We are looking for a seasoned and visionary Senior Site Reliability Engineer Architect to lead the architecture and implementation of highly reliable and scalable systems. As a Senior SRE Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our technology infrastructure, driving innovation, and ensuring the optimal performance of our critical applications.

Responsibilities:

System Reliability

• Lead efforts to enhance the reliability, availability, and performance of critical systems
• Perform in-depth analysis of system behavior, identifying areas for improvement and implementing solutions

Automation Frameworks

• Design, implement, and maintain automation tools and frameworks to streamline operational processes
• Drive the integration of observability automation into the CI/CD pipeline

Tooling and Technology Evaluation

• Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance SRE capabilities.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies

Incident Management

• Lead incident response and resolution activities, ensuring timely and effective resolution of system issues
• Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventive measures to mitigate future occurrences

Scalability and Performance

• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to conduct capacity planning and scalability assessments and design solutions for handling current and future growth
• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address capacity-related issues
• Implement performance optimization strategies to ensure optimal system response times

Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to promote a culture of reliability and operational excellence
• Mentor junior team members and actively contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives

Roles & Responsibilities:

Requirements:

Experience

• 15+ years with minimum of 5 years as SRE engineer or in a similar architectural role
• Proven experience in designing and implementing architectural solutions for highly reliable systems

Technical Skills

Must-Have

• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages and Automation - Java / Python / Bash
• Advanced understanding of observability tools and their set up with hands on experience - Preferably New Relic (Others - Dynatrace / Datadog / Prometheus)

Proven experience in designing and implementing robust metrics, logging, and tracing solutions

Complete understanding of setting up SLIs/SLOs/Error Budgets and Alerting

• Complete understating of setting up observability for back-end services - Java Springboot microservices

Good understanding of setting up front-end observability preferably for Angular applications

Complete understanding of setting up observability for business flows

• Good understanding of cloud and container technologies with some hands-on experience - AWS / Docker / ECS / EKS/ Kubernetes
• Good understanding of front-end application frameworks - Preferably Angular / React / JavaScript / AJAX
• Hands on Performance improvement for front-end and back-end applications - preferably Angular and Java related
• Understanding of Distributed Microservices Architecture - Java / Springboot

Nice-To-Have

• Understanding of logging tools - ELK / Splunk
• Understanding of tools like - Gateway / Service Discovery / Circuit breaker etc.
• Knowledge of Automation Tools and CI/CD pipelines - Maven / Git / Ansible / Terraform / Jenkins / Github pipelines
• Understanding of SRE security practices and their implementation in CI/CD pipeline

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Technology (Alight IT)