infrastructure
Posted YesterdaySRE Engineer II
at Rackspace
Hyderabad, IndiaOn-site
Responsibilities
- Monitor system health and maintain SLA/SLO adherence.
- Automate operational tasks to eliminate repetitive toil.
- Collaborate with dev teams on deployment reliability and capacity planning.
Requirements
- Required Skills: Operating Systems Hands-on with Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu) — systemd, process management, file systems, performance tuning.
- Working knowledge of Windows Server and event log analysis. Cloud Practical
- experience on AWS / Azure / GCP — compute, storage, IAM, networking, and managed services.
- Familiarity with Terraform or equivalent IaC tools.
- Scripting & Automation Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation, API interaction, and operational tooling.
- Network Troubleshooting (In-Depth) Strong command of TCP/IP internals — handshake lifecycle, connection states (TIME_WAIT, CLOSE_WAIT, SYN_FLOOD), packet flow, and socket behaviour.
- Hands-on with tools like tcpdump, Wireshark, netstat/ss, traceroute, mtr, and dig.
- Solid understanding of DNS resolution, TLS/SSL negotiation, NAT, firewalls, and routing.
- Application & HTTP Troubleshooting Deep understanding of HTTP/HTTPS methods, status codes, headers, and request lifecycle.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK.
- Ability to build dashboards, configure meaningful alerts, and trace issues end-to-end.
- We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future.
- If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Benefits
- We welcome you to apply today and want you to know that we are committed to offering equal employment opportunity without regard to age, color, disability, gender reassignment or identity or expression, genetic information, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, military or veteran status, nationality, ethnic or national origin, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any legally protected characteristic.
Additional details
- Experience: 3–8 Years Work Timings - Should be ok for 24x7 shift rotation.
- About the Role We're looking for an SRE L2 to own reliability, incident response, and automation across our production infrastructure.
- You'll serve as an escalation point, drive root cause analysis, and reduce toil through scripting and tooling. Key
- Responsibilities Own L2 incident response, RCA, and post-mortems for production issues.
- Participate in on-call rotation and maintain runbooks.
- Exposure to Ansible or similar config management is a plus.
- Able to diagnose latency, packet loss, port exhaustion, and network-level bottlenecks at the OS and infrastructure layer.
- Comfortable debugging through curl, Postman, access logs, and reverse proxy configs (Nginx / HAProxy). Observability
- Soft Skills Strong analytical thinking, clear communication under pressure, and a bias toward automation and continuous improvement. About Rackspace Technology We are the multicloud solutions experts.
- We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions.