Senior Site Reliability Engineer

GoDaddy

. Own the Kubernetes-aware patching path, including cordon/drain/uncordon coordination, etcd quorum gating, per-cluster lock prioritisation, and deadlock prevention .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeRemote • IndiaSenior💰 ₹3,371,000 - ₹8,190,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering with a strong focus on Kubernetes operations, Linux systems administration, and automation using Ansible and Terraform. Capable of leading incident response, mentoring junior team members, and contributing to architectural decisions while driving AI and automation initiatives.

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Kubernetes Operational DepthAnsible ProficiencyLinux Systems AdministrationTerraform / IaC LiteracyIncident Response Experience

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Hard Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringAnsibleLinux AdministrationKubernetesTerraformPython ScriptingGitHub ActionsHashiCorp VaultGrafanaMySQL

Soft Skills

MentoringCommunication

Tools & Technologies

AWXServiceNowPrometheusLokiCI Pipeline

Industry Keywords

Incident ResponseAI AutomationSLI / SLO LiteracyChange ManagementCloud Infrastructure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleCloudGrafanaHAProxyKubernetesLinuxMySQLNode.jsOpenStackPrometheusPythonServiceNowTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the Kubernetes-aware patching path, including cordon/drain/uncordon coordination, etcd quorum gating, per-cluster lock prioritisation, and deadlock prevention
Own cluster onboarding end-to-end, reduce lead time from weeks to days, identify friction points, document repeatable steps, and build runbooks
Own the Vault integration surface, including AppRole credential management, PKI certificate lifecycle, Vault-backed AWX credential types, and IAM key rotation
Build meaningful alerting and own at least one Grafana dashboard area end-to-end, from metrics ingestion through actionable alert rules
Contribute to AI and automation initiatives, including the AI-driven vulnerability remediation pipeline and tooling that reduces team toil
Mentor junior contributors and participate in code reviews
Contribute to architectural decisions alongside Staff leads
Participate in the on-call rotation
Own incident response independently at the Senior level, including timeline, communication, and blameless postmortem
Build and operate the Linux Patching Automation platform, a multi-cluster AWX automation system that keeps GoDaddy's Linux fleet patched and secure

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of hands-on Site Reliability Engineering or infrastructure engineering experience in a production environment
Strong Ansible practitioner; able to write idempotent roles and playbooks independently and understand variable precedence, handlers, and molecule-style testing
Linux systems administration experience with yum/dnf, systemd, kernel patching, and diagnosing package conflicts
Kubernetes operational depth, including pod scheduling, node lifecycle, and etcd quorum awareness
Terraform / IaC literacy; able to read, modify, and write modules configured through variable files
Python scripting experience sufficient to own and extend utility scripts and the machine learning-based vulnerability pipeline
GitHub Actions and CI pipeline experience, including ansible-lint, Semgrep gates, and conventional commit standards
Prior on-call rotation and incident response experience; able to own an incident independently
Active participation in AI-assisted development
SLI / SLO literacy
HashiCorp Vault experience, including AppRole, PKI, or dynamic secrets (preferred)
AWX / Automation Controller operational experience (preferred)
ServiceNow experience with CMDB, Change Orders, or REST API integration
Grafana / Loki / Prometheus experience building dashboards and alert rules
MySQL replica awareness
HAProxy or load-balancer-aware drain logic
OpenStack or comparable private cloud / bare-metal exposure
Experience identifying and reducing process lead time
The posting encourages applications from candidates whose experience or skillset does not align perfectly with every requirement

Benefits

Comp & perks

Paid time off
Retirement savings, including 401k and pension schemes
Bonus/incentive eligibility
Equity grants
Employee stock purchase plan
Competitive health benefits
Parental leave
Family-friendly benefits
Employee Resource Groups
Application assistance from the recruiting team