SRE Azure Cloud

SRE Azure Cloud 12+ Years Experience Required

In person Interview is must

Location: Pleasanton, CA (Onsite)

Ideal Candidate: A hands-on Senior SRE with expertise in Stage/Production deployments, Azure-based microservices, observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, Azure Monitor), troubleshooting using Application Insights, database operations, and customer escalation management, focused on maintaining highly reliable and available production services.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, performance, and operational stability of customer-facing applications and services. This role is focused on Stage/Production deployments, Monitoring & Observability, Troubleshooting, Incident Management, and Customer Escalation support across Azure-based microservices environments.

The ideal candidate will possess strong experience in cloud operations, microservices, production support, deployment automation, observability platforms, and database troubleshooting, with a proven ability to rapidly diagnose and resolve complex production issues.

• Manage and support Stage and Production environments.
• Execute application, infrastructure, configuration, and database deployments.
• Validate releases, perform health checks, and coordinate rollback activities.
• Support change management and production readiness reviews.

• Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, and monitoring solutions.
• Monitor application, infrastructure, and database health using logs, metrics, traces, and telemetry.
• Improve observability coverage and reduce alert noise.
• Proactively identify reliability and performance issues before customer impact.

• Troubleshoot software, infrastructure, configuration, deployment, and database-related issues.
• Lead incident response activities and production recovery efforts.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive actions.
• Develop operational runbooks and troubleshooting documentation.

• Investigate and resolve customer-reported production issues.
• Act as a technical lead during high-priority incidents.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, and Customer Support teams to drive issue resolution.
• Provide timely communication and status updates during major incidents.

Cloud & Infrastructure:
Microsoft Azure, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Virtual Machines, App Services, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Application Gateway, Azure Key Vault

Microservices & Containerization:
Kubernetes, Docker, Helm Charts, Microservices Architecture, REST APIs, Event-Driven Architecture, Distributed Systems Troubleshooting

CI/CD & Dev Ops:
Azure Dev Ops Pipelines, Bitbucket, Git, Helm-based Deployments, CI/CD Release Management, Deployment Automation

Monitoring & Observability:
Grafana, Prometheus, Graylog, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Alerting & Dashboard Management, Distributed Tracing, SLI/SLO Monitoring

Troubleshooting Expertise:
Application Performance Issues, Production Incident Management, Configuration & Environment Issues, Deployment Failures & Rollbacks, Kubernetes & Container Troubleshooting, Network & Connectivity Issues, Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Databases:
Azure SQL / SQL Server, PostgreSQL / MySQL, Cosmos DB, Redis, Query Performance Tuning, Database Monitoring, Backup & Recovery

Automation & Scripting:
Power Shell, Python, Bash

• Supporting enterprise SaaS applications in Production environments.
• Azure-based microservices platforms running on AKS.
• Customer-facing production support and escalation management.
• 24x7 on-call and incident response environments.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices including SLIs, SLOs, MTTR, and service availability management.

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Production support and incident management expertise.
• Customer-first mindset.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Ability to perform effectively during critical outages and high-severity incidents.
• Continuous improvement and automation mindset.