Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Smarsh · Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 9 - 15 years · ₹40L - ₹50L / yr · Profitable · Posted 6 Mar 2023

Company Description
Smarsh is the leader in communications compliance, archiving, and analytics. We provide compliance across the broadest set of communications channels with insights on what’s being captured. Smarsh customers manage over 500 million daily conversations across 80 channels and growing. Customers include the top 10 U.S., top 8 European, top 5 Canadian, and top 3 Asian banks. The Smarsh advantage is customers stay ahead of compliance and uncover patterns and relationships hidden within their data.
At Smarsh , we’ve been helping our customers manage new forms of communication since 1998. We work closely with regulators including the SEC, FINRA, IIROC, and the PRA and FCA, and with our customers, to ensure that they understand the capabilities of today’s technology and that our platform meets their most stringent requirements. Our products include Connected Capture, Connected Archive, Web Archive & Business Solutions.
About the team
Are you an SRE with excellent Observability, Containerization and Orchestration skills? As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in the Smarsh SaaS Operations team, you'll be part of a team who measures and improves production performance reliability through sustainable engineering practices for our suite of applications. Toil will be your number one enemy, observability your closest friend and your mission will be to drive operational burden as close to zero as you can.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for technical direction at the platform solutions level. Is able to weigh the pros and cons of various solutions and credibly argue for the best path
- Work closely with Product Management and the rest of the engineering team to define features and their implementations with careful attention to quality, scalability, and maintainability
- Can break down complex technical solutions into abstractions that the rest of the team and understand
- Can investigate and solve complex bugs, performance, and scalability issues
- Collaborates with multiple agile teams to ensure their solutions integrate effectively
- Track work in ticketing system (JIRA)
- Participate in Pull Request reviews. Provide and receive feedback to continuously improve.
- Other duties as assigned.
Desired skills & experience
- A minimum 10+ years industry experience
- Masters in CS or equivalent
- Must have experience in Azure or AWS, either running some large-scale app there or migrating to Azure/AWS.
- Experience operating Cloud Foundry in production environments
- Experience managing CI/CD systems (Concourse, Jenkins, TravisCI etc.)
- Experience deploying and/or operating ELK stack
- Experience with container technologies and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry)
- Experience working with monitoring and observability tools (We use Datadog and New Relic)
- Familiarity with working with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
- Background working in a multi-platform environment (Linux, Windows)
- Experience with running on a cloud platform, AWS preferred (S3, RDS, SQS)
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies
- Familiarity with programming/scripting languages (ie. Python, Bash, PowerShell, Go, etc.)
Additional Skills
- Expert programming skills in relevant languages
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Deep understanding of modern software architecture
- Deep domain knowledge of the industry, platform, and existing processes
- Fault-tolerant design & maintenance
- Knowledge and understanding of modern software programming/engineering.
- Product delivery lifecycle - requirement refinement through ops
Why Smarsh?
Ready to join a thriving tech company that’s redefining digital archiving and business intelligence?
Smarsh is the leading comprehensive archiving platform. Recognized as one of today’s fastest growing companies in the U.S., Smarsh delivers innovative cloud-based solutions that help organizations manage and enforce flexible and secure records retention and compliance strategies for electronic communications, including social media and enterprise social networks (Yammer, Chatter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more).
Our motto is ‘People First. Inspire Confidence. Embrace the Impossible.’ We hire lifelong learners who have a passion for their discipline and a track record of excellence. To learn more about us, visit www.smarsh.com/careers

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Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-time
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- Participate in incident/severity calls, ensuring clear communication and coordination
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- Hands-on experience troubleshooting applications in staging and production environments
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- Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitOps)
- Experience in API testing and validation using tools like Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
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● Lead and manage the Cloud Reliability teams to provide strong Managed Services support to end-customers.
● Isolate, troubleshoot and resolve issues reported by CMS clients in their cloud environment
● Drive the communication with the customer providing details about the issue, current steps, next plan of action, ETA
● Gather client's requirements related to use of specic cloud services and provide assistance in seing them up and resolving issues
● Create SOPs and knowledge articles for use by the L1 teams to resolve common issues
● Identify recurring issues, perform root cause analysis and propose/implement preventive actions
● Follow change management procedure to identify, record and implement changes
● Plan and deploy OS, security patches in Windows/Linux environment and upgrade k8s clusters
● Identify the recurring manual activities and contribute to automation
● Provide technical guidance and educate team members on development and operations. Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve.
● System troubleshooting and problem-solving across plaorm and application domains. Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services.
● Build, maintain, and monitor conguration standards.
● Ensuring critical system security through using best-in-class cloud security solutions.
Qualifications
● 4-7 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains and IT operational experience preferably in a global enterprise environment.
● Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
● Hands on experience with AWS/GCP services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine)
● Understanding of one or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, .Net)
● Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
● Knowledge on Conguration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef
● Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
● Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
● Knowledge on programming against cloud plaorms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.
● Strong service aitude and a commitment to quality.
● Willingness to work in shifts.
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Lead Cloud Reliability Engineer
Job Responsibilities
● Lead and manage the Cloud Reliability teams to provide strong Managed Services support to end-customers.
● Isolate, troubleshoot and resolve issues reported by CMS clients in their cloud environment
● Drive the communication with the customer providing details about the issue, current steps, next plan of action, ETA
● Gather client's requirements related to use of specic cloud services and provide assistance in seing them up and resolving issues
● Create SOPs and knowledge articles for use by the L1 teams to resolve common issues
● Identify recurring issues, perform root cause analysis and propose/implement preventive actions
● Follow change management procedure to identify, record and implement changes
● Plan and deploy OS, security patches in Windows/Linux environment and upgrade k8s clusters
● Identify the recurring manual activities and contribute to automation
● Provide technical guidance and educate team members on development and operations. Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve.
● System troubleshooting and problem-solving across plaorm and application domains. Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services.
● Build, maintain, and monitor conguration standards.
● Ensuring critical system security through using best-in-class cloud security solutions.
Qualifications
● 4-7 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains and IT operational experience preferably in a global enterprise environment.
● Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
● Hands on experience with AWS/GCP services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine)
● Understanding of one or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, .Net)
● Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
● Knowledge on Conguration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef
● Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
● Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
● Knowledge on programming against cloud plaorms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.
● Strong service aitude and a commitment to quality.
● Willingness to work in shifts.
Location - Bangalore Skill/Experience Expectations: 1. Total Experience 7-11 yrs 2. 3-4 years in managing scalable production environment 3. 2-4 yr experience in managing Google cloud infrastructure 4. proficient in terraform and any programming language 5. Expert in designing and managing observability solutions 6. 5 yr experience in DevOps and SRE practices and troubleshooting critical incidents.
Senior Platform & Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote Employment Type: Contract
The Role
This role carries full architectural and operational ownership of the platform layer across a growing SaaS portfolio. The Cloud Architect owns AWS infrastructure standards — VPCs, account structures, networking, and compute design. Everything outside that lane is yours: the CI/CD platform, the observability and reliability stack, the event streaming infrastructure, the deployment pipelines, and the incident engineering model.
Architectural decisions are yours to make and defend, standards are yours to define and enforce, and the reliability of 20+ enterprise SaaS products depends on what you and your team build.
This is an AI-native engineering organisation. Where it is practical and safe to do so, you are expected to use automation and AI-assisted tooling to reduce toil — in CI/CD triage, infrastructure provisioning, observability workflows, and acquisition onboarding. The expectation is not to replace engineering judgement with automation, but to free it up for the problems that genuinely require it.
The Scale You Will Operate At
The portfolio consists of 20+ live, enterprise-grade SaaS solutions running concurrently. Each product serves enterprise customers and processes millions to billions of real-time requests. The architecture is serious: event streaming for real-time data pipelines, batch processing workloads running alongside live transaction flows, and multi-tenant enterprise-grade reliability expectations across every product.
You will design and operate the platform infrastructure that underpins all of it — scaling horizontally as each new acquisition joins the portfolio, without proportionally scaling cost, complexity, or headcount.
What You Will Own
Platform Architecture
- Full architectural ownership of the non-AWS toolchain: CI/CD, observability, event streaming, automation, secrets, and deployment infrastructure
- Define, build, and enforce platform standards across portfolio products
- Terraform IaC for all infrastructure — nothing provisioned manually, everything versioned and reviewed
- Self-service developer platform so product teams ship without waiting on platform
Event Streaming & Pipeline Infrastructure
- Own the event streaming architecture, operational standards, and health monitoring across all products using real-time pipelines
- Design and maintain batch processing infrastructure alongside live event flows
- Ensure pipeline reliability, throughput, and cost are actively managed at scale
CI/CD & Deployment
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) across all portfolio products
- Automate triage and retry logic for known failure classes — flaky tests, dependency timeouts, OOM kills — so engineers are only paged for genuinely novel failures
- Deployment standards: release management, rollback mechanisms, canary and blue-green patterns where justified
Observability & Reliability
- Own the full observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki across all products
- SLOs and error budgets defined per product; reliability tracked consistently
- Build alerting that correlates signals and surfaces diagnostic context alongside notifications — so on-call engineers arrive at an incident with hypotheses, not a blank screen
- Incident response: on-call design, escalation playbooks, post-mortem facilitation
- Automated remediation scoped to safe, idempotent actions — container restarts, ECS task scaling, known rollback patterns; novel or ambiguous failures escalate to a human with full context attached
Acquisition Onboarding
- Platform audit and gap analysis for every new acquisition — assessing CI/CD maturity, IaC coverage, observability gaps, and security posture
- Migration plan and execution for each portfolio company joining the platform — sequenced to avoid disrupting live operations
- Target: full platform integration within a defined window per acquisition
A Note on Automation
Where automation is safe and failure modes are well understood — routine provisioning, known CI/CD failure classes, secrets rotation, cost anomaly flagging — aggressive automation is expected. Where automation would act on ambiguous signals or carry significant blast radius, human judgement stays in the loop. The goal is to reduce toil on solved problems, not to automate decisions that require engineering expertise.
Platform Stack
Area Stack / Standard IaC Terraform OSS / OpenTofu CI/CD GitHub Actions Event Streaming Architecture and tooling chosen for the workload Observability Grafana, Prometheus, Loki Log Management AWS CloudWatch, Grafana Loki Incident Management OpsGenie (startup tier) or Better Uptime Secrets AWS Secrets Manager / HashiCorp Vault OSS Containers ECS (default), EKS only where justified Cost Monitoring AWS Cost Explorer with custom dashboards What We’re Looking For
- 8–12 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE — with clear evidence of increasing ownership over time
- Strong Terraform depth across multi-environment, multi-account setups
- CI/CD ownership across a multi-product environment with GitHub Actions
- Experience with event streaming infrastructure at production scale — design, operations, reliability, and cost management
- Hands-on Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki in production
- AWS operational depth: ECS, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, Cost Explorer
- SRE fundamentals: SLOs, error budgets, on-call design, post-mortem culture
- Acquisition or greenfield platform integration experience strongly preferred
How You Work
- Comfortable operating across multiple products simultaneously — context-switching without dropping standards
- Cost-efficiency instinct — you optimise spend as a habit, not as a project
- You treat automation as a tool for eliminating toil, not a substitute for engineering judgement
- You document decisions, enforce standards through code, and build platforms that other engineers find intuitive to use
Why This Role
The platform function is being built from the ground up. You will have architectural ownership of the entire non-AWS platform layer across a growing portfolio of enterprise SaaS products, with the freedom — and responsibility — to build the reliability and delivery culture of the organisation.
This is not a role that inherits someone else’s decisions and maintains them. Every major architectural choice is still to be made. If you want to build something that lasts and that other engineers depend on, this is the role.






