SRE at Virtusa
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Jun 28, 2026
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Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on SRE role centered on building and maintaining observability infrastructure using Datadog — covering metrics, logs, traces, APM, dashboards, SLOs, and alerting. The work involves reducing operational noise, supporting incident response workflows, onboarding services to monitoring standards, and automating observability configuration via Pulumi and CI/CD pipelines. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable collaborating across application, infrastructure, and cloud teams.
Senior level · Hyderabad, India · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980).
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Why we read it this way (9)
This role is based in Hyderabad, India — US benchmark compensation and candidate-pool data will not apply.
The posting carries no explicit seniority level in the title ('SRE'), but the scope — leading observability strategy, partnering across platform and application teams, driving production readiness — supports a Senior classification. The internal framing 'SRE/Lead' reinforces this.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships observability automation code (Pulumi, CI/CD) pointing to Software Developers (15-1252), but a meaningful portion of the work is operating and maintaining monitoring infrastructure, which overlaps with Systems Administrators (15-1244).
Pulumi and CI/CD are listed as explicit responsibilities in the key duties section and are treated as hard requirements given the automation-focused framing of the role.
AWS is listed as an integration target in the responsibilities section alongside other enterprise tools; it is treated as a hard requirement given the cloud-platform scope of the role.
Slack/Microsoft Teams are listed together as interchangeable integration targets; Slack is the primary name with Teams as an alternative.
Cursor and Claude are cited as examples of AI-assisted engineering tools; Cursor is listed first with Claude as an alternative. These appear in the responsibilities narrative and are marked preferred.
No compensation range, degree requirement, or total years of experience are stated in the posting.
This role's work location reads as outside the US — the candidate pool, comp, and contention benchmarks here are US-only (BLS employment, Adzuna/USAJOBS demand, and certified H-1B wages), so treat them as a rough US reference, not a local market.
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