Pythian

Site Reliability Engineer

Pythian

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: India

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Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureChefCloudElasticSearchFluxGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaHadoopKafkaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPuppetPythonRedisSaltStackSparkTerraform

About the role

  • Improve reliability, availability, and visibility for customer platforms; plan/execute documented maintenance; produce RCAs and drive remediation/automation
  • Implement and evolve SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, capacity plans, and reliability reviews; harden observability (metrics/logs/traces) and keep alerts actionable
  • Build and extend infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation), configuration management (Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt), and GitOps (Helm, Argo CD/Flux) pipelines
  • Collaborate with support/app/data teams; reduce toil via scripting (Bash/Python) and small tools
  • Lead technical discussions with customers; advise on platform roadmaps and architecture trade‑offs
  • Mentor and cross‑train teammates; uphold documentation quality and internal knowledge sharing
  • Participate in on‑call, escalations, and change reviews; proactively reduce toil via scripting/automation

Requirements

  • Strong Linux administration/troubleshooting
  • Kubernetes fundamentals (workloads, networking, storage, upgrades, security, HA)
  • One major cloud (GCP/AWS/Azure)
  • IaC + config management experience
  • CI/CD/GitOps familiarity
  • Scripting with Bash and/or Python
  • Clear English (written/spoken), estimation, stakeholder communication, documentation quality
  • Depth in one Data Platform: Elasticsearch/OpenSearch (ops, tuning, ILM/snapshots, security/EFK), or Kafka–Hadoop–Spark (production exposure; Confluent/MSK/Strimzi; Dataproc/EMR/CDP familiarity), or Redis (OSS/managed operations; data structures, eviction policies, RDB/AOF persistence)
  • Nice to have: Security/IAM basics, budget/capacity awareness; Prometheus/Grafana experience; diagramming/runbook excellence
Benefits
  • Competitive total rewards package
  • Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favourite charity
  • Flexibly work remotely from your home, there’s no daily travel requirement to an office!
  • Substantial training allowance; participate in professional development days, attend training, become certified, whatever you like!
  • All the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, and an annual budget to personalize your work environment!
  • Annual wellness budget to make yourself a priority (use it on gym memberships, massages, fitness and more)
  • Generous amount of paid vacation and sick days, as well as a day off to volunteer for your favourite charity
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Linux administrationKubernetesTerraformCloudFormationAnsiblePuppetChefSaltBashPython
Soft Skills
communicationdocumentation qualitymentoringstakeholder communicationtechnical discussionsestimation