SRE/DevOps Engineer

Role: SRE/DevOps Engineer

Experience: 9+ years

Work mode: Hybrid

Location: Chennai, Mumbai, Gurugram

Notice period: Immediate /15 days

Role Overview

Were looking for an experienced SRE to harden and operate our Azure workloads, automate infrastructure with Terraform, streamline deployments via ArgoCD or Nomad, and ensure our environments meet rigorous security and compliance standards. You will work hands-on across infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability, with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost-effective operations.

Experience:
• 6+ years of SRE/Devops experience required

Key Outcomes

IaC baselined: Terraform modules standardized for core Azure resources (AKS/compute, networking, storage, Key Vault, databases).

Deployment flow repeatable: ArgoCD applications and GitHub workflows defined with clear promotion paths and automated guardrails.

Reliability metrics live: SLIs/SLOs for critical services published; dashboards and alerts tuned to actionable thresholds.

Security posture improved: Secrets management via Key Vault, role-based access in Azure AD/RBAC, and hardened network controls.

Operational runbooks: Documented procedures for incident response, backup/restore, and DR scenarios for MySQL and SQL Server.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities

Design & operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Git-based workflows.

Manage GitOps deployments with ArgoCD integrating with GitHub for change management.

Provision & maintain databases: Azure MySQL and Azure SQL Server.

Observability & reliability: Define SLIs/SLOs, implement telemetry, and run capacity/performance tunings.

Security & compliance: Enforce best practices for identity, access, network segmentation, secrets, and configuration hardening.

Automation & tooling: Improve pipelines and repeatable runbooks to reduce toil.

Documentation: Maintain high-quality runbooks and diagrams.

Required Qualifications

Experience in SRE/Platform/DevOps roles operating production systems.

Azure expertise: AKS, ACR, VNets/NSGs, Private Link, Load Balancers, Managed Identities, Key Vault, Azure Monitor.

Terraform (IaC): Authoring reusable modules, remote state, workspaces.

GitHub: Branching strategies, PR reviews, GitHub Actions.

ArgoCD (GitOps): App-of-Apps patterns, sync waves, Helm/Kustomize integration.

Databases: Provisioning/operating MySQL and SQL Server in Azure.

Security-first mindset: Practical experience with Azure AD/RBAC, network security, secrets management.

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (K8s) for container orchestration, deployment, scaling, and monitoring of applications.

Experience working with Docker containers and container lifecycle management.

Familiarity with Chainguard Docker Images and secure container image practices to support application security and compliance.

Nice-to-Have

Container security and supply-chain hygiene.

Knowledge of Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd).

Exposure to compliance frameworks (PCI DSS).

Cost optimization and FinOps practices in Azure.