ROLE PURPOSE Improve the reliability, scalability, security and operational excellence of cloud-hosted services on Google Cloud Platform. This is a hands-on engineering role spanning SRE practices, production Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, observability, CI/CD, incident response and continuous service improvement.
About the role
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will work with Cloud Platform, Software Engineering, Product, Security and Service teams to design and operate resilient services. The role will use software engineering and automation to reduce operational toil, improve service health and turn incident learning into measurable reliability improvements.
Key responsibilities
- Lead reliability, availability, scalability and performance improvements across GCP-hosted applications, platforms and shared services.
- Define and operate service level indicators, service level objectives and error-budget practices that connect technical health to customer impact.
- Design actionable observability using Dynatrace, including instrumentation, dashboards, distributed tracing, service health views and SLO-based alerting.
- Build modular, reusable and maintainable Terraform code for secure cloud infrastructure, platform services and environment provisioning.
- Administer production Kubernetes environments, covering cluster lifecycle, workload deployment, capacity, upgrades, networking and platform troubleshooting.
- Automate operational activities and repetitive support work using Python, Groovy, Bash or PowerShell to reduce toil and improve consistency.
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or equivalent tooling, with automated quality and deployment controls.
- Lead incident response, complex troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and post-incident reviews; ensure corrective actions are tracked to completion.
- Embed security, resilience, monitoring and supportability into platform and application designs from the outset.
- Coach engineers, contribute reusable standards and patterns, and promote SRE and operational excellence across engineering communities.
Core outcomes
- Reliable and measurable production services with clear ownership, SLOs and actionable alerts.
- Less manual effort through automation, self-service and repeatable engineering patterns.
- Faster restoration, stronger incident learning and sustained reduction in repeat failures.
Essential skills and experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (GCP)
Capability
Required experience
Strong hands-on GCP engineering and operations experience across production services. Relevant GCP certification is preferred.
Site Reliability Engineering
Demonstrable SRE experience improving availability, resilience, scalability, supportability and operational performance.
Dynatrace & observability
Instrumentation, dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, service health modelling and SLO-based alerting using Dynatrace.
Terraform
Strong Infrastructure as Code capability, including modular design, reusable components, state management, code review and maintainability.
Production Kubernetes administration and Docker knowledge, including deployments, upgrades, networking, capacity and troubleshooting.
Hands-on Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or comparable tooling for build, test, infrastructure and deployment automation.
Scripting & coding
Practical automation using Python, Groovy, Bash or PowerShell, with sound software engineering and source-control practices.
Major incident response, structured troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, problem management and post-incident improvement.
Working knowledge of IAM, least privilege, secrets, secure configuration, policy controls and operational risk management.
Networking & APIs
Strong understanding of Linux/Unix, DNS, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing, firewalls, VPC connectivity, HTTP and API troubleshooting.
Automation-first mindset and experience replacing repetitive operational activity with reliable engineering solutions.
Stakeholder collaboration
Ability to explain service risk and technical options clearly and work effectively across engineering, product, security and operations teams.
Technical environment
- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform, cloud-native services and managed platform capabilities.
- Observability: Dynatrace, telemetry, dashboards, SLI/SLO measures, logs, metrics and distributed traces.
- Platform: Kubernetes, Docker, Linux/Unix, cloud networking and APIs.
- Automation: Terraform, Python, Groovy, Bash and PowerShell.
- Delivery: Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Git and automated release controls.
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