About the Role

Our client, a prominent US multinational in the solar sector with global reach, is seeking a skilled Site Reliability Engineer to join their team in Gurugram. This is a critical hybrid role requiring collaboration across engineering, automation, and data teams to address diverse infrastructure needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain modular, platform-agnostic GitOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage AWS services for multiple engineering teams.
• Deploy and manage custom data store solutions, including sharded MongoDB clusters and Elasticsearch clusters.
• Oversee the deployment and management of Kubernetes resources.
• Implement and manage an end-to-end observability stack, including custom metrics exporters, trace data, application metrics, dashboard design, and querying data from various sources.
• Establish incident response services and design efficient processes.
• Deploy and manage essential platform services such as OPA and Keycloak for Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Champion best practices for high availability, scalability, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes deployments, and GitOps CI/CD pipeline design within AWS environments.

What You Bring

• Proficient hands-on experience with container runtimes like Docker and Linux system administration.
• Experience with web servers (e.g., Nginx, Apache) and cloud platforms, with a preference for AWS.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python and/or Bash) with proven ability to debug and troubleshoot Linux and cloud-native environments.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, exporters).
• Solid understanding of web architecture, distributed systems, and potential single points of failure.
• Familiarity with cloud-native deployment concepts such as high availability, scalability, and bottleneck identification.
• Good fundamental knowledge of networking protocols (SSH, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL) and concepts like load balancing, reverse proxies, and firewalls.

Good to Have

• Experience in backend development, database setup, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes cluster administration and deployments.
• Experience collaborating with SecOps engineers.
• Basic knowledge of Envoy, service meshes (e.g., Istio), and SRE principles like distributed tracing.
• Experience with setting up and using OpenTelemetry, centralized logging, and monitoring systems.

Experience and Notice Period

• Experience: 2-5 years
• Notice Period: 2 months (preference for candidates with less than 15 days notice due to the critical nature of the role).

Technical Skills

• Core: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Kubernetes (K8s), AWS at scale, Networking, Linux System Administration, Scripting (Python highly preferred, Bash, or similar), Good Communication Skills.
• Good-to-Have: Proficiency in Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA), System Architecture, Bare Metal experience.

Eligibility Criteria

• Hard Filter: Graduates from IITs, NITs, and BITs only.