03 · Infrastructure & Ops
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Reliability as an engineering problem, with code
- Fresher (India)
- ₹5 – 10 LPA
- Demand
What it is
SRE is what happens when you treat uptime like a software problem. You define how reliable a service must be, measure it, automate away toil, and lead incident response when things break at scale.
What you actually do all day
- 1Define SLIs, SLOs and error budgets
- 2Automate repetitive operational work away
- 3Lead incident response and write blameless postmortems
- 4Load-test and capacity-plan before traffic spikes
Core tech stack
Code
- Python
- Go
- Bash
Platform
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Cloud
Monitoring
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- PagerDuty
Reality check: Almost never a fresher role — treat it as a 2–4 year target, not a first job.
Good fit if: You stay calm in a crisis and want deep systems knowledge.
Your first step
Master DevOps first. Then learn distributed systems, and practise debugging failures under time pressure.