Site Reliability Engineer Lead

The SRE Team Lead is responsible for leading a team of Site Reliability Engineers to ensure the stability, resilience, and scalability of services through automation, testing, and engineering practices. This role typically involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to implement best practices in reliability engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership: Manage a team of 6-10 SREs, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to foster a high-performance culture.
• SRE Capability Practice: Standardize and monitor SRE practices to ensure effective implementation across teams.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development squads to ensure alignment on application architecture (e.g., microservices, API gateways) and operational excellence.
• Reliability Systems Architecture: Utilize expertise in cloud distributed computing to enhance system reliability and resilience.
• Software Engineering: Design and implement solutions that improve system performance and reliability.
• Continuous Improvement: Oversee processes related to DevOps practices, ensuring quality assurance throughout the software development lifecycle.

Education:

• Bachelors degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in leading an SRE team
• Good Knowledge in programming languages like Scala or Python or Pyspark or Scala or SQL/PLSQL
• Knowledge of batch/real time Spark processing pipelines.
• Good Knowledge of Spark framework – Core Spark, Spark Data Frames, Spark streaming
• Person should have knowledge in Agile/DevOps Environment
• Proficiency in cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS) and understanding of reliability systems architecture.
• Strong software engineering skills with experience in designing reliability-focused solutions.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration with various teams.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership abilities to motivate and engage team members.
• Technical expertise in automation tools and CI/CD processes.
• Ability to analyze metrics for performance tuning and fault finding.
• Experience with incident management and disaster recovery planning