Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Azure

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Azure

Location: Charlotte, NC / Jersey City, NJ / Plano, TX (Hybrid, onsite 3 days)

Duration: Contract - 11 months

Pay Range:

Charlotte NC - Pay Rate: $70.23

Jersey City NJ - Pay Rate: $73.67

Plano TX - Pay Rate: $73.67

Job ID: 411240

About BCforward

BCforward is a leading global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm providing services and support to Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers needs into a full-service business solutions provider. With delivery centers and offices across North America and India, we take pride in building long-term relationships and delivering excellence through innovation, collaboration, and integrity.

Job Description

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Azure to join our team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Azure-based SRE, infrastructure as code, observability, and CI/CD automation and a proven ability to improve reliability, reduce toil through automation, and enhance production readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Development and Infrastructure teams to implement monitoring and observability per designs from the SRE Lead.


• Mentor SRE resources on reliability practices and established tooling.


• Develop and maintain a reusable catalog of reliability scripts, tools, and libraries for instrumentation, automation, and operations.


• Partner with application and platform teams to adopt common reliability libraries and tools through code changes and guidance.


• Engage as a subject matter expert during major incident triage, failure scenario modeling, and problem management root cause analysis.


• Identify vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities by analyzing error rates and monitoring noise, proposing solutions to reduce manual effort and improve reliability.


• Participate in an on-call rotation with Production Support to inform reliability improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform services.


• Experience with Terraform or Terraform Enterprise, or comparable infrastructure-as-code tooling.


• Working knowledge of Azure networking: VNets, subnets, route tables, firewalls, DNS, private endpoints, and load balancing.


• Experience with observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, or Grafana.


• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.


• Scripting or programming with Python, PowerShell, or Bash.


• Understanding of cloud resiliency, high availability, logging, monitoring, and operational support practices.


• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, and communication skills with the ability to collaborate across global teams.

Preferred Skills:

• Microsoft Azure certification.


• Experience in financial services, regulated technology, or enterprise-scale environments.


• Experience with AKS, ACR, Kubernetes, container registries, or container-based deployment models.


• Experience with Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI/GenAI platform operations, model-serving observability, or AI platform readiness.


• Familiarity with SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, incident response, problem management, post-incident reviews, and toil reduction.


• Exposure to IAM, cloud security, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation, and governance dashboards.

Why BCforward?

At BCforward, we believe in advancing lives and careers. When you join our team, you gain access to:

• Competitive compensation and benefits


• Opportunities for growth with global clients


• A supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people


• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies and projects

Additional Details

• Three openings. Hybrid schedule with three onsite days per week. Candidate location must appear on resume. Candidate ID verification via Glider.


• Approved locations and differentials: Charlotte, NC (99.74), Jersey City, NJ (104.63), Plano, TX (104.63).


• Hours per day: 8. Labor type: Technical.

About Our Commitment

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Interested? Apply Now!

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, please apply with your most recent resume.