Lead Site Reliability Engineer

CCTECH

  • Pune, Maharashtra
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 3 days ago
  • Apply easily
We are looking for Lead Site Reliability Engineers to take end-to-end ownership of reliability for mission-critical cloud systems while leading and mentoring a team. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on driving scalability, production stability, and excellence in infrastructure, automation, and observability. You will work on core platform systems like Identity, APIs, and cloud services, acting as the technical anchor from CCTech and collaborating closely with product, platform, and infrastructure teams.Key Responsibilities
  • Own reliability, uptime, and production health of critical systems
  • Design systems for scale, failure handling, and unpredictable load
  • Lead architecture decisions balancing scalability, cost, and reliability
  • Drive SRE best practices (SLOs, observability, incident prevention)
  • Lead and mentor engineers; set technical direction and standards
  • Act as the go-to person for complex system design and debugging
  • Build and evolve infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code
  • Drive automation for testing, validation, and recovery systems
  • Collaborate with product and platform teams to ensure systems are:
Production-ready
Reliable and observable
Easy to integrate and adopt
  • Lead critical incident resolution, root cause analysis, and long-term fixes
  • Proactively reduce system fragility and improve platform resilience
RequirementsMust-Have Requirements
  • 8–12 years of experience in SRE / DevOps / Cloud Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with:
AWS production systems (large-scale preferred)
Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or equivalent)
CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
  • Proven experience in:
Designing and operating highly reliable distributed systems
Handling and debugging production incidents at scale
Improving system reliability, performance, and cost
  • Strong programming ability:
Python (preferred) or Go/Node.js
Ability to write production-grade, maintainable code
  • Experience leading engineers and driving technical direction
Strong understanding of:
Distributed systems
Observability and monitoring
Scalability, performance, and cost optimizationGood to Have
  • Experience with identity and access management systems (OAuth2, OIDC, etc.)
  • Exposure to API platforms / API gateways
  • Experience defining and enforcing SLOs and error budgets
  • Exposure to multi-cloud environments
  • Experience with chaos engineering
  • Background in backend engineering before moving to SRE
Benefits
  • High ownership role with real impact on production systems
  • Opportunity to shape SRE practices and platform direction
  • Work on systems used by global engineering organizations
  • Exposure to advanced areas like Identity platforms, Digital Twin, AI/ML systems, and large-scale cloud services

CCTECH