SRE Engineer

We are seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineering to take end-to-end ownership of our retail eCommerce platform's operational excellence. You will drive SRE culture across engineering teams, champion observability, and work with a cross-functional onsite/offshore team to deliver exceptional uptime, performance, and release velocity. This role blends deep technical expertise — you'll be equally comfortable reviewing Kubernetes manifests, tuning Akamai rules, and presenting SLO dashboards to senior leadership

Must have skills and Technologies

Core Technical Skills

🔧 SRE Practices & Leadership

Should have Development experience in an E-Commerce system built on Java/Microservices

SLI / SLO / Error Budget management

Akamai CDN (edge config, WAF, TLS, traffic Mgmt)

Incident Management & Blameless Post-Mortems

AWS Core Services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)

Performance tuning & capacity planning

Kubernetes / Amazon EKS (production operations)

AWS IAM, VPC, Security Groups, KMS

Jenkins CI/CD (pipeline design & optimization)

Container security & image scanning

Splunk APM & Splunk Cloud (dashboards, alerts)

Monitoring stack design (metrics, logs, traces)

Redis & Memcached (distributed caching strategy)

Distributed systems troubleshooting at scale

CloudFormation / Auto Scaling Groups

Cross-team technical leadership & mentoring

Java and Microservices architecture & service mesh

Preferred / Nice to have skills

Python, Bash, JavaScript, Java, Terraform, AWS CDK

Open Telemetry, Chaos Engineering, GitOps / ArgoCD, PCI-DSS, SOC 2

NGINX / Apache, Service Mesh (Istio), Dynatrace / Datadog, JIRA / Confluence

Experience supporting or developing eCommerce web applications (JavaScript & Java)

Familiarity with accessibility and compliance standards in retail platforms

Prior experience in high-GMV retail or marketplace environments

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

8+ years of SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering experience in production environments

Proven track record managing large-scale AWS cloud-native microservices architecture

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or Solutions Architect (preferred)

CKA / CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Administrator / Developer) is a strong plus

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