Principal Site Reliability Engineer

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Reliability and Platform Engineering:

• Design and implement highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure.
• Establish and drive SRE best practices, including SLI, SLO, SLA, error budgets, and reliability reviews.
• Lead architecture decisions for platform scalability, resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Improve system performance, availability, and operational efficiency across production environments.

Infrastructure as Code and Automation:

• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and cloud-native automation frameworks.
• Develop automation solutions using Python, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Drive infrastructure standardization and self-service platform capabilities.
• Automate provisioning, deployments, security controls, and operational workflows.

Kubernetes and Cloud Operations:

• Design, deploy, and manage large-scale Kubernetes environments.
• Implement Helm-based deployment strategies and Kubernetes operational best practices.
• Optimize cluster performance, security, capacity planning, and resource utilization.
• Lead container platform modernization initiatives.

CI/CD and Developer Productivity:

• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI/CD.
• Improve deployment reliability, release automation, and engineering productivity.
• Enable DevSecOps practices across the software delivery lifecycle.

Observability and Incident Management:

• Design and maintain observability platforms using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Establish proactive monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response frameworks.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA), postmortems, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Reduce operational toil through automation and intelligent alerting.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement secure infrastructure practices across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Manage IAM frameworks, secrets management, and privileged access controls.
• Drive adoption of HashiCorp Vault for enterprise-grade secrets management.
• Partner with Security teams to ensure compliance and governance requirements are met.

Leadership and Mentorship:

• Act as a technical leader and trusted advisor across engineering teams.
• Mentor SREs, DevOps Engineers, and Platform Engineers.
• Drive engineering excellence through architecture reviews, technical guidance, and operational best practices.
• Influence long-term platform strategy and infrastructure roadmap.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Proven experience supporting enterprise-scale SaaS platforms.
• Strong background working within product-based organizations.
• Experience managing production environments with high availability and uptime requirements.
• Demonstrated success in driving reliability initiatives across distributed systems.
• Experience handling large-scale incidents, capacity planning, and production operations.
• CI/CD and DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Release automation and deployment orchestration.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Monitoring, alerting, and telemetry design.
• Configuration Management: Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Security: IAM, HashiCorp Vault, Security automation and secrets management.
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL. Performance tuning, backup/recovery, and operational management experience.

Cloud and Infrastructure:

• Strong experience with AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
• Deep expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Containers and Orchestration:

• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Strong expertise with Helm and containerized application deployment strategies.

Programming and Automation:

• Strong coding skills in Python.
• Proficiency in Bash and/or PowerShell scripting.
• Experience building operational tooling and automation frameworks.

Skills

AWS, DevOps, Kubernetes, SRE, Terraform, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, site reliability engineering