SRE Architect

Job Description: 

We are currently seeking a highly skilled SRE Architect with solid experience to help lead transformational initiatives within IT operations, encompassing development as well.  As a crucial figure in this role, you will participate/help designing and implementing cutting-edge SRE solutions, driving the transformation of IT operations organizations to adopt an engineering-centric approach.

 Responsibilities:

 Participate in design, architecture of reliable, scalable, and high-performance systems and services with a focus on operational excellence, availability, and performance.

Evangelize SRE evolution within IT operations and promoting a culture of engineering excellence and best practices.

Define best practices and principles for SRE, including incident management, monitoring, alerting, and automation.

Collaborate with development teams on resiliency to ensure that services and applications are designed with operational reliability in mind.

Implement monitoring systems to assess the performance of applications and infrastructure, and proactively identifying areas for optimization.

Understanding incident and problem management process, post-mortems, and driving improvements to prevent future incidents.

Analyze resource utilization patterns and forecasting future capacity needs to ensure optimal performance and cost-efficiency.

Ensure that SRE practices align with security and compliance requirements and implementing measures to protect systems and data.

Operational excellence with focus on automation and developing tools to streamline operational tasks and increase efficiency.

Provide guidance and mentorship to SRE teams, fostering skill development, and building a strong and capable SRE practice.

Ability to develop close relationship with other operational teams to integrate SRE practices and drive overall operational improvements across enterprise.

Stay up to date on industry trends, new technologies, and best practices in SRE and applying relevant advancements to the organization.

Qualifications:

Around 10-12 years of SRE hands on experience with cloud technologies, development, SRE toolsets and automation

Strong hands-on experience with any Cloud Technology (AWS): Control Tower, Project Setup, Creating Accounts, RDS, SSO

Solid understanding and hands on experience with Docker/Kubernetes

Should have good experience with Linux Commands, GitLab CICD Setup and Terraform (state management, etc)

Monitoring & alerting setup experience with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, ELK etc.

Hands on APM Tool/s experience, preferably Datadog or AppDynamics or Dynatrace

Good understanding of Observability Framework leveraging programmatic SLI/SLO blueprints to standardize the collection of golden signals.

Should have automation (data refresh, releases, DB snapshots) experience using Ansible or any other scripting languages

Experience with following languages (Groovy-DSL, Java, Python, Yaml and microservices architecture)

Good understanding and hands on experience with MQ, Kafka

Experience with Databases (Oracle, MySQL)

Good to have:

Any of the relevant professional certifications – Certified Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, , Google Cloud Professional; DevOps Engineer