Site Reliability/DevOps Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 24, 2026.
Role : SRE / DevOps Engineer - Linux | Kubernetes | OpenShift
We are looking for a strong SRE / DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience who has deep hands-on expertise in Linux infrastructure, Kubernetes/OpenShift administration, automation, troubleshooting, and production operations.
Location : India - Remote / Hybrid (Full time role)
Experience : 7+ Years
Role : SRE / DevOps Engineer
Key Responsibilities & Requirements :
- Linux / RHEL Administration
- Strong hands-on experience with Linux, RHEL/CentOS administration and troubleshooting
1. Strong understanding of Linux internals :
- CPU scheduling
- Memory allocation
- Processes & threads
- Networking
- Filesystems
- Container internals
- User-space to kernel-level troubleshooting
2. Kubernetes & OpenShift :
- Hands-on Kubernetes and OpenShift administration
- Cluster operations, deployments, scaling and upgrades
- Networking, storage and RBAC
- Troubleshooting pods, nodes, services and cluster issues
- Strong understanding of production Kubernetes/OpenShift environments
- Containers
- Strong Docker/Podman experience
- Container image creation, optimization and troubleshooting
- Understanding of container runtime and networking concepts
3. Python / Automation :
- Basic to intermediate Python skills
- Scripting, API integration, debugging and testing
- Understanding of SDLC and code quality
- Ability to explain Python concepts and time/space complexity
- Strong Bash scripting experience
4. Infrastructure Automation :
- Hands-on Ansible and Terraform
- Infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
- Build and deployment automation
5. CI/CD & DevOps :
- Git / GitLab
- GitLab CI / GitHub Actions
- CI/CD pipeline development and maintenance
- Build automation and release management
- Networking
6. Strong fundamentals in :
- HTTP
- DNS
- DHCP
- ARP
- VLAN
- VXLAN
- Container networking
- SRE / Production Operations
- Incident management
- Production troubleshooting
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
- SLIs / SLOs
- Reliability engineering
- Performance and availability troubleshooting
- Observability
- Prometheus
- ELK / Sumo Logic
- Logs, metrics and traces
- Monitoring and production issue analysis
7. Infrastructure & Security :
- Cloud and bare-metal infrastructure
- Redfish APIs
- Access control
- Security and compliance
Good to Have :
- ArgoCD / GitOps
- Knative
- Istio
- Advanced OpenShift administration
- Cluster management and upgrades
Ideal Candidate
We are specifically looking for engineers who are strong in Linux troubleshooting and infrastructure internals, rather than candidates focused only on application-level DevOps.
You should be comfortable troubleshooting issues across the full infrastructure stack - from Linux/kernel concepts and networking to containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift and production systems
Skills
Site Reliability, DevOps, Linux, RHEL, System Administration, Python, Kubernetes, OpenShift, IT Infrastructure Automation, Monitoring Tools, Observability Services