Senior SRE Lead

We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with around 15 years of overall IT experience and a strong background in Microsoft Azure, Terraform, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices. The ideal candidate should possess a deep understanding of SRE principles, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and production reliability. This role requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely with customers and cross-functional teams to ensure highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
• Drive Site Reliability Engineering best practices, including reliability, scalability, observability, automation, and incident management.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for provisioning and maintaining cloud resources.
• Monitor production systems, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement proactive solutions to improve system reliability.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement preventive measures.
• Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to improve deployment processes and operational efficiency.
• Automate operational tasks and reduce manual intervention through scripting and tooling.
• Participate in on-call support and effectively manage critical production incidents.
• Engage directly with customers to understand requirements, communicate technical solutions, and provide operational support.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote SRE best practices across engineering teams.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Around 15 years of overall IT experience.
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Strong conceptual understanding of SRE principles, reliability engineering, observability, and production operations.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services.
• Hands-on expertise in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure automation and configuration management.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident management practices.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production environments and ensuring high system availability.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.