SRM Digital LLCRemote
Site Reliability Engineer ( Azure/AKS)
United States of America
Full Time
2 hours ago
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Key skills
Site Reliability EngineeringMicrosoft AzureAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Infrastructure as CodeTerraformBicepPythonGoPowerShellAzure MonitorLog AnalyticsApplication InsightsService Level Objectives (SLOs)Service Level Indicators (SLIs)Error BudgetsAzure NetworkingAzure DevOpsCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)ITIL v4 FoundationIncident ManagementAnalyticsAzureKubernetesAKSLogic AppsGrafanaServiceNowFirewall
About this role
SRM Digital LLC is seeking a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure and AKS to drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across enterprise-scale platforms. The role focuses on designing resilient cloud architectures, implementing observability frameworks, and ensuring high availability of mission-critical services.
Responsibilities:
- Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets across Tier-0/Tier-1 services
- Lead architecture reviews ensuring high availability, RTO/RPO compliance
- Implement chaos engineering practices using Azure Chaos Studio
- Design and validate Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies and conduct regular DR drills
- Act as Incident Commander for critical incidents (P1/P2)
- Manage end-to-end incident lifecycle and lead Post-Incident Reviews (PIRs)
- Support global on-call rotations with strict response SLAs
- Promote blameless post-mortem culture and drive remediation actions
- Design and manage enterprise observability platforms using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Grafana
- Build alerting and incident integrations with PagerDuty and ServiceNow
- Develop automation, runbooks, and self-healing solutions using Azure Automation, Logic Apps, and scripting
- Embed reliability practices into Azure DevOps pipelines (performance testing, canary/blue-green deployments)
- Manage and optimize AKS clusters across regions, including scaling, upgrades, and security hardening
- Enforce infrastructure standards via Terraform/Bicep code reviews
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure within large-scale enterprise environments
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in a primary engineering role
- Expert-level experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster lifecycle, RBAC, network policies, autoscaling, and security standards
- Strong proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform required; Bicep preferred) and Azure Landing Zone architectures
- Programming/scripting expertise in Python (preferred), Go, or PowerShell
- Hands-on experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights for enterprise observability
- Proven experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets
- Strong understanding of Azure networking (Hub-Spoke, Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, NSGs, Private Endpoints, DNS)
- AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- ITIL v4 Foundation