Specialist Software Engineer -Devops SRE

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in monitoring, logging, tracing, and observability platforms . The ideal candidate will design, implement, and operate scalable observability and monitoring solutions to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of business-critical systems.

This role requires hands-on experience with modern observability stacks including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry , and related tools, along with strong operational and automation skills.

Experience – SSE role

4-8 years in DevOps / SRE / Observability roles

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & SRE Responsibilities

·        Design, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and reliable systems

·        Apply SRE principles such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management

·        Automate infrastructure provisioning, monitoring, and alerting processes

·        Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident triage and root cause analysis (RCA)

·        Improve system reliability through proactive monitoring and performance tuning

Monitoring & Observability

·        Build and manage end-to-end observability platforms covering:

o    Metrics

o    Logs

o    Traces

·        Design and implement monitoring frameworks for cloud-native and distributed systems

·        Define alerting strategies to reduce noise and improve mean time to detect (MTTD) and recover (MTTR)

·        Create and maintain dashboards, alerts, and runbooks for operational teams

Tooling & Platform Management

·        Implement and manage observability tools including:

o    Metrics : Prometheus, Thanos

o    Visualization : Grafana

o    Logging : Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK), Fluentd

o    Tracing : Jaeger, Tempo

o    Telemetry : OpenTelemetry

·        Integrate observability tools with CI/CD, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes environments

·        Optimize storage, retention, and performance of observability data

Required Technical Skills

Core Skills

·        Strong experience in DevOps and/or SRE roles

·        Hands-on expertise in:

o    Grafana (dashboards, alerts, data sources)

o    ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

o    Prometheus and metrics-based monitoring

·        Proven experience setting up monitoring and observability frameworks from scratch Observability Stack

·        Practical knowledge of:

o    Prometheus & Thanos

o    Grafana

o    Loki

o    Jaeger & Tempo

o    Elasticsearch & Kibana

o    Fluentd

o    OpenTelemetry (instrumentation and exporters)

·        Understanding of distributed tracing and microservices observability

Platform & Automation

·        Experience with Linux systems administration

·        Familiarity with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

·        Scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)

·        Experience integrating observability with CI/CD pipelines

Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills

·        Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

·        Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

·        Experience working in large-scale distributed systems

·        Exposure to service mesh observability (Istio, Linkerd)

·        Knowledge of security and compliance monitoring

Soft Skills

·        Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills

·        Excellent communication skills for cross-team collaboration

·        Proactive, ownership-driven mindset

• Ability to document designs, processes, and runbooks clearly