About Position:

We are seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to enhance the reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence of cloud-native services. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building and operating enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms, managing production workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run, implementing observability solutions, and driving automation initiatives that improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency. This role requires deep expertise in cloud-native technologies, infrastructure automation, incident management, and modern SRE practices.

- Role: Site Reliability Engineer (GCP)
- Location: Hyderabad
- Experience: 8 to 12 Years
- Job Type: Full-Time Employment

What You'll Do:

- Design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and reliable CI/CD pipelines across Development, Test, and Production environments.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve pipeline failures, deployment issues, release bottlenecks, and workplace drift.
- Implement deployment automation, progressive delivery strategies, rollback mechanisms, release gates, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Build, deploy, and support production workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Cloud Run.
- Manage containerized application environments with a focus on scalability, availability, networking, configuration management, and security.
- Coordinate application deployments with development teams and manage release readiness activities.
- Provide production support and lead incident management activities including triage, escalation, communication, recovery, and post-incident reviews.
- Define and enhance observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets.
- Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures and long-term reliability improvements.
- Build proof-of-concepts and automation solutions that reduce operational toil and improve Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering practices including capacity planning, resilience testing, reliability reviews, and operational readiness assessments.
- Collaborate with globally distributed engineering, platform, and operations teams.




- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- Maintain platform security, governance, compliance, and cloud infrastructure best practices.

Expertise You'll Bring:

- 8 to 12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Operations, or related disciplines.
- Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Tekton, and Google Cloud Build.
- Extensive hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Strong expertise with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and Kubernetes-based application deployments.
- Experience managing Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, IAM, VPC Networking, Cloud Monitoring, and Cloud Logging services.
- Strong experience deploying and operating containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, Go, or similar programming languages.
- Strong understanding of Git workflows, YAML, source code management, and release management practices.
- Experience supporting mission-critical production environments and managing incident response processes.
- Expertise in observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and cloud-native operational practices.
- Hands-on experience defining and managing Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Error Budgets, and reliability metrics.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar frameworks.
- Understanding of Policy-as-Code, governance controls, and infrastructure compliance standards.
- Experience with observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Dynatrace, and Splunk.
- Hands-on experience implementing automation frameworks, self-healing solutions, ChatOps workflows,



and operational runbooks.
- Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills across distributed and cloud-native systems.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, scalability engineering, and resilience testing.
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles and operational best practices.
- Ability to work effectively with developers, architects, platform teams, business stakeholders, and distributed delivery teams.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Google Cloud certifications or equivalent enterprise GCP experience will be an added advantage.
- Passion for reliability engineering, cloud automation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Benefits:

- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
- Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
- Annual health check-ups
- Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

- We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
- Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
- If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

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📌 Site Reliability Engineer (GCP) (Hyderabad)
🏢 Persistent Systems
📍 Hyderabad