SRE Engineer

Hi,

We are looking for a SRE Engineer @ Remote. Kindly send me your updated profile and I am looking forward to work with you in this position.

Job Title: SRE Engineer

Location: Remote (but need to travel based on request)

Duration: Long term contract

Reporting Line: Cloud and Infrastructure Lead

Key Skills:

• Full stack SRE
• Coding
• AI platform built
• AI partners
• API gateways
• Infrastructure
• Code base-quality
• High caliber
• Manage of core ai platform
• Assets built on it

Job Description:

• Client is expanding it s Global business in 2026 and the Cloud and Infrastructure team will need to support this growth by designing, provisioning then supporting the platforms to enable this.
• We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Cloud & Infrastructure team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, operating, automating, and continuously improving enterprise-scale Azure platforms, ensuring high availability, resiliency, security, and performance.
• The role combines software engineering, cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, AI, and operational excellence to improve service reliability and reduce operational overhead through automation and engineering best practices.
• The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Microsoft Azure, DevOps tools & practices, Terraform, API, AI platforms & tools, disaster recovery planning, and enterprise-scale resilience engineering.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Reliability & Operations

• Ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of Azure-hosted services.
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets.
• Proactively monitor platform health and performance using observability tooling.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes for recurring incidents.
• Participate in incident management and on-call support rotations where required.
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews, capture lessons learned, and drive corrective actions through to completion.
• Reduce operational toil by identifying repetitive manual tasks and replacing them with automated, reusable engineering solutions.
• Develop reliability dashboards and actionable alerts that focus on customer-impacting symptoms rather than infrastructure noise.

Azure Cloud Engineering

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure services including:
• Virtual Networks
• Application Gateways
• API Management
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Firewall
• Azure Storage
• Key Vault
• Azure Monitor
• Azure AI Services
• Implement cloud platform standards and best practices.
• Support multi-region Azure deployments and platform modernisation initiatives.
• Undertake capacity planning and performance engineering to ensure platforms can scale reliably in line with business growth and peak demand.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• Develop and maintain Terraform modules and reusable infrastructure patterns.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards and governance controls.
• Ensure infrastructure is version controlled, peer-reviewed, and fully automated.
• Manage Terraform state securely and consistently across environments.

DevOps, Automation & AI

• Build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application deployments using pipelines with automated delivery and testing routines.
• Implement testing, security scanning, policy compliance, and release gates.
• Support DevOps and platform engineering practices.
• Create automation for operational runbooks, self-healing processes, deployment validation, and environment consistency checks.
• Manage and Implement AI platforms and tools such as Claude & Open AI, to develop skills and support business adoption of agentic AI capabilities.
• Implement and enable self-service approach to technology services.

Resilience, Disaster Recovery & Failover

• Design and implement highly available Azure architectures.
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.
• Implement and test:
• Regional failover strategies
• Active/Passive architectures
• Active/Active deployments
• Traffic Manager and Front Door failover patterns
• Database resiliency and replication
• Backup and recovery solutions
• Conduct regular resilience and recovery testing exercises.
• Identify and reduce single points of failure across platforms.
• Define and execute game days, chaos testing, and controlled failure scenarios to validate operational resilience.

Security & Governance

• Ensure platforms are secure-by-design.
• Work closely with Security and Architecture teams to implement:
• Zero Trust principles
• RBAC controls / Managed Identities
• Network segmentation and Zone based architecture
• Secrets management
• Support compliance requirements and operational audits.
• Help coordinate security updates, patches, maintenance routines, and upgrades of the underlying system across partners and vendors
• Embed reliability, security, and compliance controls into build and release pipelines to support production readiness.

Continuous Improvement

• Drive automation and reduction of manual operational tasks.
• Improve deployment reliability and platform observability.
• Contribute to architecture standards, runbooks, and operational documentation.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and service teams to define production readiness standards and reliability acceptance criteria.

About You

At Client we work in a fast paces evolving environment with a growth mindset and outcome focus.

Core Skills & Experience

• Microsoft Azure Expert
• Azure Administration and Architecture
• Networking and Connectivity
• Virtual Machines and Platform Services
• Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Azure Identity and Access Management
• Azure Networking, NSGs, Firewalls, Load Balancing
• Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery
• Strong expertise in Azure networking (VNets, routing, firewalls, private links, load balancing).
• Hands-on proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployments. (Must have Terraform and Git Enterprise, orchestration engines)
• Exposure and understanding of building, deploying and managing API Gateways
• Strong understanding of Azure security controls, governance, and compliance frameworks.
• Full stack observability e.g. MELTS principles golden signals, and automation response using DataDog, New Relic, Splunk or other leading tools.
• Strong FinOps expertise
• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python, React).
• Strong understanding of Devops practices, tooling, and SDLC methods
• Strong exposure to Anthropic, Open AI, platforms and associated tools & practices e.g Harness, Token usage, Skills, LLM and SLM concepts, Orchestration engines, and agent cost management.
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles, including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, reliability targets, and service health measurement.
• Experience designing observability strategies across metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational telemetry.
• Ability to define actionable alerts that identify customer-impacting symptoms, reduce noise, and support rapid incident triage.
• Proven capability in incident response, root cause analysis, blameless post-incident reviews, corrective action tracking, and operational learning.
• Experience reducing toil through automation, self-service tooling, runbook automation, self-healing patterns, and repeatable engineering solutions.
• Strong knowledge of capacity planning, performance engineering, load testing, scalability modelling, saturation analysis, and demand forecasting.
• Experience with resilience validation techniques including chaos engineering, game days, failover testing, disaster recovery exercises, and operational readiness testing.
• Ability to establish production readiness standards, reliability acceptance criteria, operational runbooks, service ownership models, and support handover practices.
• Working knowledge of deployment reliability practices such as canary releases, blue-green deployments, rollback strategies, feature flags, and release health monitoring.

Thanks & Regards

Saravanan

DMinds Solutions Inc.