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At EY, youll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And were counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all. Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Senior level) Description Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a modern way of delivering IT Solutions by imbibing Software engineering principles in Service Delivery to reduce IT Risk to business, improve business resilience, attain predictability & reliability, optimize cost of IT Infra and Ops A Site Reliability Engineer typically has deep software engineering experience encompassing design, build, deploy and manage / maintain an IT solution ensuring resilience, reliability, and performance. An SRE is a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to the development, deployment, and maintenance of applications to maximize system reliability & automation, while improving efficiencies by optimizing resources Responsibilities Defining SLA/SLO/SLI for a product / service Engineering in resilient design and implementation practices into solutions as they go through the product life cycle Engineering out manual effort (Toil) through the development of automated processes and services (e.g., Automated Management of Systems, CI/CD improvements) Developing Observability Solutions to track, report, and measure SLA adherence Help Optimize Cost of IT Infra & Operations - FinOps Critical Situation management SOP / Runbook automation, Toil reduction Data Analytics & System trend analysis Typical Skills And Background 7+ years of experience in software product engineering principles, processes and systems Hands-on experience in Java / J2EE, one of web server (Apache Tomcat or IBM HTTP Server), one of the application servers (Tomcat/WebSphere), and any major RDBMS like Oracle Hands-on experience in at least one CI-CD (Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins) and IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible etc.) Experience in at least one cloud technology (AWS/Azure/GCP etc. and Docker, Pivotal, Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.) and its reliability tools (Azure AppInsight, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor etc.) Experience in Linux (RHEL) operating system performance monitoring parameters and their interpretation, commands used for monitoring Experience in Observability - APM tools (Dynatrace, AppDynamics etc.), metrics / log consolidation (Splunk) and ELK Stack Defining NFRs and SLA/SLO/SLI agreement for a product / platform / services Knowledge on queuing models used, thread pools, request servicing processes etc. Knowledge in Web Services, SOA, ESB (DataPower), RESTFul Knowledge of application design patterns, J2EE application architectures, Microservices, Spring boot & Cloud native architectures Proficiency in Java runtimes, Core Java, Garbage collection, JVM parameters tuning Experience in performance tuning on Application Servers (Tomcat/WAS) Experience in trouble shooting Performance / Scalability / Availability issues Experience in Thread dump, heap dump generation & analysis Knowledge on Query tuning and database designs & models Knowledge at least one automation scripting language like Python Mastery in collaborative software development using Git, Jira, Confluence etc. AI/ML & Data Analytics knowledge and experience is a desirable EY | Building a better working world EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets. Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate. Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today. .
Here's how to pick the right one and stand out in your application.
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That number is real. WorkMundi's database shows 144,883 open engineer roles across the world. India has the most with 31,687 jobs, followed by the United States with 30,084. If you just finished reading one job ad and felt paralyzed by choice, you're not alone—but this scale is actually an advantage. It means you can afford to be selective.
Start by geography and language. The majority of engineer ads—117,837 of them—have the job posting text written in English. Use that as one filter, but remember: the ad text language tells you nothing about whether the role actually requires you to speak English day-to-day. Read the job description carefully. Then check which countries have the volume you're targeting. Singapore, Poland, and Australia round out the top five after India and the US.
Next, learn who's hiring. Accenture has posted 2,801 engineer roles. andurilindustries, speechify, and jobgether are also actively recruiting. If you're applying to one of these names, research their hiring patterns and interview style before you apply. That homework pays off.
When you interview, expect the question every engineer hears: 'Tell me about a time you had to debug a problem that wasn't in your job description.' Have a specific story ready—not a general one. Name the tools, the deadline pressure, and what you learned. Hiring managers listen for whether you see problem-solving as part of the role itself, not a favour.