Senior SRE Engineer

5 - 7 Years
1 Opening
Trivandrum

Job Summary

UST is looking for a talented Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help design, build, and operate modern cloud environments as we re-platform our traditional on-premise application stack to a scalable, cloud-native architecture.

The SRE will play a critical role in defining standards, automation, and processes that enable engineering teams to deliver features rapidly, reliably, and securely. This role will act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for application development teams, influencing application design and promoting best practices for continuous delivery, reliability, and scalability in the cloud.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as a contributing member of the DevOps/SRE team, driving development, deployment, and support of CI/CD pipelines to enable a microservices and SOA-based cloud architecture.

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native platforms across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

• Provision and manage Kubernetes / OpenShift clusters, including namespaces, pipelines, deployments, and lifecycle management of containerized applications.

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve source code management, build, release, and deployment systems.

• Create and maintain automated pipelines, scripts, and processes to support cloud infrastructure and application deployments.

• Collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to operationalize DevOps and SRE practices.

• Influence application and platform design decisions for SOA and microservices-based systems on cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.

• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentoring to development teams on continuous delivery and reliability best practices.

• Champion Agile, DevOps, and continuous improvement culture across teams.

• Participate in incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for infrastructure and application issues.

• Ensure seamless transition from development to production operationalization.

• Support monitoring, logging, observability, and reliability initiatives to meet availability and performance goals.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / SRE roles, including leadership responsibilities.

• Strong experience with AWS or Azure (Azure migration experience is a plus).

• Hands-on expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift, supporting microservices-based applications.

• Extensive experience with DevOps tools and technologies, including:

  • Jenkins / CircleCI

  • Docker & Kubernetes

  • Git

  • Maven, Ant

  • JIRA

• Strong scripting skills in one or more of the following:

  • Shell, Python, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript

• Solid understanding of networking concepts (DNS, NAT, routing, firewalls).

• Proven troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, capable of working with teams of varying technical expertise.

• Experience supporting Agile and product development teams.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills

• Exposure to Helm, Checkmarx, New Relic.

• Experience with logging and monitoring tools, such as:

  • Splunk, Grafana, AppDynamics, Logstash

  • CloudTrail, Datadog, Dynatrace

  • CA APM (Wily Introscope), Nagios

• Background in systems architecture.

• Experience with testing frameworks and practices.

• Knowledge of additional cloud platforms beyond AWS/Azure.

• Familiarity with Microservices and SOA architectures.

• Experience with database technologies such as Cassandra, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, etc.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on large-scale cloud transformation initiatives

• Collaborative, innovation-driven culture

• Exposure to modern DevOps, SRE, and cloud-native technologies

• Career growth and leadership opportunities within UST

If you’d like, I can also:

• Shorten this for LinkedIn/Job Portal posting

• Make a more SRE-focused vs DevOps-focused version

• Align it to AWS SRE, Azure SRE, or Platform Engineering language