Lead Site Reliability Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes

Job Overview:We are seeking a highly motivated and strategic-minded Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will lead our reliability strategy, build self-healing architecture, eliminate operational toil through software engineering, and mentor a high-performing team of SRE and Devops engineers.Responsibilities:Architecture & Reliability Ownership:- Design multi-AZ and multi-region AWS architectures for zero-downtime releases.- Establish and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets alongside product managers.Infrastructure as Code (IaC):- Standardize scalable cloud infrastructure using Terraform or AWS CDK.- Ensure state isolation, modularity, and automated deployment pipelines.Observability & Monitoring:- Drive signal-to-noise alerting and build observability pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana, APM, AWS CloudWatch, or OpenTelemetry.Incident Leadership & Postmortems:- Serve as Incident Commander for high-severity issues.- Lead blameless post-mortems and convert system failures into concrete engineering work.Automation & Platform Tooling:- Treat operations as a software problem by writing custom tooling in Bash or Python to eliminate manual operational toil.Developer Experience & CI/CD:- Maintain robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Tekton ArgoCD) to empower product developers with safe self-service deployments.FinOps & Security:- Partner with finance and security to optimize AWS spending (Savings Plans, right-sizing) while ensuring IAM policies, KMS encryption, and VPC configurations meet compliance standards.Mentorship & On-Call Management:- Set sustainable on-call rotation policies to prevent burnout and mentor junior and mid-level SREs.Qualifications:- Experience: 6 - 10 years in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure.- AWS Mastery: Deep hands-on experience across core AWS services (EKS, Lambda, RDS S3, Route 53, Transit Gateway).- Kubernetes Expertise: Experience managing production EKS clusters, including workload scaling, ingress control, service meshes, and GitOps deployments (ArgoCD/Flux).- Software Development: Strong coding skills in Bash or Python to build CLI tools, custom controllers, and API integrations.- IaC Proficiency: Proven production usage of Terraform or AWS CDK.- Observability: Track record of building metrics, logs, and trace pipelines from the ground up using modern observability stacks.- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.If you are passionate about AWS cloud technologies, databases, and automation, and want to be part of a dynamic team, apply now!Experience Range : 6 - 10 yearsEducational Qualifications : B. Tech/B. E, and M. TechSkills Required : AWS, EKS, Argocd, Flux cd, Bash, Python, Terraforms, Kubernetes (ref:hirist.tech)