Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Encora10; Colombia; Remote; COP 190,000,000 - 340,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Application Observability & Readiness (Azure) to join a remote, global team. You will drive observability across applications, implement APM instrumentation, and lead reliability initiatives in Azure environments.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in SRE or cloud operations, hands-on experience with DBT, Databricks, and SQL, and strong English communication for global collaboration. Remote work with international teams is supported.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations, or related roles.
• Mandatory 1 year hands-on with DBT, Databricks, and SQL.
• Experience with Azure IaaS, observability, monitoring, and reliability practices.
• Experience implementing APM solutions such as Application Insights or New Relic.
• Strong scripting/automation plus CI/CD in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Proven ability to design dashboards, SLIs/SLOs, and alerting strategies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to design monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and APM instrumentation.
• Lead implementation and optimization of APM solutions.
• Apply observability best practices using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic, Log Analytics.
• Enable code-level instrumentation, distributed tracing, and structured logging.
• Design and maintain application-level monitoring dashboards and health metrics.
• Define SLIs and SLOs and implement effective alerting for latency, errors, traffic.
• Improve monitoring and alerting through production insights and incident learnings.
• Participate in production readiness reviews and identify observability gaps.
• Support incident analysis and post-incident improvements with telemetry enhancements.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure reliability and production readiness.

Skills

Azure IaaS

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

New Relic

Databricks

DBT

SQL

KQL

SRE

Observability

Distributed Tracing

Structured Logging

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

English Communication

Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Application Observability & Readiness (Azure)

Key Skills: Azure IaaS, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic, Databricks, DBT, SQL, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Log Analytics (KQL), Observability, Distributed Tracing, Structured Logging. Experience: 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations, or related roles. Mandatory minimum of 1 year of hands‑on experience with DBT, Databricks, and SQL. Location: Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rical. Work Mode: Remote At Coforge, we are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Application Observability & Readiness (Azure) (#21013-18-1) with the following profile.

Main Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to design and implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and APM instrumentation across applications and services.
• Lead the implementation, configuration, and optimization of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions.
• Apply observability best practices using tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic, and Log Analytics (KQL).
• Enable code‑level instrumentation, distributed tracing, and structured logging to improve application visibility and reliability.
• Design and maintain application‑level monitoring dashboards and operational health metrics.
• Define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and effective alerting strategies based on latency, error rates, traffic, and resource saturation.
• Continuously improve monitoring and alerting mechanisms through production insights and incident learnings.
• Participate in production readiness reviews, identifying operational risks, observability gaps, and potential failure scenarios before deployment.
• Support incident analysis and post‑incident improvements through enhanced telemetry and monitoring practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure applications are reliable, scalable, and production‑ready.

Mandatory Requirements

• Strong experience supporting and operating applications in Microsoft Azure IaaS environments.
• Hands‑on experience with application observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering practices.
• Mandatory experience with DBT, Databricks, and SQL (minimum 1 year of experience).
• Experience implementing and managing APM solutions such as Application Insights, New Relic, or similar platforms.
• Experience designing dashboards and monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics (KQL).
• Familiarity with CI/CD environments including Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Solid understanding of cloud‑native architectures and distributed application systems.
• Practical SRE mindset with experience in incident analysis, root cause investigation, and proactive problem prevention.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell and/or Bash.
• Knowledge of scalability, availability, and resilience patterns in modern cloud environments.
• Experience driving production readiness and operational excellence initiatives.
• Exposure to reliability engineering best practices in enterprise‑scale environments.

At Coforge, we hire professionals solely based on their skills and qualifications and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.