Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Robert Half is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to partner with DevOps and engineering teams on observability capabilities across Microsoft Azure. The role focuses on Azure, Kubernetes/AKS, monitoring, logging, alerting, production reliability, SRE practices, infrastructure automation, and troubleshooting complex production issues.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement a scalable observability strategy across Microsoft Azure and integrated third-party services
- Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, APM, and distributed tracing using Datadog, Dynatrace, or a comparable commercial observability platform
- Implement and optimize Azure-native monitoring solutions including Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Managed Prometheus, and Azure Managed Grafana
- Monitor and improve the reliability and performance of Kubernetes/AKS environments
- Improve visibility across applications, infrastructure, containers, databases, and Azure services
- Identify monitoring gaps, reduce alert noise, and improve root-cause analysis
- Partner with DevOps and application development teams to improve production reliability and incident response
- Establish and improve SRE practices including SLOs, SLIs, alerting, incident management, and reliability engineering
- Support infrastructure automation and deployment through Terraform and GitHub Actions
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across Azure environments
Skills
- 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience
- Strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering background
- Kubernetes experience is required, preferably extensive hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Hands-on experience with a commercial observability platform such as Datadog or Dynatrace
- Strong experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights
- Experience with Prometheus and Grafana in Kubernetes/cloud environments
- Experience building and managing metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, alerting, and APM solutions
- Hands-on experience with Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Experience with GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of production reliability, incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis
- Experience supporting highly available production systems
- Familiarity with Azure services including AKS, Azure Service Bus, Front Door, Application Gateway, VMSS, Key Vault, App Configuration, and Azure Functions
- Experience with cloud-native relational database technologies, preferably PostgreSQL in Azure
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field preferred
Benefits
- 100% Remote
- Benefits available to contract/temporary professionals include medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance.
- Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan.
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