Site Reliability Engineer
Side
- Location
- Onsite (Hyderabad, Telangana)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
Side is a global game development and localization studio seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to maintain backend infrastructure and micro-services for studio titles. The role focuses on implementing scalable CI/CD pipelines, managing incident responses, and developing automation tools to support 24/7 production operations.
Skills
Full job details
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to work with the wider engineering team to implement, maintain, and support backend server and micro-services infrastructure for studio titles across various technology stacks. In this role, you will develop and maintain automation tools for development, testing, operations, and IT infrastructure.
This role will help provide 24/7 on-call support for production outages via PagerDuty, whilst collaborating closely with cross-disciplinary stakeholders to communicate impacts and status. You will play a key role in defining and establishing development, testing, release, and support processes for SRE operations.
Other key responsibilities include:
● Monitor lifecycle processes to ensure adherence, and iterate on processes to minimize workflow
times.
● Design, develop, and advocate for automated processes wherever possible.
● Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures through continuous vulnerability assessment and risk
management.
● Manage incident responses and perform thorough root cause analysis.
● Monitor and measure customer experience metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs).
● Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment processes
and improve release velocity
Technical Stack requirements:
● Cloud Platforms: AWS, GCP
● Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, EKS, ECS, GKE, Elastic Beanstalk, Google App Engine
● Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, GCP Cloud Deployment Manager, Ansible
● Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Datadog, Alert Manager, Thanos, AWS CloudWatch
● CI/CD: GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins
● Scripting/Programming: Groovy, Python, Golang
● Version Control: Perforce, GitLab, Subversion
● Operating Systems: Ubuntu, CentOS, MacOS, Amazon Linux, RedHat
Required Qualifications:
● Demonstrate excellent troubleshooting skills in systems infrastructure engineering.
Desired Experience:
● Experience supporting build workloads running on On-Prem VMWare based virtual machines.
● Experience supporting Mobile App or Mobile Gaming build workloads involving platforms such as
Unity, Unreal Engine, Xcode, Android Studio, and Fastlane.