Senior Site Reliability Engineer I careem

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer under Infra FinOps, you will design, build, and operate systems that ensure accurate visibility into cloud costs and enable optimization opportunities across Careem s platform.

What you'll do

• Own, design, and maintain the internal FinOps tooling used for AWS cost monitoring, forecasting, and reporting.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to provide cost visibility and governance mechanisms, ensuring alignment with AWS budgets.
• Design, build, and maintain an anomaly detection mechanism to identify unusual cost patterns early and ensure we only pay for what we use.
• Automate data collection pipelines and cost analytics workflows using tools like Athena, Glue, QuickSight, and S3.
• Continuously enhance cost monitoring dashboards and improve data reliability and coverage.
• Partner with internal teams to enforce governance and budgeting policies through automation and alerts.
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain reliability of FinOps tools and systems.

What you ll need

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering, ideally with exposure to FinOps or cloud cost management.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services, pricing models, and cost optimization strategies.
• Solid understanding of data pipelines, ETL, and dashboarding tools (Athena, QuickSight, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Athena, Glue, QuickSight, and S3 for cost data analysis and visualization.
• Good understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals how clusters, workloads, and scaling behaviors impact cost and resource utilization.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash preferred).
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) and monitoring/alerting systems.
• Solid problem-solving and analytical skills with the ability to connect technical metrics to financial impact.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills to partner across engineering and finance teams.
• Knowledge of FinOps principles, tagging strategies, and budgeting best practices is a plus.