Site Reliability Engineer

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Details

Job Title

Site Reliability Engineer

Job Type

Full Time

Client Location

Seattle, WA

Work Arrangement

Onsite

Duration

Full Time

Pay Rate / Salary

$100-$120k/yr.

Job Summary

• Experienced Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager with experience in SRE, DevOps, and production operations, specializing in designing, deploying, and maintaining highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud services, with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and ARM templates, monitoring and observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Kusto Query Language (KQL), and application performance monitoring using AppDynamics.
• Proficient in centralized logging and incident investigation with Splunk, integrating Coverity SAST and Invicti DAST into CI/CD pipelines, and automating infrastructure provisioning and deployments using PowerShell, Bash, and Python.
• Strong background in incident management, root cause analysis (RCA), problem management, vulnerability remediation, and continuous reliability improvements.
• Experienced in leading and mentoring SRE teams, managing on-call operations, defining SLOs and SLAs, conducting blameless post mortems, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve system performance, operational efficiency, security, and platform resilience.

Key Responsibilities

Analyze and troubleshoot complex issues in production environments; document findings and resolutions in the knowledge base.

Triage, respond to, and resolve incidents and support tickets; escalate and collaborate with other teams as needed.

Conduct root cause analysis for service-impacting and recurring issues; follow an automation-first approach to detect and remediate problems.

Implement permanent fixes and improvements in collaboration with development and QA teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems and environments in Azure.

Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes for applications and infrastructure.

Develop reusable, versioned infrastructure and platform code to automate provisioning and deployments (Infrastructure as Code).

Design, implement, and operate observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions to measure application and platform health.

Proactively identify potential issues and implement preventive measures and capacity planning.

Maintain and update technical documentation, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge

base articles to improve team effectiveness.

Participate in on-call rotations and provide timely responses to urgent support requests to meet agreed SLAs.

Work closely with cross-functional teams (development, QA, DevOps, security, product) to ensure seamless application performance and delivery.

Contribute to team learning by sharing expertise, creating runbooks, and improving operational processes.

Implement and maintain cybersecurity controls: continuous vulnerability assessment, risk management, patching, and incident response readiness.

Required Qualifications

10+ years of SRE, DevOps, or production operations experience supporting large-scale cloud services (strong preference for Azure).

Deep hands-on experience with Terraform and ARM templates for infrastructure automation and lifecycle management.

Demonstrated expertise in monitoring and observability with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.

Proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL) for querying Log Analytics/Azure Monitor and building alerts/dashboards.

Proven experience with application performance monitoring using AppDynamics.

Strong background in centralized logging, search, and incident investigation using Splunk.

Experience integrating Coverity SAST and Invicti DAST (or equivalent SAST/DAST) into CI/CD pipelines and managing remediation workflows.

Proficient scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, or Python) and strong experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines.

Excellent incident management, RCA facilitation, runbook creation, and mentoring skills;

comfortable in on-call rotations and leading post mortems.