SRE Engineer

We are seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering to take end-to-end ownership of our retail eCommerce platform's operational excellence. You will drive SRE culture across engineering teams, champion observability, and work with a cross-functional onsite/offshore team to deliver exceptional uptime, performance, and release velocity. This role blends deep technical expertise - you'll be equally comfortable reviewing Kubernetes manifests, tuning Akamai rules, and presenting SLO dashboards to senior leadership

Must have skills and Technologies

Core Technical Skills

SRE Practices & Leadership

• Should have Development experience in an E-Commerce system built on Java/Microservices

• SLI / SLO / Error Budget management

• Akamai CDN (edge config, WAF, TLS, traffic Mgmt)

• Incident Management & Blameless Post-Mortems

• AWS Core Services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)

• Performance tuning & capacity planning

• Kubernetes / Amazon EKS (production operations)

• AWS IAM, VPC, Security Groups, KMS

• Jenkins CI/CD (pipeline design & optimization)

• Container security & image scanning

• Splunk APM & Splunk Cloud (dashboards, alerts)

• Monitoring stack design (metrics, logs, traces)

• Redis & Memcached (distributed caching strategy)

• Distributed systems troubleshooting at scale

• CloudFormation / Auto Scaling Groups

• Cross-team technical leadership & mentoring

• Java and Microservices architecture & service mesh

Preferred / Nice to have skills

Python, Bash, JavaScript, Java, Terraform, AWS CDK

Open Telemetry, Chaos Engineering, GitOps / ArgoCD, PCI-DSS, SOC 2

NGINX / Apache, Service Mesh (Istio), Dynatrace / Datadog, JIRA / Confluence

• Experience supporting or developing eCommerce web applications (JavaScript & Java)
• Familiarity with accessibility and compliance standards in retail platforms
• Prior experience in high-GMV retail or marketplace environments
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering experience in production environments
• Proven track record managing large-scale AWS cloud-native microservices architecture
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional or Solutions Architect (preferred)
• CKA / CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator / Developer) is a strong plus