Lead DevOps

Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Experience: 7+ Years Location: Delhi NCR | Hybrid Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role We are looking for a hands-on Lead SRE who can own production reliability end-to-end, beyond just managing DevOps tools and infrastructure. The ideal candidate should have strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, incident management, scalability, and distributed systems in high-traffic or high-transaction production environments. This is a technical leadership role where you will remain hands-on while mentoring the SRE/DevOps team and driving reliability practices across engineering.

Key Responsibilities Lead and mentor the DevOps/SRE team and establish engineering best practices. Own platform reliability, availability, scalability, and operational excellence. Design and operate highly available cloud infrastructure. Build and manage production-grade Kubernetes/EKS environments. Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools. Establish observability across monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting. Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services. Lead production incidents, RCA, and postmortems. Improve resilience through automation, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and performance engineering. Partner with engineering teams to improve application reliability and operational readiness. Drive cloud cost optimisation without compromising reliability. Ensure infrastructure security, compliance, and operational governance. Champion DevSecOps practices. Standardise deployment, release management, and infrastructure governance. Evaluate and adopt modern cloud-native and platform engineering technologies.

Required Skills & Experience 7+ years of relevant engineering experience with strong production infrastructure ownership. Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes/EKS. Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools. Strong understanding of CI/CD and deployment automation. Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Datadog, or New Relic. Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Bash, or Go. Experience managing production incidents and implementing SRE practices. Understanding of cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and infrastructure security. Understanding of database reliability, backups, replication, and disaster recovery. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Experience working with high-traffic or high-transaction production systems.

Good to Have Experience building or scaling an SRE function. Service mesh experience with Istio/Linkerd. Exposure to Kafka, SQS, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch and distributed messaging systems. Experience with Platform Engineering / Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs). Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost optimisation. AWS, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications. Experience in exchange, brokerage, FinTech, gaming, or other low-latency/high-availability environments.

Leadership Expectations Remain hands-on and lead by example. Mentor SRE/DevOps and engineering teams. Drive an automation-first approach. Work closely with Engineering, Security, QA, and Product teams.