-critical services
• Ownership of CI/CD and production deployment processes
• Contributor to cross-team reliability and scalability initiatives
  
  

Success Measures (KPIs)

• System uptime and availability (SLA adherence)
• Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR) incidents
• Deployment success rate and rollback frequency
• Automation coverage of operational tasks
• Completion of OS migration and infrastructure upgrade projects
  
  

Competency Framework Alignment

• Technical Mastery: Infrastructure, automation, CI/CD, Kubernetes, monitoring
• Execution Excellence: Timely project delivery, process improvements
• Collaboration: Cross-functional team engagement and support
• Resilience: Problem solving under pressure and incident response
• Innovation: Continuous improvement of operational reliability and performance