Title: Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite)
Duration: Full-time
Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000 per year
Job Description:
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
" 8 years of SRE, DevOps, or production operations experience supporting large-scale cloud services (strong preference for Azure).
" Deep hands-on experience with Terraform and ARM templates for infrastructure automation and lifecycle management.
" Demonstrated expertise in monitoring and observability with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.
" Proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL) for querying Log Analytics/Azure Monitor and building alerts/dashboards.
" Proven experience with application performance monitoring using AppDynamics.
" Strong background in centralized logging, search, and incident investigation using Splunk.
" Experience integrating Coverity SAST and Invicti DAST (or equivalent SAST/DAST) into CI/CD pipelines and managing remediation workflows.
" Proficient scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, or Python) and strong experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines.
" Excellent incident management, RCA facilitation, runbook creation, and mentoring skills; comfortable in on-call rotations and leading postmortems.
Roles & Responsibilities:
" Analyze and troubleshoot complex issues in production environments; document findings and resolutions in the knowledge base.
" Triage, respond to, and resolve incidents and support tickets; escalate and collaborate with other teams as needed.
" Conduct root cause analysis for service-impacting and recurring issues; follow an automation-first approach to detect and remediate problems.
" Implement permanent fixes and improvements in collaboration with development and QA teams.
" Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance systems and environments in Azure.
" Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes for applications and infrastructure.
" Develop reusable, versioned infrastructure and platform code to automate provisioning and deployments (Infrastructure as Code).
" Design, implement, and operate observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions to measure application and platform health.
" Proactively identify potential issues and implement preventive measures and capacity planning.
" Maintain and update technical documentation, runbooks, troubleshooting guides, and knowledge base articles to improve team effectiveness.
" Participate in on-call rotations and provide timely responses to urgent support requests to meet agreed SLAs.
" Work closely with cross-functional teams (development, QA, DevOps, security, product) to ensure seamless application performance and delivery.
" Contribute to team learning by sharing expertise, creating runbooks, and improving operational processes.
" Implement and maintain cybersecurity controls: continuous vulnerability assessment, risk management, patching, and incident response readiness.
Generic Managerial Skills
" Lead and mentor SRE teams, setting priorities, conducting performance reviews, and developing career paths.
" Coordinate incident response and stakeholder communication, driving blameless postmortems and fast, data-driven recovery.
" Align reliability initiatives with business goals through SLO/SLA management, capacity planning, and budget oversight.
" Define and improve operational processes, tooling choices, and vendor relationships to reduce toil and increase platform resilience.
