SRE Engineer

Position Title: SRE Engineer – Azure, DevOps & Kubernetes

Location: Alpharetta, GA

Years of Exp.: 8-10 Years

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure high availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of applications and infrastructure hosted on Azure.
• Manage, operate, and troubleshoot Kubernetes environments, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.
• Implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, ARM templates, Bicep, PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics for production services.
• Set up and manage observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, or similar tools.
• Participate in incident response, production support, on-call rotation, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop runbooks, playbooks, automation scripts, and self-healing mechanisms to reduce manual effort and improve MTTR.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, security, infrastructure, and application teams to improve platform reliability and deployment maturity.
• Implement security best practices across Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, access control, and network policies.

 Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services, including AKS, Azure Monitor, Azure DevOps, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure Key Vault, Azure AD, and Load Balancers.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, ingress controllers, service discovery, scaling, troubleshooting, and cluster operations.
• Good understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, Git workflows, branching strategies, release management, deployment automation, and rollback strategies.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.
• Strong Linux administration, shell scripting, troubleshooting, log analysis, and performance tuning skills.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, incident management, RCA, and operational dashboards.
• Knowledge of networking concepts including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, SSL/TLS, VNet, subnetting, routing, and Kubernetes networking.
• Experience with ITSM and incident management tools such as ServiceNow, Jira, PagerDuty, or Opsgenie.
• Ability to automate repetitive operational tasks using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Azure CLI.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to provide clear incident updates, technical documentation, and stakeholder coordination.

Experience & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Operations.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Azure cloud services and production Kubernetes environments.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale applications in production with defined SLAs/SLOs.