Lead Site Reliability Engineer

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We\’re partnering with a high-growth technology company that is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team Lead / Technical Lead to join their world-class engineering function.This is not your average technical leadership role — you\’ll be driving strategic reliability initiatives, shaping cloud infrastructure best practices, and leading a team of talented SREs committed to automation, scalability, and operational excellence.

What You\’ll Be Doing Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing DevOps/SRE team.Define and execute the SRE strategy to support scalability, performance, and resilience across critical systems.Own and evolve the AWS infrastructure – think EC2, RDS, ECS, Fargate, IAM, VPC and beyond.Champion Infrastructure as Code and drive automation using Ansible (with exposure to Terraform or CloudFormation a plus).Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver seamless, high-availability services.Lead incident management processes, improve observability, and enforce SLAs/SLOs using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Datadog.Act as a technical mentor and thought leader within both your team and the broader engineering organisation.

What We\’re Looking For: Proven leadership experience within SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure teams.Hands-on mastery of AWS services and cloud-native design patterns (microservices, containers, serverless).Proficient in Ansible (Terraform knowledge is a strong advantage).Strategic mindset with a strong grasp of SRE principles.Track record of mentoring engineers, promoting best practices, and enabling high performance.Solid understanding of monitoring, logging, and incident response.

Ready to step into a high-impact leadership role? Apply now or send your CV to chinmaye.ramnath@gmail.com.

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