Site Reliability Engineer

Role: Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Hyderabad

Notice Period: Immediate to 20 Days

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience

• 7–12 years in site reliability, cloud-based data infrastructure, data pipeline observability, automation, and high-availability engineering within EdTech platforms (2U)
• Primary Skills (Must-Have)
• AWS, CI/CD, Jenkins, IAAC, Terraform, Kubernetes
• Secondary Skills (Good-to-Have)
• AWS systems; Dataiku data, Platform updates and patching
• Tools & Platforms
• Data Warehousing & Processing: Snowflake, Redshift, Apache Airflow, dbt
• CI/CD & Deployment: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Terraform
• Cloud & Event Processing: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, Kafka, Step Functions
• Monitoring & Logging: DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, Prometheus, Splunk
• Incident Management: PagerDuty, Opsgenie, AWS Health Dashboard
• Collaboration & Code Review: GitHub, Jira, Confluence

Key Responsibilities

Data Pipeline Reliability & Observability:

- Maintain and optimize highly available, fault-tolerant infrastructure for data pipelines, ETL jobs, and real-time data processing

- Implement end-to-end monitoring of Airflow DAGs, Snowflake queries, and AWS-based data workflows

- Automate data pipeline health checks, error handling, and auto-remediation strategies

Infrastructure & Cloud Automation:

- Deploy and manage AWS-based data infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation

- Optimize Kubernetes (EKS) clusters for processing large-scale datasets and real-time analytics

- Ensure high availability and cost-efficient scaling for Redshift, Snowflake, and data storage solutions

Performance, Monitoring & Incident Response:

- Implement real-time monitoring, logging, and alerting using DataDog, AWS CloudWatch, and Prometheus

- Define and track SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to improve data reliability and uptime

- Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA), security audits, and post-mortems for incidents

Security & Compliance:

- Ensure GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 compliance for data storage, access controls, and retention policies

- Implement AWS security best practices (IAM, KMS, Shield, WAF) to secure data access and encryption

- Secure API gateways, authentication mechanisms, and data lake permissions to prevent unauthorized access

Collaboration & Leadership:

- Work closely with data engineers, analytics teams, and DevOps engineers to enhance data platform reliability

- Participate in incident response drills, disaster recovery planning, and security compliance reviews

- Advocate for best practices in automation, cost optimization, and cloud-native data solutions