Senior Site Reliability Engineer - India

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JumpCloud lists this Senior Site Reliability Engineer - India role as remote. The listing shows Indiaas its hiring region. Check the full requirements and application link below; a remote label does not override the employer's location rules.

Work arrangement: Remote
Hiring region: India
Employment type: Full-Time
Posted: Oct 19, 2026
Application: Application link supplied

About the role

ROLE OVERVIEW

A senior reliability-engineering role covering JumpCloud's multi-region cloud platform: availability, disaster recovery, observability, infrastructure-as-code, Kubernetes operations and cloud cost efficiency. ABOUT THE EMPLOYER JumpCloud describes itself as an AI-powered unified IT management platform that combines identity, device and access management so organizations can secure their workforce, including autonomous AI agents, at scale.

Every JumpCloud role is remote unless the posting says otherwise. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Scale and improve reliability of multi-region microservices, APIs and authentication infrastructure on AWS/GCP
Build disaster-recovery processes and multi-region failover automation against strict RTO/RPO targets
Define and enforce SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
Lead observability with Datadog and golden-signal monitoring
Lead on-call escalation and major-incident management for 99.99% availability
Facilitate blameless post-incident reviews and remediate root causes
Operate production Kubernetes (EKS) with Argo CD and Kargo GitOps
Maintain modular Terraform across multi-account, multi-region environments
Build FinOps and cost dashboards
Automate away toil with Python or Go tooling
Promote AI-assisted workflows (Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot)
Write runbooks and architecture decision records; mentor engineers

WHAT THE EMPLOYER IS LOOKING FOR

8+ years in SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering on 24/7 mission-critical, highly available distributed systems
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or an equivalent technical discipline
Advanced Python/Go for internal SRE platforms, tools and API integrations
Deep Kubernetes expertise on EKS/GKE: lifecycle, ingress/egress, networking, RBAC and GitOps (Argo CD)
Deep Terraform proficiency and multi-account AWS knowledge (IAM, VPCs, Transit Gateway, ALB/NLB, Route53)
Demonstrated cloud cost-efficiency leadership: right-sizing, cost-allocation tagging, workload optimization and FinOps dashboards
Multi-region disaster-recovery design, testing and failover automation, with DR dashboards
Track record defining SLI/SLOs, managing PagerDuty schedules and optimizing observability platforms
Experience with enterprise service meshes (Istio, Linkerd or similar) and ingress/proxy systems (HAProxy, NGINX or similar)
Technical mentorship and design-doc/RFC writing
Strong problem-solving, communication and collaboration
Team-player who lives the company values

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Basic chaos-engineering knowledge
Secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, External Secrets Operator, Cert-Manager)
DevSecOps practices, service meshes and automated vulnerability remediation
Background in identity services, IAM, enterprise directories or security-focused SaaS

LOCATION, LANGUAGE AND HIRING CONDITIONS

Remote-first: the role is done remotely from within the country named in the posting (India).
Employer requires fluent spoken and written English; interviews and screening are mainly in English. Any extra language needs would be stated in the posting.
JumpCloud has teams in 15+ countries and does not accept resumes from third-party recruiters.
Application: submit a resume plus a short note on why you fit the role.
The employer may use AI tools to help review applications, transcribe or summarise interviews and assess responses; people make the final hiring decisions.
Scam warning from the employer: official messages come only from @jumpcloud.com addresses, and JumpCloud never asks for bank or card details, fees, purchases, or sends cheques for equipment before employment.

Skills and keywords

Python and/or Go (advanced)