Senior Site Reliability Engineer

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients Salary range: Rs 2500000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 25 - 45 LPA) Min Experience: 7+ years Location: Chennai JobType: full-time The Senior SRE is responsible for deployment, updates, and operational support for environments hosting our leading client’s cloud-based solutions. This role ensures operational excellence, a seamless client experience, and continuous improvement across infrastructure and delivery processes. The ideal candidate combines strong technical capabilities with the ability to lead delivery through influence and hands-on engineering expertise. Requirements What You’ll Do? Operational Excellence - Act as a senior technical authority for APAC Site Reliability Engineering activities. - Drive best practices in reliability, operations, and engineering standards. - Promote technical excellence, collaboration, and accountability across stakeholders. Service Reliability & Performance - Make infrastructure complexity transparent to both internal teams and customers, ensuring a consistently excellent client experience. - Implement, track, and evolve service performance measures such as SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs. - Anticipate risks related to service availability, capacity, performance regressions, and security vulnerabilities. - Drive continuous improvement, including leading and facilitating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities. Delivery & Deployment Management - Ensure timely execution of deployments, upgrades, maintenance activities, and change requests. - Anticipate workload, plan deliverables, and ensure qualification/validation of upcoming tasks. - Collaborate closely with engineering to improve platform components, automation, and operational processes. Cost, Automation & Efficiency - Control and optimise infrastructure and operational expenditure across cloud and on-prem environments. - Drive automation initiatives and enhance monitoring to improve reliability and reduce manual effort. - Improve deployment workflows and operational tooling to support scalability and efficiency. Cross-Functional Collaboration - Communicate proactively with internal stakeholders including Pre-Sales, Project Management, CSM, and TAM teams. - Engage with customers as needed to ensure clarity, trust, and high-quality service. Performance Measures - Timely delivery of planned activities - SLA & SLO compliance - Client satisfaction & feedback - Operational & cloud cost optimisation - Continuous improvement of operational practices What We Need for You to Be Successful? - Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure - Containerisation & Orchestration: Kubernetes - Infrastructure as Code: Terraform - Configuration Management: Ansible - Packaging & Deployment: Helm - Databases: MariaDB, MongoDB - Monitoring, observability, networking, and cloud security Preferred Experience & Attributes - Experience in complex cloud operations, SRE, or DevOps environments - Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset - Excellent communication skills - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment Must-have skills SRE, Helm Charts, AWS Good-to-have skills Python, Kubernetes