Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Position: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: Redmond WA (Onsite)

Duration: Fulltime

Job Description

• We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical Azure-based production platforms. This role requires a strong combination of cloud architecture, software engineering, platform operations, automation, observability, and AI-driven engineering practices.
• The ideal candidate is a smart, highly motivated engineer with 7-8 years of experience who has successfully taken cloud platforms from concept through production deployment and ongoing operations at enterprise scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and operate highly available, secure, and scalable Azure platforms.
• Architect production-grade cloud solutions leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Batch, Azure Storage, and Azure Data Explorer (Kusto).
• Create end-to-end system architecture, deployment topology, application flow, and network diagrams.
• Own platform reliability, scalability, security, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep and automate platform provisioning.
• Implement comprehensive observability solutions covering monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, alerting, dashboards, and incident response.
• Drive platform engineering best practices including CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.
• Develop production-quality tools, services, and automation using C#, PowerShell, and Bicep.
• Partner with development teams to improve platform reliability, performance, security, and developer productivity.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate solution development from rapid proof-of-concepts to enterprise-scale production deployments.

Required Technical Skills

• Azure Platform Expertise
• Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating:
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS/ACA)
• Azure App Services / Web Apps
• Azure SQL Database
• Azure Data Explorer (Kusto)
• Azure Batch
• Azure Storage Services
• Azure Networking
• Azure Entra ID
• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Infrastructure
• Architecture
• End-to-end system design
• Distributed systems architecture
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Network design and connectivity patterns
• Application and data flow modeling
• Production readiness reviews
• Infrastructure as Code
• Expert-level Bicep experience
• ARM templates (preferred)
• GitOps principles
• Observability
• Azure Monitor
• Application Insights
• Log Analytics
• Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Distributed tracing
• Incident detection and response
• Reliability engineering metrics
• Software Engineering
• Ability to write production-ready code in:
• C# or PowerShell
• Bicep

Experience with:

• APIs and microservices
• CI/CD pipelines
• Source control best practices
• Automated testing
• AI-Native Expectations
• The successful candidate must be a native AI adopter who routinely leverages:
• GitHub Copilot
• Azure AI services
• Agent-based workflows
• AI-assisted code generation
• AI-powered operational analysis

Must demonstrate the ability to:

• Rapidly develop POCs using AI tooling.
• Mature POCs into secure, scalable production services.
• Use AI to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting Tier-0 or Tier-1 business-critical services.
• Experience with SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.
• Exposure to enterprise platform engineering organizations.
• Experience leading technical execution across multiple engineering teams.
• Success Profile

We are looking for a high-energy engineer who can:

• Think architecturally.
• Build pragmatically.
• Automate relentlessly.
• Operate confidently in production.
• Use AI effectively to accelerate outcomes.
• Influence without authority and drive platform excellence across teams.