Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Core IT Infrastructure

Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Core IT Infrastructure Location: Chennai Work mode: On-site (full Time) Experience: 6+ year's Key Responsibilities Infrastructure Reliability & Operations • Design, implement, and maintain highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructure • Ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and security of core IT systems • Monitor system health, capacity, and performance using proactive observability practices • Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews Automation & SRE Development • Develop and maintain automation tools, scripts, and frameworks to reduce manual operations • Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation • Build self-healing systems and automate repetitive operational tasks • Improve deployment pipelines and operational workflows through engineering solutions DevOps & Platform Engineering • Collaborate with DevOps, development, and security teams to support CI/CD pipelines • Enable seamless application deployments with minimal downtime • Support containerized and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) • Implement best practices for configuration management and environment consistency Monitoring, Observability & Performance • Design and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems • Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs • Optimize system performance, capacity planning, and cost efficiency • Enhance observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, or similar Security & Compliance • Implement infrastructure security best practices • Collaborate with security teams on vulnerability management and compliance requirements • Ensure secure access, identity management, and audit readiness Required Skills & Qualifications Technical Skills • Strong experience in Linux/Unix system administration • Proficiency in programming/scripting (Python, Go, Bash, Shell, or similar) • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration • Knowledge of networking concepts (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, firewalls) • Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools