Site Reliability Engineer Lead (DevOps)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer Lead (DevOps): Establishing the enterprise-grade Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice, setting the vision, frameworks, and execution model for reliability, observability, and operational excellence across platforms. Focus on building and leading a small team of SRE engineers, collaborating with DevSecOps, architecture, and infrastructure teams, and ensuring platforms achieve best-in-class uptime and resiliency.

Location: Onsite in Bengaluru

Company

hirify.global is a company in the software domain.

What you will do

• Define and institutionalize the SRE charter, policies, and operating model across business-critical applications.
• Design and implement Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets.
• Create playbooks for incident response, escalation, and blameless postmortems.
• Architect and implement an enterprise observability stack across applications, databases, networks, and cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
• Lead initiatives for capacity planning, chaos engineering, failover testing, and resilience validation.
• Collaborate with application, DevSecOps, security, and infrastructure teams to embed SRE practices into the SDLC.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in hyperscaler services and on-prem workloads.
• Expert-level knowledge of leading tools including configuration, agent deployment, instrumentation, and dashboard building.
• Proficiency in Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, and CI/CD integration.
• Knowledge of microservices, containers (Kubernetes, Docker), message queues, and databases.
• Proven ability to lead incident response, perform RCA, and design proactive reliability measures.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements and embedding compliance into monitoring and observability frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Always prioritizes stability, resilience, and uptime while balancing innovation and delivery speed.
• Data-driven decision making using metrics, dashboards, and SLIs to guide prioritization, escalation, and improvements.
• Embraces iterative enhancements, blameless postmortems, and learning from failures.
• Works seamlessly with application, DevSecOps, infrastructure, and SI/vendor teams to align goals and drive SRE adoption.
• Customer-centric reliability mindset, framing SLOs in terms of customer/business impact, not just system metrics.
• Demonstrates calm, structured approach during incidents and high-severity outages.