DevSecOps Site Reliability Engineer

System Automation Corporation is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their platform team and help evolve the infrastructure, observability, and security posture of their Azure-based SaaS platform. The role involves collaborating with product engineers and technical leadership to build secure, scalable, and maintainable systems while fostering a strong DevOps culture.

Responsibilities:

• Design and evolve Azure platform infrastructure with a focus on scalability, reliability, and growth readiness
• Participate in capacity planning to support growth, peak demand, and seasonal usage patterns
• Integrate with development resources to implement infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Bicep)
• Troubleshoot production infrastructure issues and lead incident response efforts, including coordination, escalation, and real-time remediation across teams
• Conduct post-incident reviews (postmortems) focused on root cause analysis, corrective actions, and long-term reliability improvements rather than blame
• Monitor and operate production systems using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Sentinel, and related observability tooling
• Improve system reliability and performance through alerting, error monitoring, SLOs/SLAs, and analysis of performance and capacity trends
• Collaborate with security analyst to define and implement security controls across Azure resources and pipelines
• Manage secrets, certificates, and identity integrations
• Automate security posture checks in CI/CD pipelines
• Maintain policy-as-code using Azure Blueprints or Defender for Cloud
• Act as a key team member in the authorization and enablement of access to secured resources
• Support SOC 2 Type II compliance through tooling, automation, and audit readiness
• Respond to evidence requests and generate reports from observability and security systems
• Contribute to the documentation of platform controls and best practices
• Support, maintain, and own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent)
• Optimize build, test, and release flows, partnering with engineers to diagnose failures and improve deployment reliability
• Define and maintain consistent environment standards across development, staging, and production to ensure deployment safety, reliability, and compliance
• Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment promotion strategies, rollback mechanisms, and release safety practices

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure
• Strong experience in Microsoft Azure, including identity, networking, and monitoring. Specifically needs to have demonstrated experience using and optimizing platform as a service technologies in Azure with an understanding of consumption limitations
• Hands-on experience in DevOps and SRE
• Familiarity with SOC 2 or other compliance frameworks (HIPAA, FedRAMP a plus) as well as how these are implemented and maintained in Azure
• Proficient with scripting or automation (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.)
• Strong collaboration and documentation habits
• Ability to quickly identify and create necessary Azure resources/scripts in support of ongoing operations needs
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for cost management
• Experience with Terraform/Bicep, GitHub Actions
• Exposure to low-code or microservice platforms
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to optimize work output
• Certifications such as Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-400, AZ-500) a plus