Site Reliability Engineer with GCP

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) GCP

Experience: 57 Years Level: Senior SRE / SRE III Location: India / Hybrid as applicable

Role Summary

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong experience in Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, production reliability, and incident management. The role will support platform modernization, production readiness, operational excellence, and reliability engineering across cloud-hosted applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct architecture and production readiness reviews for new and modernized applications.
• Enable and support CI/CD pipelines for reliable application deployments.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and observability.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, and reliability improvements.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, operational procedures, and incident response processes.
• Support Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, failover, and recovery planning.
• Perform production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Support Dev and Integration environments and assist new development team members.
• Participate in production go-lives, post-production watch, operational handover, and on-call readiness.
• Train and support operations/on-call teams for smooth transition to BAU support.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform:
• GCE
• GKE / Kubernetes
• Cloud Load Balancing
• Cloud Operations / Monitoring
• Log Explorer
• Cloud Functions
• IAM and networking fundamentals
• Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Good scripting experience using Python and/or Shell scripting.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with Nginx, Tomcat, or similar application/web servers.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Google Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch / ELK.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD, Git-based workflows, deployment automation, and release management.
• Good understanding of Google SRE principles, including SLI/SLO, error budgets, toil reduction, automation, and reliability.
• Strong analytical, debugging, incident-management, and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have

• Understanding of databases such as Oracle, relational databases, Couchbase, Datastore, or Spanner.
• Exposure to Java-based applications and JVM troubleshooting.
• Experience with ServiceNow, Change Management, ITIL processes, and operational runbooks.
• Exposure to Kubernetes reliability, autoscaling, resilience, and performance engineering.
• Experience using AI-assisted or Agentic AI tools for operations, incident analysis, automation, or troubleshooting.

Strategic Focus Areas

• Platform Modernization
• Cloud / Connectivity Upgrades
• Reliability & Operational Excellence
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code
• Observability & Incident Reduction
• Agentic AI / AI-assisted SRE Operations