Azure Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description:

Seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer to join our team. This remote role is crucial in maintaining and improving the reliability of our cloud-based applications and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Azure, DevOps, application support, and cloud migration projects.

Responsibilities:

• Utilize Azure performance, logging, and monitoring toolsets for troubleshooting.
• Support and maintain a distributed and heterogeneous computing environment (ZOS, UNIX, Windows).
• Manage and work with relational and hierarchical databases (Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Build and support robust, scalable infrastructure architectures.
• Implement release management practices using DevOps tools such as Bitbucket, Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, TeamCity, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, HashiStack (Terraform, Vault, Consul), CloudFormation, ELK, Prometheus, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace.
• Work under a DevOps culture, supporting applications using continuous integration and deployment techniques.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences at various levels within the organization.
• Mentor and coach junior team members, fostering a collaborative and educational environment.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Azure, with certification to associate or professional level being an advantage.
• 2+ years of experience as a DevOps/Cloud Engineer, SRE, Application Support, or Monitoring Team member.
• 2+ years of experience using Azure performance, logging, and monitoring toolsets for troubleshooting.
• 3+ years of experience in a distributed and heterogeneous computing environment (ZOS, UNIX, Windows).
• 3+ years of experience working with relational and/or hierarchical databases (Oracle, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.).
• Experience with modern software application technologies and building/supporting scalable infrastructure architectures.
• 2+ years of experience in release management practices using DevOps tools (Bitbucket, Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, TeamCity, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, HashiStack, CloudFormation, ELK, Prometheus, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace).
• Experience working under a DevOps culture and supporting applications using continuous integration and deployment techniques.
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, and time management skills.
• Strong work ethic and responsiveness to internal and external customers and contacts.
• Ability to mentor and coach team members.

Must Have:

• Experience in cloud migration projects.
• SRE support engineer experience.
• 2+ years of Java or .NET microservices coding background.
• Azure Developer or any other Azure certification.
• Experience in an operations role supporting applications on Azure.