Senior Site Reliability Engineer - GCP
First seen by Alion on Sep 11, 2026.
Experience : 7 - 8 Years
Employment Type : Full-Time
Role : Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - GCP
Job Summary :
We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 7 - 8 years of experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with GCP, Kubernetes, Linux, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, automation, and production operations. The role will involve improving system reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency while working closely with development and platform teams.
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, deploy, and manage highly available and scalable infrastructure on GCP.
- Own production infrastructure, reliability, availability, performance, and operational excellence.
- Build and maintain GKE/Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Automate repetitive operational tasks using Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability using Google Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, and other tools.
- Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical services.
- Participate in production incident management, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and scalability assessments.
- Implement high-availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business-continuity strategies.
- Identify reliability risks and proactively implement solutions to reduce system downtime.
- Work with development teams to improve application reliability and deployment processes.
- Establish and improve operational runbooks, automation, and self-healing mechanisms.
- Support security and compliance requirements across cloud infrastructure.
- Participate in on-call/production support activities when required.
Required Technical Skills :
GCP :
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with GKE, Compute Engine, VPC, IAM, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Monitoring & Logging, Secret Manager.
- Good understanding of GCP networking, IAM, security, and cost optimization.
Kubernetes & Containers :
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and GKE.
- Docker/containerization.
- Kubernetes networking, deployments, services, ingress, configmaps, secrets, RBAC, and troubleshooting.
- Experience with Helm and Kubernetes operators is preferred.
Infrastructure as Code :
- Strong experience with Terraform.
- Experience designing reusable Terraform modules and managing infrastructure through Git-based workflows.
CI/CD & DevOps :
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles.
- Hands-on experience with tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD.
- Experience implementing automated deployment and rollback strategies.
Observability & Reliability :
- Experience with monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry or equivalent tools.
- Strong understanding of SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, RCA.
Linux & Networking :
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Good understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Load Balancing, SSL/TLS, Network troubleshooting, Firewall and security concepts.
Scripting & Automation :
- Strong scripting experience in Python and/or Bash.
- Ability to build automation tools and operational scripts.
Good to Have :
- GCP Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.
- Experience with GitOps and ArgoCD.
- Experience with service mesh such as Istio.
- Experience with SRE frameworks and practices.
- Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing.
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Experience with FinOps/cloud cost optimization.
- Exposure to security best practices and DevSecOps.
- Experience working in 24x7 production environments.
Required Soft Skills :
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent troubleshooting and debugging ability.
- Good communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and take ownership of production systems.
- Strong incident management and decision-making skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Development, Security, Product, and Platform teams.
Education :
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred.
Skills
Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, DevOps, Site Reliability, Cloud, Grafana, Bash Scripting, Google Cloud Platform