Site Reliability Engineer
Zeiss Group Open · verified Oct 24, 2026 At a glance
Mid-level Site Reliability role at Zeiss Group. Bangalore · full-time.
Pay not stated Site Reliability Engineer salary
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What you'll do
- Take first-line responsibility for applications operating across multiple regional locations
- Investigate application problems with Grafana, Loki and Mimir, using service metrics, logs and traces
- Use database and messaging technologies to track down service-level problems
- Help respond to incidents, find root causes and restore services
- Support Azure Kubernetes workloads, coordinate cluster and application troubleshooting, and send unresolved bugs to product or platform teams
What you bring
- At least five years in site reliability engineering or a comparable role
- Hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, Azure, databases, messaging systems and GitOps tools
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering, or equivalent work experience
- AZ-104, CKA or equivalent experience
Who this fits
This role suits someone who can investigate service issues independently and think through problems carefully. It is based in Bangalore, India.
From the employer
ZEISS in India
ZEISS in India is headquartered in Bengaluru and present in the fields of Industrial Quality Solutions, Research Microscopy Solutions, Medical Technology, Vision Care and Sports & Cine Optics.
ZEISS India has 3 production facilities, R&D center, Global IT services and about 40 Sales & Service offices in almost all Tier I and Tier II cities in India. With 2200+ employees and continued investments over 25 years in India, ZEISS’ success story in India is continuing at a rapid pace.
Further information at ZEISS India.
- Act as first-line technical owner for applications running across multiple regional locations
- Perform deep service-level diagnostics when application issues arise using observability tooling (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, metrics, logs, traces)
- Work with databases and messaging bus technologies to identify service-level issues
- Support incident response, root cause analysis, and service restoration.
- Operate and support workloads running on Azure-based Kubernetes platforms
- Understand Kubernetes pod lifecycle, networking, storage, scaling, and failure scenarios
- Collaborate with platform teams on cluster-level issues and application teams on service-level issues
- Reporting new bugs/issues back to product/platform teams when the problem cannot be solved through extended diagnostics
Education
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
Work Experience
A minimum of 5 years of experience in a SRE role or similar.
Strong Knowledge & hands-on experience with below key technologies:
- Containerization platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Cloud platforms (e.g., Azure)
- Databases and messaging bus (MongoDB, MSSQ, pSQL, Kafka)
- Templating concepts and GitOps frameworks (i.e Helm, Kustomize)
- Version control and CI/CD systems (e.g., Git, Azure Devops, ArgoCD)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform)
AZ-104 – Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate, CKA – Certified Kubernetes Administrator or equivalent experience
Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Proactive attitude and high degree of independence.
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:
Itishree Pani
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