Senior Site Reliability Engineer
JOB DESCRIPTION
Skill-
Role: T3
Key Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure applications and infrastructure in cloud or hybrid environments
Implement and manage robust monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
Automate recurrent operational tasks using scripts (e.g., Python) and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform)
Collaborate with engineers to build highly available, reliable, deployable systems, establishing guardrails around SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
Own incident response by participating in on-call rotations, conducting RCAs, and implementing preventive measures and self-healing solutions
Conduct performance tuning, capacity planning, and efficient disaster recovery design for strong Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO)
Work closely with the product team to stay informed about evolving system design, business logic, and transaction flows to ensure reliability and operational readiness across services
Identify and address organization-wide gaps in the SRE domain and develop implementable solutions that contribute to reliability and operational excellence
Required Qualifications
Five (5)+ years as an SRE, DevOps, or related role managing large-scale solutions or platforms
Proficient in scripting (PowerShell, Python, Go, Bash) and solid understanding of coding/development principles
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Experienced with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools
Familiar with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD)
Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM
Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, especially in high-pressure, production-critical environments
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Desired Qualifications
Experience with Terraform and other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
SRE-specific certifications from AWS, GCP, or Azure
Experience shaping and scaling SRE practices
Experience mentoring teams and fostering a strong reliability culture across the organization
About Virtusa
Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 21,000 people globally that cares about your growth — one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.
Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team
environment of our company and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas
and foster excellence.
Learn more at www.virtusa.com
Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis
of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental
disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All