This role is for one of the Weekday's clients Salary range: Rs 3000000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 30-45 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. ### Key Responsibilities - Manage deployments, upgrades, maintenance, and operational support for cloud environments. - Ensure high availability, scalability, performance, and reliability of production systems. - Define, monitor, and improve SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs. - Drive automation initiatives and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption. - Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions. - Optimize cloud infrastructure, operational efficiency, and costs. - Enhance monitoring, observability, security, and deployment processes. - Collaborate with Engineering, Project Management, Customer Success, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable services. ### Required Skills - Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud platforms. - Expertise in Kubernetes for container orchestration and cluster management. - Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). - Proficiency in Ansible for configuration management and automation. - Hands-on experience with Helm for Kubernetes application deployments. - Experience managing MariaDB and MongoDB databases in production environments. - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and DevOps practices. - Experience with monitoring, observability, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor). - Good knowledge of Linux administration, networking, DNS, load balancing, and cloud security best practices. - Experience troubleshooting production environments, conducting Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and improving platform reliability. - Understanding of SRE principles, including SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs. - Scripting experience using Bash, Python, or Shell for automation. - Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills. ### Preferred Experience - Experience working in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Operations roles. - Experience managing large-scale, production cloud environments. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment. - Strong analytical mindset with a proactive approach to continuous improvement. ### Must-have skills AWS, Kubernetes, Site Reliability Engineering ### Good-to-have skills Helm Charts, IaC, monitoring