SITE RELIABILITY · PLATFORM ENGINEERING · CLOUD OPERATIONS

Hire SRE & Platform Engineers Who Make Production More Dependable.

Build reliable, observable and scalable production environments with engineers specializing in site reliability, internal developer platforms, cloud infrastructure and operational automation.

From improving service reliability to building self-service engineering platforms, extend your team with India-based SRE and platform engineering talent.

◎ SLOs & Reliability
↗ Platform Automation
◇ Observability
⬡ Cloud & Kubernetes
KUBERNETES TERRAFORM PROMETHEUS GRAFANA OPENTELEMETRY BACKSTAGE
FROM OPERATIONS TO ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE

Reliable systems. Productive engineering teams.

Modern engineering organizations need more than infrastructure that stays online. They need measurable reliability, faster recovery, repeatable deployments and platforms that simplify software delivery.

Site Reliability Engineering focuses on keeping production services dependable through reliability objectives, automation, observability and incident practices.

Platform Engineering creates reusable infrastructure and self-service capabilities that help development teams deliver software without repeatedly solving the same operational problems.

01 Measure Define service health
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02 Engineer Build reliable systems
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03 Automate Reduce manual work
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04 Operate Observe and respond
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05 Improve Continuously optimize
SRE
SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERS YOU CAN HIRE

Specialized engineers for modern production platforms.

Select the expertise that matches your service architecture, infrastructure maturity, operational priorities and developer workflows.

01

Site Reliability Engineers

Improve service availability, operational resilience and incident response using measurable reliability practices.

  • SLIs, SLOs & error budgets
  • Incident response & runbooks
  • Capacity & resilience planning
  • Toil reduction & automation
02

Platform Engineers

Build standardized internal platforms that make application deployment and infrastructure access easier.

  • Internal developer platforms
  • Backstage & developer portals
  • Golden paths & templates
  • Self-service infrastructure
03

Observability Engineers

Connect metrics, logs, traces and service telemetry to improve production visibility and diagnosis.

  • Prometheus & Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry instrumentation
  • Distributed tracing
  • Alerting & dashboards
04

Kubernetes Reliability Engineers

Improve cluster operations, workload resilience, scheduling and container platform stability.

  • EKS, AKS & GKE
  • Workload health & scaling
  • Cluster observability
  • Upgrade & recovery planning
05

Infrastructure Automation Engineers

Standardize infrastructure provisioning, configuration and environment management through infrastructure as code.

  • Terraform & OpenTofu
  • Ansible & configuration
  • Automated provisioning
  • Infrastructure governance
06

Release Reliability Engineers

Improve deployment safety with automated validation, progressive delivery and rollback practices.

  • CI/CD engineering
  • Canary & blue-green releases
  • Argo CD & GitOps
  • Deployment health checks
07

Platform Security Engineers

Integrate security controls into infrastructure, deployment workflows and shared platform services.

  • Identity & access controls
  • Policy as code
  • Secrets management
  • Supply-chain security
SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERING ARCHITECTURE

One connected foundation. From infrastructure to reliable applications.

Connect cloud infrastructure, platform services, developer workflows and production operations into a repeatable engineering model.

RELIABLE CLOUD-NATIVE ENGINEERING PLATFORM
DEVELOP · DEPLOY · OBSERVE · IMPROVE
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BUSINESS APPLICATIONS

Production Services & Workloads

APIs, microservices, applications, background workers and critical services.

APPLICATIONS
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DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE

Internal Developer Platform

Developer portal, service catalog, golden paths and self-service workflows.

PLATFORM
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DELIVERY AUTOMATION

CI/CD, GitOps & Release Controls

Build pipelines, infrastructure automation, deployment validation and rollbacks.

DELIVERY
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RUNTIME PLATFORM

Kubernetes & Shared Services

Compute, networking, service discovery, storage, secrets and autoscaling.

RUNTIME
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INFRASTRUCTURE FOUNDATION

Cloud, Networking & Infrastructure as Code

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, hybrid environments and automated infrastructure provisioning.

FOUNDATION
SLIs / SLOs• OBSERVABILITY• INCIDENT MANAGEMENT• SECURITY• COST & CAPACITY
SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS

Engineering support for the challenges behind production.

Explore six common initiatives where specialist SRE and platform engineers can support your organization.

MEASURABLE PRODUCTION RELIABILITY

Define reliability objectives and engineer toward them.

Establish service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets and operating practices that connect technical reliability with business needs.

SLIs & SLOs Error Budgets Capacity Planning Load Testing Resilience Engineering Reliability Reviews
PRODUCTION ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES

Reliability is engineered. Not assumed.

These six disciplines provide a practical foundation for operating modern cloud-native applications.

01 RELIABILITY OBJECTIVES

SLIs, SLOs & Error Budgets

Define meaningful reliability targets and use them to guide operational decisions.

02 PRODUCTION VISIBILITY

Observability by Design

Collect and correlate telemetry across applications, infrastructure and shared services.

03 OPERATIONAL RESPONSE

Incident Readiness

Establish alerts, escalation paths, runbooks and post-incident improvement practices.

04 ENGINEERING AUTOMATION

Toil Reduction

Identify repetitive manual work and replace suitable tasks with tested automation.

05 RESILIENCE

Failure & Recovery Engineering

Plan for failure scenarios, capacity limits, backup recovery and dependency disruptions.

06 DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY

Platform Standardization

Create repeatable engineering workflows with shared platform capabilities.

SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY STACK

Tools for reliable operations. Platforms for faster engineering.

Match engineers to your existing infrastructure and observability stack rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all toolchain.

SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERING STACK
RELIABILITY · AUTOMATION · DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE
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Cloud & Compute Infrastructure and orchestration
AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Kubernetes EKS / AKS / GKE Docker
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Observability Metrics, logs, traces and telemetry
Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Loki Jaeger Datadog
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Infrastructure Automation Provisioning and configuration
Terraform OpenTofu Ansible Crossplane Pulumi Helm
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CI/CD & GitOps Release and deployment workflows
GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Argo CD Flux Argo Rollouts
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Incident & Reliability Response, testing and resilience
PagerDuty Opsgenie Alertmanager k6 LitmusChaos Velero
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Platform & Security Developer enablement and guardrails
Backstage Crossplane Kyverno OPA Vault Trivy
SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERING TALENT IN INDIA

Extend your engineering capability. Retain control of your production systems.

Add the right mix of reliability and platform engineering skills around your existing organization.

01 SPECIALIST CAPABILITY

Reliability-Focused Talent

Align engineers to your service architecture, production risks and operational objectives.

02 ENGINEERING INTEGRATION

Existing Team Alignment

Integrate with your repositories, incident workflows, monitoring and deployment processes.

03 PLATFORM FLEXIBILITY

Cloud-Native Expertise

Support AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and suitable hybrid environments.

04 TEAM FLEXIBILITY

Specialists or Dedicated Teams

Add individual engineering specialists or a coordinated team for ongoing initiatives.

HOW TO HIRE SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERS

Understand your operating model. Hire for the engineering work ahead.

A structured process helps align technical skills with production responsibilities and team workflows.

01 DISCOVER

Share Requirements

Review your services, infrastructure and reliability priorities.

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02 MATCH

Review Profiles

Identify relevant SRE and platform engineering experience.

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03 ASSESS

Interview Engineers

Evaluate troubleshooting, automation and architecture skills.

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04 ONBOARD

Integrate the Team

Align access, security, workflows and responsibilities.

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05 DELIVER

Engineer & Improve

Execute platform and reliability priorities with ongoing reviews.

FLEXIBLE ENGINEERING ENGAGEMENTS

One specialist. Or a dedicated reliability and platform team.

01 / STAFF AUGMENTATION DEDICATED SPECIALIST

Hire an SRE or Platform Engineer

Add specialized reliability or platform engineering capacity to an existing team.

DELIVERY Client Led
TEAM 1+ Engineers
  • Dedicated engineering capacity
  • Existing workflow integration
  • Client-defined priorities
  • Focused technical responsibilities
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03 / PROJECT DELIVERY DEFINED ENGINEERING INITIATIVE

SRE / Platform Project Team

Engage a delivery team for observability implementation, platform development or reliability improvements.

DELIVERY Dawn Led
TEAM Project-Based
  • Assessment and architecture
  • Implementation and automation
  • Operational documentation
  • Knowledge transfer and handover
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WHY DAWN FOR SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERING?

Reliability engineering backed by broader technology capabilities.

Production reliability involves more than monitoring dashboards. It connects architecture, cloud, automation, testing, security and software delivery.

Dawn's wider engineering capabilities can complement specialist SRE and platform engagements when initiatives span multiple technology disciplines.

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Cloud Engineering

Infrastructure and cloud-native architecture.

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DevOps Automation

CI/CD, infrastructure as code and deployment workflows.

03

Kubernetes Engineering

Cluster operations, scaling and resilience.

04

Quality Engineering

Performance testing and release validation.

05

Security Integration

Identity, platform policies and secure workflows.

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India-Based Delivery

Offshore engineering support for global product teams.

BUILD YOUR RELIABILITY & PLATFORM TEAM

Need More Reliable Systems? Let's Engineer the Platform Behind Them.

Share your production environment, reliability challenges and platform priorities. We'll discuss the engineering skills suited to your needs.

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SRE & PLATFORM ENGINEERING FAQs

Questions before building your engineering team.

Common questions about roles, technologies, responsibilities, engagement models and costs.

01 What does a Site Reliability Engineer do? +

An SRE applies software engineering practices to production operations. Typical responsibilities include reliability objectives, monitoring, incident response, automation, capacity planning and resilience.

02 What does a Platform Engineer do? +

A platform engineer builds and maintains shared infrastructure and developer-facing services, including deployment templates, internal developer platforms and self-service workflows.

03 What is the difference between SRE and Platform Engineering? +

SRE emphasizes production reliability, service objectives and operational resilience. Platform Engineering emphasizes reusable infrastructure, developer experience and self-service capabilities. The disciplines often overlap.

04 Can SRE engineers implement observability and monitoring? +

Yes. SRE and observability engineers can configure metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting and service-level indicators using suitable monitoring tools.

05 Can Platform Engineers build an internal developer platform? +

Yes. Platform engineers can design developer portals, service catalogs, golden paths, reusable infrastructure templates and automated self-service workflows.

06 Can SRE engineers support Kubernetes and cloud platforms? +

SRE responsibilities can include Kubernetes operations, cloud infrastructure, workload scaling, resilience, incident response and production monitoring.

07 Can SRE engineers help reduce production incidents? +

Engineers can improve monitoring, deployment controls, automation, incident response and recovery procedures. Results depend on system architecture, operational maturity and implementation scope.

08 Can I hire one engineer or a dedicated SRE / platform team? +

Both options can be discussed. Engagements may include an individual specialist, a coordinated engineering team or a project-based delivery model.

09 How much does it cost to hire SRE or Platform Engineers in India? +

Pricing depends on experience, technology specialization, production responsibilities, engagement duration and required support coverage. Contact Dawn to discuss the appropriate commercial model.