Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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.

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 environment

Must-have skills

SRE, Helm Charts, AWS

Good-to-have skills

Python, Kubernetes