# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

> Weekday AI · Chennai, India · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-24

**Salary:** INR 2,500,000–4,500,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Weekday's Client via platform

## Description

**This role is for one of Weekday’s clients  
Salary range: Rs 2500000 - Rs 4500000 (ie INR 25 - 45 LPA)**

  
Min Experience: 7+ years  
Location: Chennai  
JobType: full-time

The Senior SRE is responsible for deployment, updates, and operational support for environments hosting our leading client’s cloud-based solutions. This role ensures operational excellence, a seamless client experience, and continuous improvement across infrastructure and delivery processes. The ideal candidate combines strong technical capabilities with the ability to lead delivery through influence and hands-on engineering expertise.

## Requirements

**What You’ll Do?**  
 

**Operational Excellence**

-   Act as a senior technical authority for APAC Site Reliability Engineering activities.  
     
-   Drive best practices in reliability, operations, and engineering standards.  
     
-   Promote technical excellence, collaboration, and accountability across stakeholders.  
     

**Service Reliability & Performance**

-   Make infrastructure complexity transparent to both internal teams and customers, ensuring a consistently excellent client experience.  
     
-   Implement, track, and evolve service performance measures such as SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.  
     
-   Anticipate risks related to service availability, capacity, performance regressions, and security vulnerabilities.  
     
-   Drive continuous improvement, including leading and facilitating Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities.  
     

**Delivery & Deployment Management**

-   Ensure timely execution of deployments, upgrades, maintenance activities, and change requests.  
     
-   Anticipate workload, plan deliverables, and ensure qualification/validation of upcoming tasks.  
     
-   Collaborate closely with engineering to improve platform components, automation, and operational processes.  
     

**Cost, Automation & Efficiency**

-   Control and optimise infrastructure and operational expenditure across cloud and on-prem environments.  
     
-   Drive automation initiatives and enhance monitoring to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.  
     
-   Improve deployment workflows and operational tooling to support scalability and efficiency.  
     

**Cross-Functional Collaboration**

-   Communicate proactively with internal stakeholders including Pre-Sales, Project Management, CSM, and TAM teams.  
     
-   Engage with customers as needed to ensure clarity, trust, and high-quality service.  
     

**Performance Measures**

-   Timely delivery of planned activities  
     
-   SLA & SLO compliance  
     
-   Client satisfaction & feedback  
     
-   Operational & cloud cost optimisation  
     
-   Continuous improvement of operational practices  
     

**What We Need for You to Be Successful?**

-   Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure  
     
-   Containerisation & Orchestration: Kubernetes  
     
-   Infrastructure as Code: Terraform  
     
-   Configuration Management: Ansible  
     
-   Packaging & Deployment: Helm  
     
-   Databases: MariaDB, MongoDB  
     
-   Monitoring, observability, networking, and cloud security  
     

**Preferred Experience & Attributes**

-   Experience in complex cloud operations, SRE, or DevOps environments  
     
-   Strong problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset  
     
-   Excellent communication skills  
     
-   Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

### Must-have skills

SRE, Helm Charts, AWS

### Good-to-have skills

Python, Kubernetes

## Apply

[Apply at Weekday AI](https://apply.workable.com/weekday-1/j/10F854005F/apply)

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