Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title : Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead Location : Hinjewadi Phase-1 (WFO)

Experience : 7+ years of experience

Shift Time : 11 : 00 AM to 8 : 00 PM

Working Days : Monday to Friday

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced SRE Lead to drive the reliability, scalability, and performance of our multi-cloud infrastructure spanning AWS and Azure. You will lead a team responsible for building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability systems using GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Datadog.

As the SRE Leader, you will collaborate closely with development, operations, and security teams to ensure our services are highly available, secure, and performant, while fostering a culture of automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of SRE engineers to design, build, and maintain reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure.

Architect and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions primarily using Terraform to manage multi-cloud environments efficiently.

Develop, maintain, and optimize CI / CD pipelines leveraging GitHub Actions to enable fast and reliable software delivery.

Establish and drive best practices in site reliability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response using Datadog and other observability tools.

Collaborate with software engineering teams to improve system reliability through automation, load testing, and performance tuning.

Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; lead incident retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives.

Manage cloud resource costs and optimize usage across multiple cloud providers.

Promote a DevOps culture emphasizing automation, continuous deployment, and proactive incident management.

Stay current with the latest industry trends and technologies in cloud, automation, and SRE practices.

Required Skills

7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles.

Implement dashboards to monitor and track SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; lead incident retrospectives and continuous improvement initiatives.

Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams.

Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms.

Expert in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform with multi-cloud deployments.

Proficient in building and managing CI / CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.

Deep knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, especially Datadog.

Solid understanding of networking, security, container orchestration (Kubernetes is a plus), and cloud-native architectures.

Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar).

Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and capacity planning.

Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills.

Technical Skills

IAC : Terraform

CICD : Git Action, Git workflow and ArgoCD

Observability : Datadog, Prometheus and Fluent bit

POD Orchestration : EKS and EKS Faregate

Cloud : AWS and Azzure

Preferred

Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, or HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

Experience with Kubernetes and service mesh technologies.

Familiarity with chaos engineering and resilience testing.

Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.