Site Reliability Engineer

This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

Min Experience: 5 years

JobType: full-time

We are looking for a skilled and proactive Site Reliability Engineer to help build and maintain highly reliable, scalable, and secure infrastructure and applications. This role will focus on automating operations, improving system performance, and ensuring overall service health by applying modern SRE practices.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Utilize AWS services such as IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, and CloudWatch to build and support scalable cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using Shell scripting or Python.
• Proactively identify, analyze, and troubleshoot complex application, network, and system-level issues.
• Optimize system performance and reliability, with deep expertise in Linux debugging and performance tuning.
• Build automation for system self-healing and recovery mechanisms.
• Develop monitoring and alerting solutions for high-performance and low-latency applications.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement effective CI/CD pipelines.
• Apply SRE principles including service monitoring, alerting, error budget tracking, capacity planning, fault tolerance, automation, and toil reduction.
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve system reliability and engineering processes.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience working with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong command of AWS cloud services with hands-on experience in infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming (Shell or Python preferred).
• In-depth Linux knowledge including tools for diagnostics and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with modern observability tools for monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding and application of SRE concepts and best practices.

Key Skills:

Kubernetes · AWS (IAM, EC2, EKS, S3, CloudWatch) · Linux Debugging · Shell/Python Scripting · Monitoring & Alerting · Automation · CI/CD · Docker · Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) · Performance Tuning

Originally posted on Himalayas