Position Summary : The SRE will work closely with Development, Platform Engineering, Security, and DevOps teams to ensure reliability, performance, scalability, and operational excellence across production environments.

Key Responsibilities : Kubernetes Platform Engineering :

- Design, deploy, and manage large-scale Kubernetes clusters in production environments.

- Administer and optimize Kubernetes networking using:

- Cilium

- Istio Service Mesh

- Kubernetes Ingress Controllers

- Build highly available and resilient container platforms.

- Implement cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, scaling, and capacity planning.

Cloud Infrastructure (GCP) :

- Design and operate cloud-native infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform.

- Manage services such as:

- GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)

- VPC Networking

- IAM

- Cloud Load Balancers

- Cloud Storage

- Monitoring and Logging services

- Ensure security, scalability, and cost optimization of cloud environments.

- Implement multi-setting and multi-region deployment strategies.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) :

- Develop and maintain reusable Terraform modules.
- Automate provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure.
- Implement infrastructure standards and governance.
- Maintain version-controlled infrastructure repositories.
- Ensure repeatable, auditable, and scalable infrastructure deployments.

Kubernetes Package Management (Helm) :

- Standardize deployment practices across teams.
- Manage Helm repositories and release strategies.
- Support blue-green, canary, and rolling deployment methodologies.

GitOps & Continuous Delivery :

- Build and maintain GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
- Implement environment promotion strategies.
- Maintain deployment compliance and auditability.




- Drive CI/CD best practices across engineering teams.

Secrets & Service Discovery Management :

- Implement secure secret injection patterns for Kubernetes workloads.
- Configure and maintain Consul for service discovery and service networking.
- Establish access control and security policies for sensitive workloads.

Monitoring, Observability & Reliability Engineering :

- Build comprehensive observability solutions using:

- Prometheus

- Prometheus Operator

- Grafana

- Loki

- Tempo

- Alloy

- Mimir

- Pyroscope

- Define and implement:

- Service Level Indicators (SLIs)

- Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

- Error Budgets

- Create dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks.

- Conduct root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortems.

- Improve system reliability, performance, and operational visibility.

Incident Response & Operations :

- Participate in on-call rotations.
- Lead incident management during production outages.
- Develop automation to reduce operational toil.
- Create disaster recovery and business continuity procedures.

Automation & Platform Engineering :

- Develop automation scripts and operational tooling.
- Improve platform self-service capabilities.
- Drive reliability engineering best practices.
- Eliminate manual operational processes through automation.

Required Technical Skills : Container & Kubernetes Ecosystem :





- Kubernetes (Production-grade administration)
- Cilium
- Istio Service Mesh
- Kubernetes Ingress Controllers
- Container Networking
- Cluster Security and RBAC

Cloud Platforms :

- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- GKE
- Cloud Networking
- IAM and Security Controls

Infrastructure as Code :

- Terraform
- Infrastructure Automation
- Configuration Management Concepts

Deployment & GitOps :

- ArgoCD
- GitOps Methodologies
- GitLab
- CI/CD Pipelines

Secrets & Service Networking :

- HashiCorp Vault
- Consul

Monitoring & Observability :

- Prometheus
- Prometheus Operator
- Grafana
- Loki
- Tempo
- Alloy
- Mimir
- Pyroscope

Operating Systems & Networking :

- Linux Administration
- TCP/IP
- DNS
- Load Balancing
- SSL/TLS
- Network Troubleshooting

Preferred Qualifications :

- Experience managing large-scale Kubernetes platforms.

- Experience supporting mission-critical production systems.

- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts.

- Knowledge of cloud security best practices.

- Experience implementing SRE principles such as:

- SLI/SLO/Error Budgets

- Capacity Planning

- Incident Management

- Reliability Engineering

- Experience with multi-cluster Kubernetes environments.

- Relevant certifications such as:

- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

- Google Cloud Professional Certifications

- HashiCorp Terraform Associate

Experience

- 5-10+ years of overall infrastructure/platform engineering experience.
- 3-5+ years of hands-on Kubernetes production experience.
- Strong experience in cloud-native platforms, observability, automation, and GitOps-driven operations.

📌 Site Reliability Engineer (Pune)
🏢 InfraCloud Technologies
📍 Pune