Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Purpose As a Principal Platform Engineer / Principal SRE Engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating scalable, reliable, and highly automated infrastructure powering SonyLIV’s digital streaming platform. This role requires deep hands-on expertise across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, production operations, and automation. You will work closely with engineering, video, CDN, security, and platform teams to improve system reliability, deployment efficiency, scalability, and operational excellence. This is a deeply technical individual contributor role focused on execution, debugging, automation, and solving large-scale infrastructure and reliability challenges. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native infrastructure on AWS Build reusable Infrastructure-as-Code modules and automation frameworks using Terraform Manage and optimize Kubernetes-based production platforms and containerized workloads Improve infrastructure scalability, resiliency, reliability, and operational efficiency Reliability Engineering & Production Operations Take ownership of production reliability, system uptime, and operational excellence Participate in incident response, production troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and permanent fix implementation Support critical production systems during live events and high traffic situations Define and improve operational standards around SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and MTTR reduction Observability & Monitoring Build and maintain observability platforms across metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting Implement and improve monitoring solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/Loki and distributed tracing systems Improve proactive detection, alert quality, debugging workflows, and operational visibility CI/CD & Automation Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation workflows Implement GitOps and progressive delivery practices including canary and blue-green deployments Automate repetitive operational and infrastructure tasks using Python, Go, or Bash Security & Platform Governance Implement security-as-code practices across infrastructure and CI/CD systems Work on vulnerability scanning, secrets management, SBOM tooling, and container/image security Contribute to platform governance, policy enforcement, and infrastructure standardization Engineering Collaboration Work closely with application, video, data, CDN, and security teams to improve platform stability and scalability Help improve engineering productivity through internal tooling and platform capabilitie Drive operational best practices across production systems and engineering workflows Technical Competencies 8+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Engineering Strong hands-on expertise with: Terraform Jenkins Bitbucket Pipelines Kubernetes Docker Strong experience with: AWS cloud platform Cloud-native architectures Distributed systems Production-scale infrastructure operations Strong understanding of: CI/CD pipelines GitOps workflows Progressive delivery patterns Reliability engineering principles Hands-on experience with observability technologies: Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry ELK / Loki Distributed tracing systems Experience defining and operating: SLOs / SLIs Error Budgets DORA Metrics Strong scripting/programming skills in: Python Go Bash Hands-on development experience with: React Python Golang Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and production incident handling skills Experience with OPA/Rego or Conftest for Policy-as-Code Familiarity with Chaos Engineering tools such as: Litmus Gremlin Chaos Monkey Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) or developer portals like Backstage Experience with: Secrets management systems (Vault or equivalent) Vulnerability scanning SBOM tooling Container/image signin Experience working on: OTT platforms Video streaming systems CDN infrastructure Live sports streaming platforms Understanding of video delivery workflows, adaptive bitrate streaming, and large-scale traffic management Why join us ? Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited (SPNI) (formerly known as Culver Max Entertainment Private Limited) is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, Japan. A leading media and entertainment conglomerate, SPNI comprises 29 Premium Channels in both SD and HD formats, including leading Hindi General Entertainment Television Channels - Sony Entertainment Television; Sony SAB and Sony PAL; Marathi General Entertainment Channel - Sony Marathi; Bangla General Entertainment Channel - Sony AATH; Hindi Movie Channels - Sony MAX, Sony MAX 1, Sony MAX 2 and Sony WAH; renowned destination for sports fans - Sony Sports Network comprising Sony Sports Ten 1, Sony Sports Ten 2, Sony Sports Ten 3, Sony Sports Ten 4, Sony Sports Ten 5; Kids Entertainment Channel - Sony YAY!; English Movie Channel - Sony PIX; Factual Entertainment Channel - Sony BBC Earth; Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television (FAST) channel in the US and Canada – Sony KAL; Digital entertainment OTT platform - Sony LIV and the independent production venture for original content and IPs for TV and digital media - Studio NEXT. This Network reaches out to over 700 million viewers in India and is available in over 150 countries Recognized as an employer of choice within and outside the media industry, SPNI is a recipient of several awards, including India’s Best Companies to Work For 2021 by the Great Place to Work® Institute, India, Exemplars of Inclusion in AVTAR & Seramount’s Most Inclusive Companies Index 2024 and listed as one of the 100 Best Companies for Women in India for eight consecutive years by AVTAR & Seramount. In recognition of the company’s unique workplace culture and exceptional people practices SPNI won the ET Future Skills 2024 for Best Learning Program Supporting Change Transformation Business Strategy, and the TISS LeapVault CLO Awards 2024 for Best Employee Engagement Program and Best Games Based Learning Program SPNI is in its 31st year of operations in India.

Besides having overseas subsidiaries, it has a subsidiary MSM-Worldwide Factual Media Private Limited, and an affiliate, Bangla Entertainment Private Limited in India.