Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Python, Java and Automation Specialization)

Job Responsibilities

• Own and improve the reliability, scalability, performance, and operational efficiency of critical OCI Compute services.

• Lead investigation and resolution of complex production incidents; drive mitigation, recovery, RCA, and follow-up improvements.

• Improve service KPIs, SLOs, dashboards, alerting, deployment validation, and operational procedures.

• Build automation and tooling to reduce recurring operational toil and improve production safety.

• Partner with development and infrastructure teams on service architecture, deployment, configuration, and reliability improvements.

• Use observability, telemetry, event correlation, and AIOps capabilities to improve detection, diagnosis, and incident response.

• Support major upgrades, migrations, patching, capacity planning, performance tuning, security vulnerability management and production rollouts.

• Troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues by analyzing service topology, dependencies, configuration, and failure modes.

• Contribute to incident-management practices, operational readiness, and service ownership improvements.

• Mentor team members and act as a technical resource for partner teams.

• Participate in a 12x7 on-call rotation and lead response during customer-impacting incidents.

Mandatory Skills

• Total Experience of 7+ Years

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, Production Engineering, Cloud Operations, Systems Engineering, or a similar role.

• Experience operating and improving highly available distributed systems in production.

• Strong programming or scripting skills in Python, Java, Go, or similar languages.

• Strong hands-on experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure, networking, compute, and storage.

• Experience with production monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logs, metrics, and tracing.

• Experience defining or improving service SLIs, SLOs, KPIs, and operational procedures.

• Strong incident-management, troubleshooting, RCA, and problem-solving skills.

• Experience with deployment pipelines, release validation, automation, and change-management practices.

• Understanding of distributed systems, service dependencies, capacity planning, and performance tuning.

• Ability to work independently on complex technical issues and collaborate across engineering teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with OCI and cloud infrastructure services.

• Experience with AIOps, anomaly detection, event correlation, predictive alerting, or automated remediation.

• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD.

• Experience with service migrations, fleet maintenance, upgrades, patching, or large-scale rollouts.

• Experience with architecture reviews, operational-readiness reviews, and post-incident improvements.

• Experience mentoring engineers or leading technical initiatives across teams.

• Familiarity with security, compliance, and access-control practices in production environments.

Self-Test Questions

• Does the candidate have 5+ years of SRE, Production Engineering, Cloud Operations, or Systems Engineering experience?

• Has the candidate owned or significantly improved a critical production service or infrastructure component?

• Can they lead a complex incident end-to-end: investigation, mitigation, recovery, RCA, and follow-up actions?

• Do they have strong hands-on experience with Linux, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, compute, or storage?

• Are they proficient in Python, Java, Go, or a similar language for automation, tooling, and troubleshooting?

• Have they built or improved automation, CI/CD pipelines, deployment validation, operational tooling, or remediation workflows?

• Do they have experience with monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logs, metrics, tracing, and SLO/KPI-driven reliability improvement?

• Can they work independently on ambiguous technical problems, collaborate across engineering teams, mentor peers, and participate in a 12x7 on-call rotation?

Role Details

Field

Requirement

Role

Site Reliability Engineer 4 (IC4)

Experience

5+ Years

Location

Bangalore Only

Work Mode

Hybrid - 3 days from Office

Primary Skills

Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, Linux, OCI/Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Python/Java/Go, Automation, CI/CD, Monitoring and Observability, Incident Management, RCA, SLOs/SLIs/KPIs, Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, AIOps, Deployment Validation, On-Call Operations, Security Vulnerability Management, Security, Vulnerability

35% Ops, 65% - Automation and Coding

Qualifications

Career Level - IC4

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