Overview

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the DevOps/SRE team and establish engineering best practices.
• Own platform reliability, availability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Design and operate highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Build and manage production-grade Kubernetes/EKS environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.
• Establish observability across monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
• Lead production incidents, RCA, and postmortems.
• Improve resilience through automation, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance engineering.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve application reliability and operational readiness.
• Drive cloud cost optimisation without compromising reliability.
• Ensure infrastructure security, compliance, and operational governance.
• Champion DevSecOps practices.
• Standardise deployment, release management, and infrastructure governance.
• Evaluate and adopt modern cloud-native and platform engineering technologies.

Qualifications

• Location: Delhi NCR | Hybrid
• Employment Type: Full-time
• About the Role
• We are looking for a hands-on Lead SRE who can own production reliability end-to-end, beyond just managing DevOps tools and infrastructure.
• The ideal candidate should have strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, incident management, scalability, and distributed systems in high-traffic or high-transaction production environments.
• This is a technical leadership role where you will remain hands-on while mentoring the SRE/DevOps team and driving reliability practices across engineering.
• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience with strong production infrastructure ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and infrastructure security.
• Understanding of database reliability, backups, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Good to Have
• Service mesh experience with Istio/Linkerd.
• Exposure to Kafka, SQS, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and distributed messaging systems.
• Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimisation.
• AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications.
• Remain hands-on and lead by example.
• Mentor SRE/DevOps and engineering teams.
• Drive an automation-first approach.
• Work closely with Engineering, Security, QA, and Product teams.
• Build a culture of ownership, reliability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.