ALLEGION - Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Terraform / Kubernetes

About the role

Allegion India is seeking a highly motivated Sr. Site Reliability Engineer on contract for 6 months who will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our organization's systems and infrastructure, who will work with a team of cross-functional product development engineers to design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient systems and whose expertise in automation, monitoring, and incident response will contribute to the overall stability and efficiency of our technology stack throughout the Allegion product portfolio.

What youll do

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure systems, ensuring maximum uptime and performance.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to build and deploy applications using best practices in reliability, scalability, and security.
• Develop and implement automation tools and frameworks to streamline operational processes, reduce manual intervention, and improve efficiency.
• Monitor and analyse system performance, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to optimize performance and scalability.
• Implement and maintain effective monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to proactively identify and resolve issues before they impact users.
• HandsOn Experience in building CI / CD automated pipelines using GitHUB Actions / Jenkins / GitLab or equivalent platform
• Excellent in Automating workflows or solutions using Python / Go / Shell
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis efforts, driving continuous improvement and preventing future incidents.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and enforce best practices, standards, and guidelines for system reliability and performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to incidents, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact to users and thereby meeting SLAs.
• Plan and devise Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies and implement DR Plans.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health.
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications.
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions.
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications.

What we are looking for :

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Proven experience as a Sr. Site Reliability Engineer or similar role, with a focus on designing and maintaining highly available, reliable and scalable systems.

Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization technologies (Docker, EKS).

Proficient in configuration management tools like Ansible and infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform and CloudFormation.

Experience with monitoring and logging tools (Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sentry.io, CloudWatch, Wiz, etc.) for proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting.

Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.) to automate operational tasks and develop tooling.

Ability to program (Structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Java and JavaScript

Solid understanding of networking principles, protocols, and security best practices.

Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Experience with distributed storage technologies such as NFS, Amazon S3, as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)

Proactive approach to identifying problems, performance bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.

Experience in Agile methodologies

Strong skills in software design, design patterns

Experience in different architecture patterns like client-server / server less computing.

Effective written, verbal and presentation skills with the ability to clearly articulate ideas and concepts.

Self-directed and able to direct others.

Desired Skills & Abilities (Nice to have, but not required) :

Experience with setting up performance / load test environments.

Familiarity with SOC2 audit 7 to 11 Years of experience in CloudOps / SRE / Software Application Development

Preferred Skills : Mandatory Skills :

Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Sentry, Elastic

AWS Cloud Services (EKS, Docker, ProgreSQL RDS, Cloudwatch, EMI, NSG, S3, etc.)

YAML scripting

Java / Javascript

Desired Skills :

Terraform

Python

Shell scripting

Tech / MCA / MSc in Computer Science Engineering

What we offer

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if :

You are seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, theres plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, this is your business, run with it.

You value personal well-being and balance because we do too!

Youre looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.

Work Culture

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers, and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because were required to, but because its the right thing to do

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