Lead Azure SRE for Cloud-Native Platforms

S I Systems; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

S I Systems seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to enhance Azure-based platforms and cloud-native apps in a financial services context. You will blend SRE and platform engineering to improve reliability, observability, and deploy automation across DEV/UAT/PROD.

Lead incident response, tuning metrics like SLOs/SLIs, and drive CI/CD improvements with GitHub Actions. On-site in Toronto, 4 days per week, with a focus on Azure services and production readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Operations, DevOps, or Production Support
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Container Apps, Azure Active Directory (Entra ID), Key Vault, Azure SQL, API Management (APIM), and Azure Functions
• Production support experience with incident response, troubleshooting, problem management, and operational support processes
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation using GitHub Actions or similar platforms
• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline

Responsibilities

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and support applications and developer platform services across DEV, UAT, and PROD environments
• Respond to incidents and lead triage activities to restore service and resolve issues
• Support deployments, release activities, change management, and CI/CD pipelines including GitHub Actions workflows
• Configure and support Azure platform components including Azure Container Apps, Key Vault, DNS, certificates, networking, and shared cloud services
• Investigate performance, reliability, and availability issues using Datadog, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics
• Support onboarding of new applications and teams to the developer platform
• Develop and maintain runbooks, support procedures, knowledge articles, and operational documentation

Skills

SRE

Platform engineering

Cloud operations

DevOps

Production support

Microsoft Azure

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

Education

Post-secondary education in Computer Science/Software Engineering/IT

Tools

Azure Container Apps

Azure Active Directory (Entra ID)

Key Vault

Azure SQL

API Management (APIM)

Azure Functions

Datadog

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Job description

S I Systems seeks a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to enhance Azure-based platforms and cloud-native apps in a financial services context. You will blend SRE and platform engineering to improve reliability, observability, and deploy automation across DEV/UAT/PROD.

Lead incident response, tuning metrics like SLOs/SLIs, and drive CI/CD improvements with GitHub Actions. On-site in Toronto, 4 days per week, with a focus on Azure services and production readiness.