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Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Palo Alto Networks
NewPosted yesterday

LOCATION

India · Onsite

EXPERIENCE

12+ Years

TYPE

FullTime

SKILLS REQUIRED

Incident ResponseRoot Cause AnalysisObservabilityService Level ObjectivesKubernetesTerraformAWS

Job description

Overview

Lead high-severity incident and problem management across AWS and GCP platforms, combining hands-on troubleshooting with process ownership to drive rapid recovery, root cause elimination and long-term reliability improvements.

What you'll do

  • Implement and lead post-mortem processes within SLAs, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions.
  • Rapidly diagnose and resolve failures across Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS using advanced troubleshooting frameworks.
  • Implement automation and enhanced monitoring to proactively detect issues and reduce incident frequency.
  • Collaborate with AWS and GCP TAMs and other vendors to request new features or updates.
  • Coach and elevate SRE and DevOps team members, promoting best practices in reliability.
  • Establish and maintain a problem backlog, ensuring timely resolution and continuous process improvement.
  • Envision and drive how a modern SRE team should operate by leveraging AI/ML technologies.
  • Own L3 OnCall responsibilities.

What you'll need

  • 12+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure, with at least 5 years leading engineering teams.
  • Strong hands-on expertise across AWS and GCP, including cloud architecture, infrastructure, networking, security, and production operations.
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), Docker, Terraform, and infrastructure automation.
  • Strong experience with distributed systems, microservices, and databases/streaming platforms such as RDS, Cassandra, Kafka, and MemSQL/SingleStore.
  • Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
  • Strong expertise in observability across metrics, logs, and distributed tracing using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
  • Proven ability to lead high-severity incidents, drive root-cause analysis, eliminate recurring issues, and improve service reliability.
  • Strong understanding of SLI, SLO, SLA, capacity planning, scalability, resilience, and disaster recovery.
  • Experience driving operational excellence through automation, toil reduction, and continuous improvement.
  • Ability to collaborate across Engineering, Product, and Security teams, influence technical decisions, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.
  • Strong understanding of BigQuery, including query optimization, workload management, performance tuning, and cost optimization.
  • Experience with GCP FinOps, including cloud cost monitoring, cost attribution, budgeting, anomaly detection, resource rightsizing, and cloud spend optimization.

Nice to have

  • Demonstrated interest in applying AI/ML to incident management, predictive analytics, and next-generation SRE practices.

Details

  • Location: Bangalore, India (Bagmane Tech Park).
  • Work mode: Most teams work from the office full time, with flexibility when needed.
  • Immigration sponsorship: Not available for this position.

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Manager, Site Reliability Engineering