Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Location:

Remote (India- Offshore) Job type:

Full time or Contract Shift time:

3PM to 12AM IST

Total Experience: 6 + years

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for the availability, performance, serviceability, and recoverability of production systems supporting flight operations, maintenance, and compliance workflows. This role owns production reliability outcomes as systems scale, migrate, and evolve within regulated aviation environments.

What You Will Own SQL to RDS migration experience Experience with DMS or similar migration tools Reliability Ownership and Service Health Own availability, latency, throughput, and durability for production systems Define and maintain service level indicators and service level objectives Manage error budgets to guide engineering and operational decisions Ensure reliability targets are met consistently Production Architecture and Resilience Design and operate highly available multi availability zone and multi region architectures Ensure controlled and observable failure behavior Define redundancy, graceful degradation, and automated recovery strategies Validate failover and recovery through testing Incident Response and Operational Maturity Lead response to production incidents Own root cause analysis focused on systemic contributors Drive remediation actions to completion Reduce incident frequency, severity, and blast radius over time Observability and Operational Insight Design centralized logging, metrics, alerting, and dashboards Define observability standards tied to customer impact Ensure alerts are actionable and low noise Use operational data for capacity planning and scaling decisions Automation and Toil Reduction Identify and eliminate manual or repetitive operational tasks Build automation to reduce operational risk Standardize operational workflows Treat simplicity as a reliability requirement Data and Database Reliability Own production database reliability Design replication, backup, restore, and failover strategies Validate recovery procedures regularly Lead migrations to managed cloud databases such as AWS RDS or Aurora

Technical Qualifications Cloud and Infrastructure Hands on experience operating production systems on AWS or Azure Strong understanding of networking, IAM, load balancing, and managed services Ability to balance cost, reliability, and operational complexity Distributed Systems Experience operating distributed systems in production Strong understanding of partial failure and recovery patterns Ability to diagnose cross stack production issues Observability and Operations Experience with centralized logging, metrics, and alerting Ability to design alerts based on service impact Experience driving improvement from operational data Programming and Automation Strong scripting skills using Python, Node.js, or shell Ability to write production grade operational tooling Comfort modifying application code to improve reliability Databases Experience operating relational databases in production Experience with replication, backup, restore, and failover Experience migrating legacy databases to managed services preferred

Preferred Experience Experience in regulated or safety critical industries such as aviation Familiarity with compliance, auditability, and traceability requirements Experience supporting systems with direct operational impact