Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote - India)

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in India.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical security infrastructure. In this role, you will lead initiatives for operational excellence across mission-critical platforms such as intrusion detection, DDoS mitigation, and other security services. You will define service-level objectives, drive automation, and lead incident response, all while collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver secure and high-performing systems. This is an opportunity to influence architecture, observability, and operational practices at scale, working in a fully remote environment with occasional team interactions. The role offers high ownership and the chance to mentor and guide other engineers in a dynamic, fast-paced setting.

Accountabilities:

·         Own reliability outcomes for security platforms, defining SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, alerting, dashboards, and runbooks.

·         Architect and implement high availability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery for IDS/IPS, DDoS mitigation, and supporting services.

·         Design zero/minimal-downtime maintenance and upgrade strategies for OS, firmware, and signature updates.

·         Automate deployments, configuration, and compliance using SaltStack, Python, and Infrastructure as Code practices.

·         Operate and optimize a heterogeneous stack including IPS, DDoS, HAProxy, Nginx, Juniper, and Palo Alto systems.

·         Lead incident response in a 24/7 on-call rotation, act as incident commander, and drive blameless postmortems with durable fixes.

·         Reduce operational toil through self-service tooling, automated health checks, and reliability reviews including game days and chaos testing.

·         Maintain audit-ready operations aligned with compliance standards; create and update SOPs, operational documentation, and architectural diagrams.

·         Mentor and provide technical guidance to contractors and junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

·         5+ years of experience in site reliability, production operations, or platform engineering supporting large-scale, mission-critical systems.

·         Expert-level knowledge of SaltStack (or similar configuration management tools) for automation and deployments.

·         Strong Linux administration skills with deep understanding of TCP/IP, routing, load balancing (L4–L7), and network security concepts.

·         Proficiency in Python for automation, integrations, and operational tooling.

·         Experience with observability tools: Icinga, Grafana, InfluxDB, and rsyslog pipelines.

·         Familiarity with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code concepts.

·         Proven effectiveness in 24/7 operations environments with on-call responsibilities and incident management experience.

·         Excellent technical writing, documentation, and mentoring skills.

·         Preferred: hands-on experience with IDS/IPS and DDoS platforms (TrendMicro TippingPoint, Suricata, NetScout/Arbor), HAProxy/Nginx administration, and network devices (Juniper, Palo Alto).

·         Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; industry certifications such as Security+, CISSP, Linux+ are a plus.