Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Google Cloud Platform

Role: Senior SRE. Experience: 7 years. Location: Bangalore/ Hyderabad. Work Type: Contract - 1 year. CTC: 25-30% hike on last drawn. Interview: Virtual. Mandate Skills: - GCP (Google Cloud Platform) Must have (strong hands-on). - GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine). - Terraform (Infrastructure as Code). - GitHub & GitHub Actions (CI/CD). - SRE concepts (SLI, SLO, Monitoring, Incident Management, RCA). - Cloud Networking & Security. - Monitoring & Observability. - REST APIs & Backend Automation. Description: Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited. About The Client: Client is one of the worlds leading professional services firms and the fastest growing Big Four accounting firm. Qualifications: - 7+ years experience. - Cloud Platform GCP (Mandatory). - Strong expertise in designing and operating cloud-native architectures on GCP & AWS. - Hands-on experience with core GCP services including Compute Engine, Networking, Access Management, Monitoring, Security & familiarity with Serverless architecture. - Experience building secure, scalable, multi-region deployments. - Knowledge of networking, security, and access control best practices. - Familiarity with GCP observability tools. - Familiarity with managing the Backup & recovery of cloud resources to maintain the desired RTO & RPO. - Kubernetes & Container Orchestration (Core Skill). - Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture and control plane components. - Strong expertise in managing container workloads at scale. - Experience with workload scheduling, autoscaling, and resource optimization. - Strong experience in creating custom network policies & managing the security posture at Cluster, Infrastructure & Application layers. - Ability to troubleshoot cluster-level and application-level issues. - Familiarity with network policies, RBAC, storage classes, and service mesh concepts. - GKE. - Hands-on experience with managed Kubernetes services (GKE). - Expertise in cluster provisioning, upgrades, and node pool management. - Experience with GKE security, workload identity, and cluster hardening. - Ability to manage high availability and production-grade Kubernetes clusters. - Infrastructure as Code Terraform. - Strong experience in provisioning and managing infrastructure using Terraform. - Ability to design and maintain reusable & secure Terraform self-service templates. - Experience in state management, remote backends, and environment segregation. - Integration of Terraform with CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments. - Knowledge of infrastructure versioning and lifecycle management. - Ability to integrate security scanning tools with IaC. - Node.js & TypeScript. - Proficiency in developing backend services and APIs using Node.js. - Strong experience with TypeScript for scalable and maintainable codebases. - Ability to build automation tools, services, and resource management utilities. - Understanding of asynchronous programming, event-driven architecture, and REST APIs. - Exposure to performance optimization and debugging of backend services. - CI/CD & Version Control GitHub Ecosystem. - Strong expertise in Git-based version control using GitHub. - Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools. - Knowledge of branching strategies, code reviews, and release workflows. - Ability to automate build, test, and deployment processes for cloud-native applications. - Helm. - Hands-on experience with Helm for packaging and deploying Kubernetes applications. - Ability to create and maintain custom Helm charts. - Experience in managing application lifecycle, versioning, and environment-specific configurations. - Understanding of templating and release management using Helm. - SRE Practices. - Strong understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. - Experience in designing highly reliable and resilient systems. - Expertise in monitoring, logging, and alerting strategies for distributed systems. - Ability to drive capacity planning, resource allocation, and cost optimization. - Hands-on experience in incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortems. - Experience in improving system performance, availability, and scalability. - Multi-Cloud Exposure AWS/Azure (Good to Have). - Basic exposure to AWS services. - Understanding of multi-cloud environments. - Understanding of implementing the security posture on the cloud.