Site Reliability Engineer

Experience: 2.00 + years

Salary: INR 2500000-3000000 / year (based on experience)

Expected Notice Period: 30 Days

Shift: (GMT+05:30) Asia/Kolkata (IST)

Opportunity Type: Remote

Placement Type: Full Time Permanent position(Payroll and Compliance to be managed by: Lyzr)

(*Note: This is a requirement for one of Uplers client - Lyzr)

What do you need for this opportunity?

Must have skills required:

FinOps, AWS, Python, PowerShell, Bash, DevOps, SRE, System Engineering

Lyzr is Looking for:

At Lyzr AI, this role sits at the heart of platform reliability and scale. You will own the availability, security, and performance of mission-critical AI systems powering our customers, ensuring they run flawlessly at all times. Acting as the final escalation point, you’ll blend deep technical expertise with SRE principles to build resilient, automated, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure

Roles & Responsibilities

System Ownership & Reliability

• End-to-End Ownership: Own the health and lifecycle of production systems, ensuring high availability (HA) and meeting strict Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
• Deep-Dive Debugging: Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across infrastructure, application code, and networking layers. You will be the escalation point for hard-to-solve production incidents.
• Incident Management: Lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes for outages, driving permanent fixes and architectural changes to prevent recurrence.
  
  
  

Operational Excellence & Security

• Disaster Recovery (DR): Design and manage DR strategies; conduct periodic failover drills to ensure business continuity.
• Security & Compliance: Oversee OS patching, vulnerability scanning, and adherence to industry compliance standards (SOC2/HIPAA/ISO). Maintain strict IAM policies and security groups.
• Observability: Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog) to ensure early detection of anomalies.
• Maintenance: Define and maintain backup/restore processes and routine maintenance windows with minimal downtime.
  
  
  

SRE & Automation

• Eliminate Toil: Apply SRE principles to automate repetitive operational tasks, reducing manual intervention.
• IaC & Tooling: Develop automation tools and manage infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation, along with scripting in Python, Go, or Bash.
• Self-Healing Systems: Implement auto-remediation workflows where systems can detect and resolve common issues (e.g., restarting failed services, rotating bad nodes) without human intervention.
• Performance Tuning: optimize application runtime parameters, database queries, and system kernel settings for maximum throughput.
  
  
  

Cloud & Cost Optimization (FinOps)

• AWS Management: Architect and manage extensive AWS services—EC2, EKS/ECS, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, and Route53.
• Cost Efficiency: Actively monitor cloud spend and drive Cost Optimization initiatives.
• This includes rightsizing instances, managing Reserved/Spot instances, and identifying idle resources to reduce waste.
• Capacity Planning: Collaborate with engineering teams to forecast infrastructure needs, ensuring we scale to meet demand without over-provisioning.
  
  
  

Technical Qualifications

Must-Have Skills

• Experience: 2-5 years in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles with a strong focus on AWS.
• Cloud Proficiency: Expert-level knowledge of AWS core services and architecture standards.
• Scripting: Strong proficiency in Python or Shell/Bash for automation.
• Cost Tools: Experience with AWS Cost Explorer, Trusted Advisor, or 3rd party tools (e.g., CloudHealth) to drive financial efficiency.
• Monitoring: Hands-on experience with tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, or Splunk.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Hybrid Cloud environments (AWS + On-Prem/Data Center).
• Knowledge of container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
• Understanding of database administration and replication (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or DynamoDB).
  
  
  

Interview Process -

• R1 : Technical Round
• R2 : Culture + Technical Round
  
  
  

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• Step 2: Complete the Screening Form & Upload updated Resume
• Step 3: Increase your chances to get shortlisted & meet the client for the Interview!
  
  
  

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