Senior SRE Engineer

EPAM Systems

Chennai, INonsitePosted Jul 16, 2026
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Skills

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About the role

EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.

We are looking for a Senior SRE Engineer to join our collaborative team.

Our team is building the platform fueling digital transformation. We take a cloud-first approach to deliver customer-centric experiences and platform web services that are used by product teams and partners.

As a Senior SRE Engineer, you'll be a vital part of the Engagement Team for Digital Transformation. This team enables and aids product teams and partners by adopting and integrating cloud services with a customer-centric ideology always in mind. You will be an expert in cloud services, building, proving out, and communicating the value of the platform that is enabling Digital Transformation.

Responsibilities

Design and implement high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for critical workloads

Build, maintain, and evolve cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code practices

Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable and efficient delivery

Implement and maintain monitoring, observability, and alerting across the platform

Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives and platform-wide automation projects

Ensure networking, security, and identity/access management best practices in the cloud

Collaborate with product teams and partners to adopt and integrate cloud services

Optimize infrastructure costs by applying FinOps practices and cost optimization frameworks

Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive improvements

Mentor engineers and influence reliability standards across teams

Requirements

5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles

Deep AWS expertise (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudFormation/Terraform, etc.)

Strong knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation

Proven experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar

Proficiency in containerization and orchestration with Docker, Kubernetes, and ECS or EKS

Expertise in monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch, etc.)

Strong scripting or programming competency in Python, Bash, or Go

Sound understanding of networking, security, and identity/access management in the cloud

Experience designing high-availability and disaster recovery strategies for critical workloads

Excellent communication, problem-solving, and leadership skills with the ability to influence across teams

Nice to have

AWS or other Cloud Certification (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, etc.)

Experience with AIOps, Serverless Architectures, and event-driven systems

Familiarity with FinOps practices and cost optimization frameworks

Experience with SaaS monitoring tools such as Sumo Logic, PagerDuty, or similar

Exposure to Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)

Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL databases

We offer

Opportunity to work on technical challenges that may impact across geographies

Vast opportunities for self-development: online university, knowledge sharing opportunities globally, learning opportunities through external certifications

Opportunity to share your ideas on international platforms

Sponsored Tech Talks & Hackathons

Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions

Possibility to relocate to any EPAM office for short and long-term projects

Focused individual development

Benefit package:

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Flexible benefits

Forums to explore beyond work passion (CSR, photography, painting, sports, etc.)

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