Role description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) 7-13 years of overall IT experience with solid focus on Cloud, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering, to design, build, operate, and support highly available, scalable, and resilient systems on the Microsoft Azure platform. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in Azure cloud services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, and observability, while applying SRE best practices to reduce operational toil and improve system reliability.
This role requires close collaboration with platform, application and security teams to ensure operational excellence across cloud-native and containerized workloads.
Key Responsibilities
Own reliability, performance, scalability, and availability of Azure-based systems
Apply SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and postmortems
Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps for infrastructure and applications
Automate operational workflows using Azure Logic Apps, Azure Automation Runbooks, and Automation Jobs
Design, run, and monitor batch jobs and scheduled workloads, including:
Kubernetes Jobs
Kubernetes Cronjobs
Perform cloud operations, troubleshooting, and automation using Azure CLI
Implement monitoring, ing, and observability using Dynatrace
Automate configuration management and routine operational tasks using Ansible, PowerShell, and Python
Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and continuous reliability improvements
Collaborate with development teams supporting .NET and Python applications running on Azure and AKS
Continuously reduce manual effort (toil) through automation and self-healing mechanisms
Required Technical Skills
Cloud Platform (Azure)
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
Azure Compute: Virtual Machines, AKS, App Services, Functions
Azure Storage: Blob St
📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 UST
📍 Chennai