Senior SRE - Azure Observability & Readiness (Remote)

Encora; Colombia; Remote; COP 222,795,000 - 318,279,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Application Observability & Readiness (Azure). This remote role requires 5+ years in SRE/cloud ops with DBT, Databricks, and SQL experience.

You will implement monitoring, dashboards, and APM across services, and drive produc­tion readiness by defining SLIs/SLOs and proactive incident prevention. Responsibilities include leading APM implementations, configuring observability tooling (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic,

Qualifications

• 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).
• 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.

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.

Skills

Azure IaaS

Observability

APM instrumentation

DBT

Databricks

SQL

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

SRE mindset

English communication

Tools

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

New Relic

Log Analytics

PowerShell

Job description

Coforge is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Application Observability & Readiness (Azure). This remote role requires 5+ years in SRE/cloud ops with DBT, Databricks, and SQL experience.

You will implement monitoring, dashboards, and APM across services, and drive produc­tion readiness by defining SLIs/SLOs and proactive incident prevention. Responsibilities include leading APM implementations, configuring observability tooling (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic,