Sr. Technical Lead
Riverbed Technology, Inc.8 months ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead critical production incident response, investigations, root-cause analysis, and resolution.
- Architect and implement infrastructure improvements, automation frameworks, and observability systems.
- Own initiatives that improve production resilience, reduce MTTR, and optimize infrastructure performance.
- Mentor SRE team members, conduct code and design reviews, and develop engineering capabilities.
- Lead blameless postmortems and improve incident response playbooks.
- Collaborate with DevOps and engineering leadership on architecture and reliability standards.
- Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs and implement monitoring strategies.
- Participate in and help coordinate the global on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of hands-on AWS experience, including expert knowledge of EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, load balancing, CloudFormation, and multi-account strategies.
- Strong leadership and mentorship experience leading technical initiatives and developing engineering talent.
- Expertise in Linux systems administration and performance tuning.
- Advanced production experience with Terraform and Ansible at scale.
- Deep Kubernetes and ECS expertise, including cluster management, scaling, and troubleshooting.
- Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar tools.
- Advanced observability experience with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, or equivalent platforms.
- Expert networking skills covering DNS, load balancing, TLS/SSL, VPNs, service mesh architectures, and complex connectivity troubleshooting.
- Proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tool building.
- Excellent communication and technical documentation skills.
- Experience with DORA metrics, error budgets, toil reduction, and SRE practices.
- Preferred: security and compliance experience with SOC2, ISO, or FedRAMP; open-source SRE/DevOps contributions; multi-region high-availability architectures; FinOps and cloud cost optimization; or GitOps practices with ArgoCD or Flux.
Benefits
- Flexible workplace policies, employee resource groups, learning and development resources, career progression pathways, and community engagement initiatives.
- Global employee wellness programs supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
- Benefits and perks vary by country.
- The position is tagged as hybrid and is located in Bangalore.
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability