Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Job Description

Job Title

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our engineering team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for maintaining the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of mission-critical applications and infrastructure. The SRE will work closely with development, cloud, and operations teams to automate processes, improve system availability, and drive operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health using observability tools.
• Automate operational tasks using scripting and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Manage incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Define and monitor Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Optimize system performance, reliability, and resource utilization.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for seamless application deployments.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve application resilience.
• Implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
• Ensure security best practices across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Participate in on-call support and production issue management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Systems Administration.
• Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
• Proficiency in scripting/programming languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or PowerShell.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Strong understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, and security principles.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, or ELK Stack.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems.
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform).
• Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or similar certification.
• Understanding of microservices architecture.
• Experience with Chaos Engineering and Reliability Engineering practices.
• Knowledge of database administration and performance tuning.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• VMware, Linux, Unix

Automation & IaC

• Terraform
• Ansible
• CloudFormation
• PowerShell
• Bash
• Python

Containers & Orchestration

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Datadog
• Splunk
• ELK Stack
• New Relic

CI/CD

• Jenkins
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD

Key Competencies

• Problem-solving and troubleshooting
• Incident management
• Automation mindset
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Analytical thinking
• Ownership and accountability
• Continuous improvement mindset

Success Metrics

• System uptime and availability
• Mean Time to Detect (MTTD)
• Mean Time to Resolve (MTTR)
• Service reliability and performance
• Deployment success rate
• Reduction in operational toil through automation

Location: Remote/Hybrid/Onsite
Experience: 4-10+ Years
Employment Type: Full-Time

This JD can be used for hiring Mid-Level to Senior SRE professionals in enterprise cloud and production support environments.