Seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join a dedicated operational support team for Kafka and infrastructure engineering organization. engagement with potential to evolve into project-based work as the team matures. The role covers an workplace of ~600 servers plus Kubernetes pods/services, primarily on-premises bare metal infrastructure with a planned transition toward virtualized environments.
Perform vulnerability management and remediation, including patching within defined SLAs (critical vulnerabilities)
Execute OS and Kafka upgrades, reinstalls, and migrations across the environment
Conduct health checks, monitoring, and proactive alert handling across ~600 servers and Kubernetes-based services
Handle change requests and day-to-day operational support tasks
Manage customer support requests and escalations, including on-call rotation coverage
Coordinate with vendors and internal security teams to assess impact and apply fixes for identified vulnerabilities
Develop and improve automation and repeatable procedures to reduce manual operational overhead




Support and administer AWS cloud infrastructure (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EKS/Kubernetes, CloudWatch) as the workplace transitions from on-premises bare metal toward virtualized/cloud infrastructure
Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation) for provisioning and managing AWS resources supporting Kafka and platform services
Own infrastructure reliability and capacity planning across hybrid (on-prem + AWS) environments, including scaling, failover, and disaster recovery readiness
Implement and maintain observability tooling (CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana, or equivalent) for infrastructure and application-level monitoring
Ensure AWS setting security posture - IAM least-privilege access, security group/network hardening, and compliance with vulnerability remediation SLAs
Collaborate with the DevOps/platform team on CI/CD pipeline support for infrastruc

📌 Sre Kafka/infrastructure Operational Support Professional Bengaluru
🏢 Tavant
📍 Bengaluru