Sr SRE Engineer

Experience Required:

6-8 years of SRE or infrastructure engineering experience in cloud-native environments.

Mandatory:

• Cloud: GCP (GKE, Load Balancing, VPN, IAM)
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog
• Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
• Incident Management: On-call, RCA, SLIs/SLOs
• IaC: Terraform, Helm
• Incident Tools: PagerDuty, OpsGenie

Nice to Have:

• GCP Monitoring, Skywalking
• Service Mesh, API Gateway
• GCP Spanner, MongoDB (basic)

Scope:

• Drive operational excellence and platform resilience
• Reduce MTTR, increase service availability
• Own incident and RCA processes

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Define and measure Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and manage error budgets across services.
• Lead incident management for critical production issues – drive root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems.
• Create and maintain runbooks and standard operating procedures for high availability services.
• Design and implement observability frameworks using ELK, Prometheus, and Grafana; drive telemetry adoption.
• Coordinate cross-functional war-room sessions during major incidents and maintain response logs.
• Develop and improve automated system recovery, alert suppression, and escalation logic.
• Use GCP tools like GKE, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Armor to improve performance and security posture.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Infrastructure teams to build highly available and scalable systems.
• Analyze performance metrics and conduct regular reliability reviews with engineering leads.
• Participate in capacity planning, failover testing, and resilience architecture reviews.