Principal SRE Engineer

We are looking for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer(SRE) to set the technical direction for the reliability performance and scalability of our hybrid infrastructure. As the most senior technical authority in the SRE function you will define architecture and engineering standards across cloud and on-premise environments promote the use of modern SRE practices. This is a hands-on technical role (90%) with influence and technical mentorship responsibilities (10%). You will operate as a force multiplier raising the technical bar for the entire engineering organisation rather than managing a team directly.

Technical Responsibilities (90%)

• Architect scalable secure and cost-efficient cloud and hybrid solutions and establish the patterns and reference implementations other teams build on.
• Define the observability strategy across the organisation: monitoring logging alerting SLIs/SLOs and error budgets using Datadog Elastic OpenTelemetry and similar tooling.
• Set standards for high availability disaster recovery and backup across hybrid environments and validate them through failure testing.
• Partner with development security and platform teams to shape deployment pipelines (CI/CD) and GitOps workflows at scale.
• Establish and maintain organisation-wide technical documentation runbooks architectural decision records and operational standards.
• Identify systemic reliability bottlenecks lead complex root-cause analysis and reduce operational load through automation and platform improvements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the most complex production issues and lead major incident response.
• Provide deep 3rd line technical support and participate in the on-call rotation as an escalation point.

Technical Leadership & Influence (10%)

• Be a technical mentor for SREs and engineers across teams raising the engineering bar through coaching and knowledge-sharing.
• Lead structured up skilling and enablement across Windows Linux AWS and Kubernetes.
• Influence and align Product Engineering Security Platform and Operations teams around reliability goals and technical direction.
• Shape the SRE roadmap together with SRE Leadership and SRE Guild and lead prioritisation of main reliability and platform programmes.
• Communicate technical strategy and trade-offs to both engineering teams and senior partners and lead accountability for reliability outcomes.
• Champion a culture of operational excellence ownership and continuous improvement across the organisation.

Qualifications :

Experience:

• 10 years of experience in SRE DevOps Platform Engineering or Cloud Engineering with experience operating at a senior or principal level.
• Deep hands-on expertise with On-prem and large-scale AWS environments.
• Expert-level experience running Kubernetes in production (EKS EKS Anywhere EKS Hybrid preferred) including group design scaling and hardening.
• Background leading migrations of IIS/.NET and Linux-based applications to cloud and Kubernetes.
• Expert-level Infrastructure-as-Code skills Terraform including module design and standards for large teams.
• Knowledge of GitOps (ArgoCD) automated deployments and configuration management.
• Across Windows Linux networking and distributed systems.
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog Prometheus OpenTelemetry) and defining SLI/SLO/error-budget practices.
• Experience with security best practices in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Experience operating in 24/7 high-availability mission-critical environments.
• Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and driving company-wide technical standards.

Additional Information :

Benefits

At Entain India we offer a strong package and the support people need to make an impact. Join us and a great compensation package is just the beginning. You can expect to receive benefits like:

• Safe home pickup and home drop.
• A regular bonus and great pension.
• 24 days annual leave.
• Extra paid leave including wellbeing and development days.
• Life assurance and Income Protection.
• Private healthcare and wellbeing support.
• INR 3000 per month Communication allowance.
• Up to INR 16000 per year in Crèche expenses (children under 3).

Equal Opportunities.

If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please contact us and well support you.

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Were an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from everyone and we do not discriminate based on age disability gender or gender reassignment pregnancy or maternity race religion or belief sexual orientation marriage/civil partnership or any other basis.

We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time