Associate – Forward Deployment Engineer (SRE)
Site Reliability Engineering | Forward Deployed Engineering

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Experience Required
3–5 years.

Job Summary

A hands-on, reliability-first engineer embedded within an enterprise client's team. You will help run and stabilise their production systems on AWS, respond to incidents, and use AI-assisted tooling to keep everything healthy day to day.

Key Responsibilities
Keep production systems reliable for enterprise customers on AWS, and respond quickly when something isn't behaving.
Own monitoring and alerting, and work to the SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets agreed with customers.
Handle production incidents (P0–P3) within SLA and take part in the on-call rotation.
Troubleshoot live issues under pressure, from networking and authentication to container problems.
Operate and maintain Kubernetes clusters, containers, and core AWS services.
Use AI SRE assistants and AIOps tooling to detect and resolve incidents faster.
Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual effort.




Maintain runbooks and post-incident notes, and collaborate with client engineers over Teams, Slack, and email.

Required Qualifications
Proven experience keeping production systems reliable on AWS in an SRE or similar role.
Hands-on experience running Kubernetes and containers in production.
Working knowledge of core AWS services and cloud-native operations.
Experience owning monitoring and observability, and working to SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Experience managing production incidents end to end, including on-call.
Scripting ability for automation (Python and/or Bash).
A genuine understanding of how AI-assisted tools support operations, and comfort using them in incident triage and resolution.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (or actively working towards it).

Preferred Qualifications
Building CI/CD pipelines.
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (or equivalent).
GitOps workflows and Helm.
Incident-man

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