Lead Automation Engineer

Overview

Lead Automation Engineer (individual contributor) building production-safe automation and the observability that proves it works as designed.

What you'll do

• Build end-to-end automation that executes validated remediation with safe rollback.
• Turn runbooks/remediation procedures into codified, executable automation steps.
• Implement metrics, logs, traces, and events so automation behavior is explainable in production.
• Apply SRE patterns (error budgets, blameless postmortems, graduation-criteria-aware rollout).
• Partner with SRE and Operations to validate graduation criteria and close the loop on outcomes.
• Maintain and extend the existing automation portfolio (including orchestration tooling and RPA where appropriate).

What you'll need

• 10+ years of hands-on automation engineering experience in enterprise IT operations.
• Strong observability skills including SLI/SLO design and instrumentation with metrics, structured logs, and distributed traces.
• Practical experience with at least one observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry, Splunk, Datadog, Dynatrace, or equivalent).
• Experience converting documented fixes/remediation procedures into reliable, repeatable automation.
• Practical scripting/programming ability (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar) for production-grade automation and instrumentation.
• Comfort working with safe-execution guardrails (rollback, exception handling, staged/canary rollout).
• Working knowledge of SRE concepts and ability to encode them into automation safely.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a closely related field.

Details

• Work location: Hyderabad.
• Work schedule may require flexible/non-standard hours, including some weekends and holidays.
• Onsite role.