Senior Site Reliability Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Salary range: Rs 3000000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 30-45 LPA)

Min Experience: 7+ years

Location: Chennai

JobType: full-time

The Senior SRE is responsible for deployment, updates, and operational support for environments hosting our leading client’s cloud-based solutions. This role ensures operational excellence, a seamless client experience, and continuous improvement across infrastructure and delivery processes. The ideal candidate combines strong technical capabilities with the ability to lead delivery through influence and hands-on engineering expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage deployments, upgrades, maintenance, and operational support for cloud environments.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability of production systems.
• Define, monitor, and improve SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Drive automation initiatives and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure, operational efficiency, and costs.
• Enhance monitoring, observability, security, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Project Management, Customer Success, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable services.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS  cloud platforms.
• Expertise in Kubernetes for container orchestration and cluster management.
• Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Proficiency in Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Hands-on experience with Helm for Kubernetes application deployments.
• Experience managing MariaDB and MongoDB databases in production environments.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and DevOps practices.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor).
• Good knowledge of Linux administration, networking, DNS, load balancing, and cloud security best practices.
• Experience troubleshooting production environments, conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and improving platform reliability.
• Understanding of SRE principles, including SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Scripting experience using Bash, Python, or Shell for automation.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience working in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Operations roles.
• Experience managing large-scale, production cloud environments.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment.
• Strong analytical mindset with a proactive approach to continuous improvement.

Must-have skills

AWS, Kubernetes, Site Reliability Engineering

Good-to-have skills

Helm Charts, IaC, monitoring