Site Reliability Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Location : Chennai

JobType : full-time

Requirements

What will you do?

• We're looking for a self-motivated , enthusiastic , and hands-on engineer to set up solid DevOps and SRE foundations. If you thrive in a small, high-energy team and want to play a key role in shaping infrastructure and reliability at scale, this is the place for you.
• We’re looking for a hands-on engineer with 3–6 years of experience who has a solid grasp of cloud infrastructure , a strong foundation in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) , and a keen eye for choosing the right tools for the job. You’ll help design, build, and scale resilient infrastructure for a fast-growing, product-driven team.
• Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or CloudFormation .
• Champion observability by defining SLIs, SLOs , and building robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana , and custom telemetry.
• Ensure availability, scalability, and resilience of our SaaS platform and platform services in production.
• Proven ability to improve system observability through the design and instrumentation of system-level metrics , enhancing visibility into system health, performance, and bottlenecks.
• Dive deep into complex system architectures to solve critical performance and reliability challenges.
• Work with developers and product teams to embed NFR (Non-functional Requirements) into every product and feature release.
• Conduct root cause analysis and system-level debugging (primarily on Linux ).
• Build and maintain CI / CD pipelines , automating deployments and infrastructure operations across environments.
• Scale infrastructure to meet growth needs while optimizing cost and performance.
• Take ownership of incident response, on-call rotations , and blameless postmortems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive technical and architectural decision
• Highly self-driven , accountable , and eager to own initiatives end-to-end. Comfortable working in startups or small teams , where flexibility, speed, and autonomy are key. Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.

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