Reliability Engineer | AWS Cloud, Containerization, CI/CD, Monitoring, Security & Incidence Response

Location: Pune - Hinjewadi (Ascendas)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Summary
Synechron is seeking an experienced Reliability Engineer to strengthen our cloud-native systems’ stability, scalability, and performance. In this role, you will own AWS infrastructure, containerized workloads, CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks. Your efforts will ensure high availability, operational efficiency, and security in a complex enterprise environment. Collaborating with DevOps, Development, QA, and Security teams, you will drive automation, incident management, and optimization to support the organization’s digital and operational goals.

Software Requirements

• Required: AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, Route 53, S3, CloudWatch), Docker, Terraform or CloudFormation, Python/Bash scripting, monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, X-Ray)

• Preferred: Kubernetes (EKS or other), Jenkins or Azure DevOps, Blue/Green and Canary deployment tools, Secrets management tools, vulnerability scanning tools

• Experience level: Proven hands-on expertise owning cloud infrastructure and automation in production environments

Overall Responsibilities

• Define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability strategies aligning with organizational targets

• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure including compute, storage, network, and security components

• Containerize, orchestrate, and operate services using Docker and Kubernetes or ECS/EKS

• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous delivery with blue/green and canary deployment practices

• Implement and maintain observability solutions—metrics, logs, traces—using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack

• Automate operational tasks through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting

• Establish incident management practices, including on-call support, runbooks, root cause analysis, and postmortems

• Drive system performance tuning, capacity planning, and cost management initiatives

• Enforce security best practices such as IAM least privilege, secrets management, SSL/TLS, and vulnerability assessments

Technical Skills (By Category)

• Programming Languages:

  • Required: Python, Bash scripting

  • Preferred: Go, Ruby, or other scripting languages for automation

• Databases/Data Management:

  • Familiarity with AWS RDS, Redis/ElastiCache, and storage services (S3, EFS)

• Cloud Technologies:

  • Required: AWS core services, infrastructure deployment, and management

• Frameworks and Libraries:

  • Experience with cloud-native automation frameworks, monitoring, and logging tools

• Development Tools & Methodologies:

  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps), version control (Git), containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS)

• Security Protocols:

  • Knowledge of TLS/SSL, IAM policies, service mesh security, secrets management (HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager)

Experience Requirements

• 7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or cloud operations with direct production responsibilities

• Hands-on experience managing AWS infrastructure, containerized workloads, and CI/CD pipelines

• Demonstrable experience with observability, incident response, and automation in enterprise environments

• Industry experience in finance, banking, fintech, or other regulated sectors is preferred

• Alternative pathways: Extensive experience in large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure design, or security-focused cloud operations

Day-to-Day Activities

• Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure, ensuring stability, resilience, and security

• Maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Monitor system health through metrics, logs, and trace tools, responding to incidents proactively

• Collaborate with development teams to incorporate reliability patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, and health checks

• Perform capacity planning and cost optimization activities

• Document procedures, runbooks, and post-incident reports

• Conduct routine performance tuning, vulnerability scans, and security updates

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field; equivalent practical experience accepted

• Certifications such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent are highly desirable

• Proven experience leading infrastructure operations and reliability initiatives in cloud environments

• A continued commitment to staying current with cloud certifications, security standards, and automation tools

Professional Competencies

• Strong analytical skills with a focus on failure prevention and system resilience

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills for cross-team coordination

• Ability to influence and lead technical initiatives and best practices

• Self-motivated with a problem-solving mindset and proactive approach to operational challenges

• Capacity to learn continuously and adapt to evolving cloud technologies and best practices

• Focus on delivering dependable, scalable, and secure systems

S​YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
 

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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