Overview We are looking for an experienced SRE Architect with a strong security focus to design, build, and govern highly reliable, scalable, resilient, and secure technology platforms. The role combines Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Architecture, DevSecOps, and Cybersecurity , with responsibility for embedding security into every stage of the software and infrastructure lifecycle.

Responsibilities

- Key Responsibilities

SRE & Platform Architecture
- Define and implement enterprise-wide SRE architecture, standards, and best practices.
- Design highly available, scalable, fault-tolerant, and resilient cloud platforms.
- Establish SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, and reliability engineering practices.
- Drive automation of infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, incident response, and operational processes.
- Design disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and resilience strategies.
- Lead capacity planning, performance engineering, and reliability improvements.

Security & DevSecOps
- Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and application platforms.
- Implement DevSecOps practices including SAST, DAST, SCA, container security, secrets management, and IaC security.
- Define secure cloud architecture aligned with Zero Trust principles.
- Implement IAM, least-privilege access, encryption, key management, network segmentation, and workload security.
- Partner with security teams to identify and remediate vulnerabilities and security risks.
- Establish security and compliance guardrails across cloud and on-premise environments.
- Support security incident response, threat detection, and post-incident remediation.

Observability & Operations
- Architect centralized monitoring, logging, tracing, metrics, and security observability.




- Define proactive detection mechanisms for reliability and security incidents.
- Establish automated alerting, incident management, and remediation workflows.
- Lead root-cause analysis and drive permanent corrective actions.
- Develop reliability and security dashboards for engineering and leadership teams.

Cloud & Infrastructure
- Architect secure platforms across AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud.
- Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, or equivalent technologies.
- Design and govern Kubernetes/container platforms and cloud-native workloads.
- Establish secure networking, service connectivity, API security, and platform controls.

Leadership & Governance
- Provide architectural leadership across SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Security teams.
- Define engineering standards, reference architectures, and operational/security policies.
- Mentor SRE, DevOps, and platform engineers.
- Work with engineering, security, product, and business stakeholders to balance reliability, security, performance, and cost.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

- Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering, with significant architecture experience.
- Strong understanding of SRE principles, distributed systems, cloud architecture, and reliability engineering.




- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong Kubernetes and container-platform experience.
- Expertise in CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
- Strong knowledge of Linux, networking, DNS, HTTP/TLS, databases, and distributed systems.
- Experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure as Code technologies.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, Splunk, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of cloud and application security.
- Experience implementing IAM, secrets management, encryption, vulnerability management, and security controls.
- Robust scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.
- Experience designing disaster recovery and high-availability solutions.

Preferred Certifications

- AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect or Security certification.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent.
- CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent security certification.
- SRE/DevOps certifications are an advantage.

Key Success Metrics
- Improved platform availability and reliability.
- Reduction in MTTR and operational incidents.
- Improved security posture and vulnerability remediation times.
- Increased automation and deployment efficiency.
- Strong compliance with security and operational standards.
- Improved observability, resilience, and disaster recovery readiness.

Ideal Candidate The ideal candidate is a security-minded SRE architect who can operate at both strategic and technical levels—designing resilient platforms, embedding security by design, automating operations, and influencing engineering teams toward a culture of reliability, security, and continuous improvement .

📌 SRE Architect- Security (Chennai Metropolitan Area)
🏢 Prodapt
📍 Chennai Metropolitan Area