Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and microservices deployment. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Amazon EKS, Jenkins, Helm, Linux, and AWS infrastructure services, along with the ability to troubleshoot complex production issues in a multi-tier application environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot microservices running on Amazon EKS.
• Work with AWS services such as EKS, Redis, Aurora RDS, ActiveMQ, and other cloud infrastructure components.
• Build and maintain Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for microservices deployment.
• Manage application deployments using Helm charts.
• Troubleshoot Kubernetes-related issues including pod failures, deployments, services, networking, resource constraints, and application availability.
• Configure and manage Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) and understand Kubernetes pod scaling mechanisms.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health and proactively identify performance and reliability issues.
• Troubleshoot Linux, application, infrastructure, and deployment-related issues across production environments.
• Understand and support end-to-end multi-tier application architecture, including application, database, messaging, networking, and infrastructure layers.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, and application teams to resolve production incidents and improve system reliability.
• Automate repetitive operational activities and continuously improve deployment and operational processes.
• Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and implementation of permanent fixes.

Must Have

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a related role.
• Hands-on experience using and preferably provisioning AWS services such as:
• Amazon EKS
• Redis
• Aurora RDS
• ActiveMQ
• Strong hands-on experience with microservices deployment.
• Experience developing and managing Jenkins pipelines for CI/CD.
• Hands-on experience with Helm for Kubernetes application deployment.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of AWS infrastructure and cloud-native application environments.

Should Have

• Hands-on experience deploying microservices in Amazon EKS clusters.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for Kubernetes and EKS-related production issues.
• Practical knowledge of HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaler) and Kubernetes pod scaling.
• Hands-on experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end multi-tier application architecture.
• Good understanding of networking, application dependencies, databases, messaging systems, and cloud infrastructure.

Nice to Have

• Experience working on Banking / Financial Services applications.
• Hands-on experience with Karpenter for Kubernetes node provisioning and scaling.
• Experience working with Amazon RDS/Aurora.
• Experience with Nginx.
• Experience with production-grade, highly available and scalable applications.
• Knowledge of infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.

Key Skills

AWS | EKS | Kubernetes | Docker | Jenkins | CI/CD | Helm | Linux | Redis | Aurora RDS | ActiveMQ | HPA | Karpenter | Nginx | Microservices | Cloud Infrastructure | Production Support | Troubleshooting | Banking/Financial Services

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a hands-on Senior SRE/DevOps Engineer who can independently deploy and troubleshoot microservices on EKS, work with AWS infrastructure components, manage CI/CD pipelines, and resolve complex production issues across the application and infrastructure stack.