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 strong 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 setting Must-have skills SRE, Helm Charts, AWS Good-to-have skills Python, Kubernetes

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