Senior Principal SRE Engineering

lilly

Hyderabad 14 Years Exp Posted 25d ago

1) Reliability strategy and SLO governance

Define service-level objectives and indicators across the supported production estate, tiered by application risk and business impact.
Govern error-budget burn: when to slow change, when to invest in durable fixes, when to accept the budget.
Drive the adoption of reliability reporting and the disciplined operating cadence that makes SLOs real, not decorative.
Hold the SLO and error-budget conversation with product and application owners — including the conversation about what their service needs to change to meet the bar.

Establish observability and instrumentation standards as the contract every supported application must meet — and hold the line on them.
Set the bar for infrastructure-as-code, continuous-delivery hardening, and deployment safety across the supported estate.
Define the engineering work that flows from incidents and root-cause analyses into durable production change, and the architectural patterns (self-healing runbooks, graceful degradation, circuit breakers) that reduce repeat failure.

Drive blameless postmortem culture; ensure root-cause analyses produce engineering work, not just narrative.
Govern which patterns from production warrant durable engineering investment, against the error-budget regime.
Partner with the production operations team in the same pillar on which patterns from the field warrant engineering attention; partner with the agentic automation engineering team on which fixes become safe agent-assisted remediations, and on the confidence thresholds, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop boundaries that make those remediations safe in production.
Lead high-severity incident response as incident commander when escalation reaches this seat, and coach the team to handle the rest.

Ensure reliability practices comply with Lilly standards and applicable regulatory requirements, and engineer them so that audit evidence falls out of normal operation.
Promote secure operational practices, auditability, and validated-environment-friendly engineering as part of the standards the team holds.
Act as a trusted technical leader in regulated and validated environments.

Set the engineering bar through standards, expectations, and role modeling.
Mentor senior reliability engineers in the pillar; build the bench for sustained team growth and develop the next layer of principal engineers.
Influence engineering, product, and platform leaders through credibility and outcomes rather than authority.
- Contribute to the evolution of enterprise-wide reliability practices in partnership with the Senior Architect and peer technical leaders.