This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Salary range: Rs 2500000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 25 - 45 LPA)

Min Experience: 7+ years
Location: Chennai
JobType: full-time

The Senior SRE is responsible for deployment, updates, and operational support for environments hosting our leading client’s cloud-based solutions. This role ensures operational excellence, a seamless client experience, and continuous improvement across infrastructure and delivery processes. The ideal candidate combines robust technical capabilities with the ability to lead delivery through influence and hands-on engineering expertise.

Requirements

What You’ll Do?

Operational Excellence

- Act as a senior technical authority for APAC Site Reliability Engineering activities.

- Drive best practices in reliability, operations, and engineering standards.

- Promote technical excellence, collaboration, and accountability across stakeholders.

Service Reliability & Performance

- Make infrastructure complexity transparent to both internal teams and customers, ensuring a consistently excellent client experience.

- Implement, track, and evolve service performance measures such as SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.

- Anticipate risks related to service availability, capacity, performance regressions, and security vulnerabilities.

- Drive continuous improvement, including leading and facilitating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities.

Delivery & Deployment Management

- Ensure timely execution of deployments, upgrades, maintenance activities, and change requests.

- Anticipate workload, plan deliverables,



and ensure qualification/validation of upcoming tasks.

- Collaborate closely with engineering to improve platform components, automation, and operational processes.

Cost, Automation & Efficiency

- Control and optimise infrastructure and operational expenditure across cloud and on-prem environments.

- Drive automation initiatives and enhance monitoring to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.

- Improve deployment workflows and operational tooling to support scalability and efficiency.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

- Communicate proactively with internal stakeholders including Pre-Sales, Project Management, CSM, and TAM teams.

- Engage with customers as needed to ensure clarity, trust, and high-quality service.

Performance Measures

- Timely delivery of planned activities

- SLA & SLO compliance

- Client satisfaction & feedback

- Operational & cloud cost optimisation

- Continuous improvement of operational practices

What We Need for You to Be Successful?

- Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure

- Containerisation & Orchestration: Kubernetes

- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform

- Configuration Management: Ansible

- Packaging & Deployment: Helm

- Databases: MariaDB, MongoDB

- Monitoring, observability, networking, and cloud security

Preferred Experience & Attributes

- Experience in complex cloud operations, SRE, or DevOps environments

- Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset

- Excellent communication skills

- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Must-have skills

SRE, Helm Charts, AWS

Good-to-have skills

Python, Kubernetes

📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Weekday AI
📍 Chennai