The Role
- The Site Reliability Engineer SRE is responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, scalability, and performance of business-critical applications and infrastructure. The role combines software engineering and operations expertise to automate processes, improve platform stability, and enhance system observability.
What You Will Do
- Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure.
- Monitor production systems and proactively identify performance bottlenecks.
- Manage incident response, root cause analysis RCA, and problem management activities.
- Develop automation scripts and tools to improve operational efficiency.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage cloud infrastructure across AWS and hybrid environments.
- Configure and maintain observability platforms including monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
- Support application deployments and release management processes.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Security, Data, and Product teams to improve system reliability.
- Perform capacity planning and disaster recovery testing.
- Ensure infrastructure and systems comply with security and regulatory requirements.
Requirements
What You Bring
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
Experience
- 4–7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Operations.
- Experience supporting mission-critical financial services or fintech platforms is an advantage.
Technical Skills
- Strong knowledge of AWS services EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code Terraform, CloudFormation.
- Knowledge of containerization technologies Docker, Kubernetes.
- Experience with CI/CD tools GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or ELK Stack.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Experience with scripting languages Python, Bash, PowerShell.
- Understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, VPNs, and security controls.
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
- AWS SysOps Administrator.
- Kubernetes Certifications CKA/CKAD.
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate.
- Key Competencies
- Problem-solving and analytical thinking.
- Incident management and troubleshooting.
- Automation mindset.
- Strong communication and collaboration.
- Attention to detail.
This Role Is Ideal For You If
- You enjoy solving complex infrastructure and reliability challenges.
- You are passionate about automation and reducing operational overhead.
- You thrive in highly available, customer-facing environments where up-time matters.
- You enjoy working across Engineering, Security, Data, and Product teams to improve system performance.
- You are proactive and constantly seek opportunities to improve reliability, scalability, and efficiency.
You May Not Enjoy This Role If
- You prefer manual processes over automation.
- You are uncomfortable responding to production incidents and troubleshooting critical issues.
- You prefer working in isolated environments with limited collaboration.
- You are not interested in continuous learning and evolving cloud technologies.
