Team Lead - Site Reliability

Role Summary :

Reliability & Architecture :

- Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and operational KPIs

- Design and review resilience patterns : circuit breakers, retries, rate limiting, graceful degradation

- Drive chaos engineering, fault-injection, and disaster-recovery readiness

Hands-on Engineering :

- Platform automation

- Observability integrations

- Review microservice architecture with engineering teams to eliminate single points of failure

Cloud & DevOps Leadership :

- Drive Kubernetes best practices (resource tuning, HPA, pod disruption budgets)

- Improve CI/CD pipelines for reliability, speed, and safety

Incident & Operations :

- Establish blameless postmortem culture

- Reduce MTTR through automation and better observability

- Participate in escalation/on-call strategy (not firefighting 247)

People & Process :

- Mentor SRE DevOps and SRE Full-Stack engineers

- Define operational standards, runbooks, and SRE practices

- Work closely with product, security, and engineering leaders

Required Skills & Experience :

- Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, ALB)

- Kubernetes & Docker

- Microservices architectures

- Strong programming background in Java and/or Node.js

- Deep understanding of distributed systems, production debugging, and capacity planning

- Experience in fintech or regulated environments is a strong plus

Nice to Have :

- Security & compliance exposure (PCI-DSS, SOC2, ISO)

- Prior experience building or scaling SRE teams