Sr. Site Reliability Engineer
PayPal (company site, opens in a new tab)5+ yrsChennaiOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 28–45 LPA
Posted on 11 Sept
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Job description
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About This Role
- Lead incident command during high-severity incidents impacting PayPal and its brands, directing cross-functional teams, authorizing critical actions like rollbacks and failovers.
- Review Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes manifests, and CI/CD configurations rapidly to guide troubleshooting and incident response under pressure.
- Drive site resiliency initiatives including disaster recovery drills, cloud infrastructure risk mitigation, change management approval, and tooling development to improve operational capability.
Minimum Requirements
- 5+ years in site reliability engineering, infrastructure operations, or similar technical operations roles.
- Proven experience managing critical incidents in Infrastructure-as-Code driven environments and strong cloud expertise (AWS and/or GCP mandatory).
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation), Kubernetes, and scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; professional cloud certification (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional) preferred.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced in operating as incident commander with authority over production environments during critical events, including decision-making authority on rollbacks and failovers.
- Strategic in driving reliability, scalability, and automation initiatives across large-scale financial platforms with expertise in cloud-native architectures and multi-cloud environments.
- Comfortable interfacing with executive leadership during high-pressure incidents and postmortems, and mentoring junior engineers on incident response and cloud technologies.