Senior Site Reliability Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 23, 2026.
Role Summary :
We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, platform reliability, automation, observability, and production support.
This role focuses on improving service reliability through SLIs/SLOs and error budgets, reducing operational toil through automation, and partnering with global engineering teams to ensure resilient, scalable, and secure platforms.
Reliability Engineering :
- Define, measure, and report SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
- Drive service reliability improvements and systematically reduce operational toil through automation.
- Own capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability initiatives.
- Lead blameless postmortems, root cause analyses, and corrective action tracking.
Platform Reliability & Automation :
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
- Operate and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms.
- Deploy and support containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible.
- Manage artifacts and repositories using JFrog Artifactory.
Observability & Production Support :
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
- Provide L2/L3 production support, incident management, troubleshooting, and RCA.
- Participate in on-call rotations supporting critical production services.
- Support PostgreSQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ environments, including high availability, backups, replication, and performance tuning.
Collaboration :
- Partner with Development, QA, Product, Operations, and global engineering teams.
- Ensure platform availability, scalability, security, and performance.
Mandatory Skills & Experience :
- 8 - 12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with : Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash.
- Strong understanding of Networking & Security.
- Experience in L2/L3 production support, incident management, and root cause analysis.
- Experience working with global teams across multiple time zones.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and ownership mindset.
- Willingness to work from the Bangalore ITPL office, 5 days a week.
Good to Have :
- Experience with AI/GenAI concepts and AIOps practices.
- Exposure to chaos engineering and resilience testing.
- Azure (AZ-104/AZ-400), CKA, or CKAD certifications.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
Skills
Site Reliability, Azure, Kubernetes, IT Automation, CI/CD Pipeline, Cloud Infrastructure, Observability Services, Production Support, PostgreSQL, Docker, Cloud Services