SRE-Azure Global Industrial

The Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for improving the reliability availability scalability performance and operational excellence of enterprise applications and platforms hosted within Microsoft Azure. This role combines software engineering cloud infrastructure automation and DevOps practices to build and support resilient cloud-native solutions while reducing operational toil through automation.

The Azure SRE leverages Azure platform services Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and observability tools to ensure mission-critical systems remain highly available secure and performant. This role partners closely with application development cloud engineering architecture and cybersecurity teams to drive continuous improvement accelerate cloud adoption and maintain service reliability through proactive monitoring incident management and operational engineering.

JOB DUTIES

• Monitor analyze and optimize system performance availability and reliability across Azure-hosted platforms and applications.
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs) Service Level Objectives (SLOs) Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Error Budgets.
• Drive continuous service improvement through operational metrics trend analysis reliability engineering practices and platform modernization efforts.
• Partner with development teams to improve service reliability through testing release validation deployment automation and production readiness reviews.
• Design build and support Azure infrastructure and platform services including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Azure Networking App Services and Storage
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions utilizing Terraform and Azure-native deployment technologies.
• Lead and support incident response root cause analysis (RCA) post-incident reviews and service restoration efforts.
• Automate operational processes platform provisioning deployments and remediation activities to reduce manual effort (TOIL) and improve reliability.
• Identify investigate and mitigate performance security networking and availability issues including traffic anomalies and service disruptions.
• Participate in on-call rotations and maintain operational documentation runbooks and knowledge articles as needed.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Typically requires a bachelors degree and five (5) to seven (7) years of experience in a technology and/or software engineering role or an equivalent combination.
• Experience supporting large-scale highly available distributed applications and cloud platforms.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS ABILITIES

• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles including SLIs SLOs Error Budgets Incident Management Root Cause Analysis and Operational Excellence.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services including infrastructure networking security platform services and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience administering and supporting Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Kubernetes clusters containers and scalable distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform ARM Templates) and Git-based deployment practices.
• Experience with Azure DevOps GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines release automation and DevOps methodologies.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure operating systems databases networking and security domains.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms including Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights Grafana Datadog and Dynatrace.
• Knowledge of microservices APIs distributed architectures and cloud-native design patterns.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server Linux networking DNS load balancing firewalls and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Experience with capacity planning performance engineering scalability testing disaster recovery and business continuity practices.
• Strong analytical problem-solving communication and collaboration skills.

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BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: No

COMPANY INFORMATION: Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage 401(k) tuition reimbursement vacation sick and holiday pay.

DISCLAIMER: This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time.

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