Senior Site Reliability Engineer AI-Driven Cloud Reliability

Job Description

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to independently own, modernize, and strengthen cloud-native reliability across enterprise platforms.

This role requires deep hands-on expertise in SRE, DevOps, Azure cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, DevSecOps, observability, automation, and AI-assisted engineering practices.

The ideal candidate will be a senior independent contributor who can drive reliability strategy, improve production stability, reduce operational toil, strengthen deployment practices, and responsibly use AI to accelerate platform engineering and incident management workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and drive SRE practices across cloud-native platforms, infrastructure and applications.
• Lead production readiness reviews, reliability assessments, architecture reviews and operational risk evaluations.
• Troubleshoot complex production and non-production issues across infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, cloud platforms, networking and application performance.
• Improve system availability, scalability, resilience, latency and recovery through automation, proactive monitoring and self-healing solutions.
• Provide guidance to engineering, platform and cloud teams on SRE, DevOps and reliability best practices.
• Drive proactive DevSecOps adoption and integrate security practices throughout the development and operations lifecycle

**Site Reliability Engineering & Strategy**

• Own and drive SRE practices across cloud-native platforms, infrastructure, and applications.
• Define reliability standards, SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, post-mortems, SOPs, and incident response workflows.
• Lead production readiness, reliability reviews, architecture reviews, and operational risk assessments.
• Troubleshoot complex production, infrastructure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud, networking, and performance issues.
• Improve availability, scalability, latency, resilience, and recovery through automation, proactive engineering, and self-healing practices.
• Guide engineering, platform, and cloud teams on modern SRE, DevOps, and reliability practices.

Cloud Platform, IaC & Automation

• Design and optimize secure, scalable, highly available, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure.
• Build and govern IaC using Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or equivalent tools.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with ARM/Bicep.
• Automate operational tasks using PowerShell and Azure CLI; experience with Python, Bash, or Go is preferred.
• Build reusable automation frameworks, IaC modules, deployment templates, runbooks, and platform standards.
• Review infrastructure, IAM, cloud, network, Kubernetes, and pipeline configurations for reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Build self-service capabilities and internal developer platform practices to improve engineering velocity.

**CI/CD, Containers & Release Reliability**

• Architect and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, or similar tools.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with Azure DevOps.
• Design reliable release strategies with mandatory hands-on experience in blue-green deployments, along with canary, rolling, feature flags, and rollback automation.
• Lead containerization and orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Azure Container Apps, AKS, EKS, or GKE.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with Azure Container Apps.
• Improve deployment reliability, release governance, lead time, change failure rate, and recovery time.

DevSecOps & Secure Engineering

• Integrate security into CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, containers, Kubernetes, and release workflows.
• Implement SAST/DAST, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, policy enforcement, and compliance automation.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with SonarQube administration and upgrades, including plugin management, quality gates, and version upgrades.
• Govern IAM, Azure network security, Key Vault, certificates, firewalls, audit readiness, and policy compliance.
• Identify and remediate infrastructure, Kubernetes, IAM, and pipeline security risks.

**Observability & Incident Response**

• Design observability solutions covering metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts, SLIs, SLOs, and incident workflows.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with **Splunk, New Rel…