Sails Software Inc

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – AWS

Sails Software Inc Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Software Development · 501-1,000 employees

Jul 15
sre Senior (5-10 yrs) Contractor India
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About the role

The Senior SRE will own the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale production systems while designing fault-tolerant architectures. They will also lead incident response, manage infrastructure as code, and mentor engineering teams to embed reliability into product design.

What they look for

AWS Terraform CloudFormation Kubernetes EKS Docker Python Bash Go Linux Infrastructure as Code CI/CD Observability Chaos Engineering Incident Response System Reliability

Requirements

Candidates must have 7+ years of experience in SRE or DevOps roles with deep hands-on expertise in AWS services and infrastructure automation. Proficiency in Linux, container orchestration, and scripting languages like Python or Go is required, along with a bachelor's degree in a related field.

Full description

SRE- AWS 7+ years Vizag Only- Onsite

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior SRE with strong expertise in AWS to help design, operate, and scale the infrastructure powering our product platforms. This is a mission-critical role in a fast-moving product development environment, where system reliability, automation, and performance are core business drivers.

Key Responsibilities Reliability & Operations Own reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale production systems. Establish SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets for mission-critical services. Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives. Design fault-tolerant architectures and disaster recovery strategies.

Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering Architect, deploy, and manage infrastructure on AWS using IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation). Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance and reliability. Implement multi-region, highly available architectures. Manage container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS).

Automation & DevOps Build automation pipelines for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and scaling. Improve CI/CD pipelines and release engineering processes. Develop tools and scripts to reduce operational toil.

Observability & Performance Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. Drive performance tuning and capacity planning. Lead chaos engineering and resilience testing practices.

Leadership & Mentorship Mentor SREs and DevOps engineers. Partner with Engineering and Product teams to embed reliability into product design.

Required Skills & Experience 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering / DevOps / Infrastructure roles. Deep hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, etc.). Expertise in infrastructure as code: Terraform, CloudFormation. Strong experience with Linux systems, networking, and distributed systems. Experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and microservices environments. Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, Go). Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements.

Soft Skills Strong problem-solving and decision-making ability under pressure. Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration. High ownership and accountability mindset. Ability to thrive in an aggressively-paced product development culture.

Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (preferred).

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