Site Reliability Engineer

Job Title - Site Reliability Engineer

Duration - 1 year

Location - Dallas, TX

Xoriant reasonably expects the pay rate for this position to be within the following range: $90/hr-100/hr.

Job Description -

About the Role

We are looking for a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with 5 10 years of experience to join our Platform Engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is passionate about reliability, and enjoys solving complex challenges. You will play a key role in building and maintaining scalable, resilient systems while driving operational excellence across our cloud-native platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Reliability Engineering: Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets to measure and improve service reliability.

Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) or other major cloud providers.

Kubernetes Operations: Administer and optimize GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) clusters, ensuring high availability and performance.

Support & Incident Management:

Participate in on-call rotations and handle L2/L3 support for production systems.

Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems.

Collaborate with teams to reduce MTTR and improve incident workflows.

Automation & Tooling: Develop tools and scripts using Python, Go, or Bash to automate operational tasks and improve system efficiency.

Monitoring & Observability: Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Stackdriver.

API Management: Build and maintain internal APIs and integrations that support platform operations and automation.

Infrastructure as Code: Use tools like Terraform, Helm, and GitOps to manage infrastructure in a scalable and repeatable manner.

Collaboration & Culture: Work closely with development, QA, and product teams to embed reliability into the software development lifecycle.

Required Qualifications

5 10 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms, especially Google Cloud Platform.

Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Go, Bash).

Deep understanding of Kubernetes, with hands-on experience in GKE.

Solid knowledge of SQL and relational database systems.

Experience implementing and managing SLIs/SLOs and reliability metrics.

Familiarity with RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills in distributed systems.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

Cloud certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Engineer).

Experience with incident management platforms (e.g., PagerDuty, Opsgenie).

Exposure to DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and agile methodologies.

Experience with security and compliance in cloud environments.

Regards,

Akangsha