Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is recruiting for a contract Site Reliability Engineer to support cloud-based platforms. The role focuses on strengthening observability and operational resilience across Microsoft Azure environments by establishing monitoring standards, expanding telemetry coverage, and improving service reliability, troubleshooting, and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Create and advance an observability framework for Azure-hosted systems and integrated third-party platforms, ensuring scalable monitoring coverage
- Develop meaningful dashboards, alerting rules, log analysis views, and distributed tracing to provide actionable insight into application and infrastructure behavior
- Utilize Azure services such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Managed Prometheus, and Azure Managed Grafana to expand end-to-end visibility
- Work alongside DevOps and software engineering teams to strengthen platform stability, incident response readiness, and service performance
- Assess existing monitoring practices to uncover blind spots, reduce unnecessary alert volume, and support quicker root-cause identification
- Improve insight into the health of applications, infrastructure components, and dependent services across production environments
- Support reliability-focused engineering efforts by applying SRE principles such as service measurement, alert strategy refinement, and operational readiness improvements
Skills
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience working with Microsoft Azure in production environments
- Strong practical knowledge of observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, or comparable monitoring solutions
- Demonstrated experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Background using GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code practices
- Solid understanding of metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and reliability engineering for cloud-based systems
- Ability to independently lead observability initiatives from technical design through implementation and optimization
- Experience supporting live production systems, troubleshooting operational issues, and improving incident response processes
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related discipline
- All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Benefits
- Access to top jobs
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Free online training
- Robert Half app with 1-tap apply, notifications of AI-matched jobs, and more
- Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including 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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