SRE Engineer

Project overview

This contract SRE Engineer role supports the day-to-day reliability and operations of containerized applications running on-premises, on AKS, and in hybrid environments. The core requirements are hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting, container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes administration across AKS and on-premises K8/K3s, and NGINX administration and troubleshooting. The work includes monitoring service health, resolving issues across the application and infrastructure stack, supporting deployments and upgrades, investigating incidents, and maintaining operational runbooks.

Azure Application Gateway, n8n, Kafka, container registries, Helm, scripting, and hybrid Azure integration are beneficial but not required. The stated experience band is 8–10 years, the location is India, and the employment type is contract; the description does not specify a work mode.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical and operational support for containerized applications deployed on-premises, AKS, or hybrid models.
• Monitor application and platform health and proactively identify performance, availability, and reliability issues.
• Troubleshoot application issues across the full technology stack including
• Kubernetes pods (K8/K3), deployments, services, and ingress.
• Docker/container runtimes and container images.
• Linux operating systems.
• Application networking, DNS, TLS/SSL, and connectivity.
• Reverse proxies and load balancing.
• Application logs and service dependencies.
• Support and troubleshoot NGINX configurations (reverse proxying, routing, TLS, headers, upstream services, and application connectivity).
• Assist with containerized deployments, configuration changes, application upgrades, testing, releases, patching, environment upgrades, and troubleshooting of failed or degraded workloads.
• Support containerized applications running directly on RHEL and Ubuntu Linux hosts.

Requirements

• Linux administration and troubleshooting, including RHEL and Ubuntu
• Docker or equivalent container runtime administration and containerization concepts
• Kubernetes administration for AKS and on-premises Kubernetes or K3s
• NGINX administration and troubleshooting
• Operational support and troubleshooting of containerized application deployments
• Troubleshooting application networking, DNS, TLS/SSL, connectivity, and service dependencies

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: India, IN
• Languages: English