Job Description
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for the availability, performance, serviceability, and recoverability of production systems supporting flight operations, maintenance, and compliance workflows.
This role owns production reliability outcomes as systems scale, migrate, and evolve within regulated aviation environments.
Job Title : Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Experience Required: 5+ Years
Location : Pune/ Ahmedabad
Educational Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field Roles and Responsibilities
Reliability Ownership and Service Health
- Own availability, latency, throughput, and durability for production systems
- Define and maintain service level indicators and service level objectives
- Manage error budgets to guide engineering and operational decisions
- Ensure reliability targets are met consistently
Production Architecture and Resilience
- Design and operate highly available multi availability zone and multi region architectures
- Ensure controlled and observable failure behavior
- Define redundancy, graceful degradation, and automated recovery strategies
- Validate failover and recovery through testing
Incident Response and Operational Maturity
- Lead response to production incidents
- Own root cause analysis focused on systemic contributors
- Drive remediation actions to completion
- Reduce incident frequency, severity, and blast radius over time
Observability and Operational Insight
- Design centralized logging, metrics, alerting, and dashboards
- Define observability standards tied to customer impact
- Ensure alerts are actionable and low noise
- Use operational data for capacity planning and scaling decisions
Automation and Toil Reduction
- Identify and eliminate manual or repetitive operational tasks
- Build automation to reduce operational risk
- Standardize operational workflows
- Treat simplicity as a reliability requirement
Data and Database Reliability
- Own production database reliability
- Design replication, backup, restore, and failover strategies
- Validate recovery procedures regularly
- Lead migrations to managed cloud databases such as AWS RDS or Aurora
Technical Qualifications:
Cloud and Infrastructure
- Hands on experience operating production systems on AWS or Azure
- Strong understanding of networking, IAM, load balancing, and managed services
- Ability to balance cost, reliability, and operational complexity
Distributed Systems
- Experience operating distributed systems in production
- Strong understanding of partial failure and recovery patterns
- Ability to diagnose cross stack production issues
Observability and Operations
- Experience with centralized logging, metrics, and alerting
- Ability to design alerts based on service impact
- Experience driving improvement from operational data
Programming and Automation
- Strong scripting skills using Python, Node.js, or shell
- Ability to write production grade operational tooling
- Comfort modifying application code to improve reliability
Databases
- Experience operating relational databases in production
- Experience with replication, backup, restore, and failover
- Experience migrating legacy databases to managed services preferred
Preferred Experience
- Experience in regulated or safety critical industries such as aviation
- Familiarity with compliance, auditability, and traceability requirements
- Experience supporting systems with direct operational impact
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & Consulting
Functional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QA
Role Category: DevOps
Role: Site Reliability Engineer
Employement Type: Full time
Contact Details:
Company: Zymr Systems
Location(s): Pune
Keyskills:
database
IAM
Site Reliability Engineering
Load Balancing
Metrics
Azure
Powershell
Sre
AWS
Scripting
Python