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Principal SRE, Digital Business
10-12 years
Mumbai
1 vacancy
Principal SRE, Digital Business
Sony Pictures Networks Distribution India Pvt.ltd
posted 4d ago
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As a Principal SRE Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining reliable and scalable infrastructure to support our OTT platform. You bring a developers mindset, coupled with extensive SRE experience, and a passion for reliability and performance. Youll ensure smooth system operations, take ownership of application and infrastructure reliability, and have a strong support mindset to tackle critical incidents, even during off-hours.
Were seeking a candidate with 8+ years of experience, a deep understanding of observability, and the ability to lead reliability initiatives across systems and teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Full System Ownership: Take complete responsibility for the availability, reliability, and performance of systems, including both application and infrastructure layers.
- Development & SRE Mindset: Leverage your experience as a developer and SRE to build tools, automation, and systems to improve system reliability and operational efficiency.
- Incident Management: Respond to and resolve critical system issues promptly, including being available for on-call support and handling emergencies during non-business hours, including late nights.
- Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure solutions using containers (Docker/Kubernetes), networks, and CDNs to ensure scalability and performance.
- Observability: Drive best practices in observability, including metrics, logging, and tracing, to enhance system monitoring and proactive issue resolution. Implement and maintain observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or DataDog.
- Reliability and Performance: Proactively identify areas for improvement in system reliability, performance, and scalability, and define strategies and best practices to address them.
- Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including development, QA, and support, to align goals and improve operational excellence. Communicate effectively across teams and stakeholders.
- CI/CD and Automation: Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment reliability and efficiency. Automate repetitive tasks and processes wherever possible.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with the latest technologies and best practices in DevOps, SRE, and cloud computing. Apply them to improve existing systems and processes.
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in software development, DevOps, and SRE roles.
- Development Experience: Strong experience as a software developer with expertise in building scalable, distributed systems.
- SRE/DevOps Experience: Hands-on experience managing production systems, ensuring uptime, and improving system reliability.
- Technical Proficiency:
- Strong experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
- In-depth understanding of networking concepts and CDNs (e.g., Akamai, Cloudfront).
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Observability Expertise: Proven experience in implementing and maintaining robust observability solutions, including monitoring, alerting, metrics, and tracing.
- Incident Handling: Proven ability to handle critical incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement permanent fixes.
- Automation: Strong scripting/programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Reliability Focus: Demonstrated passion for system reliability, scalability, and performance optimization.
- Soft Skills: Excellent communication, collaboration, and leadership skills. Ability to explain technical details to non-technical stakeholders.
- On-Call Readiness: Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and support critical systems during off-hours.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in OTT or video streaming platforms.
- Understanding of video delivery workflows, encoding, and adaptive bitrate streaming technologies.
- Experience working with hybrid infrastructure or multicloud cloud environment (on-premise and multi cloud).
- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Professional Cloud Architect, etc.).
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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