Site Reliability Engineer
Clear Destination Inc.
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Job summary
Clear Destination Inc. is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to operate and optimize cloud-native platforms with a strong emphasis on Azure environments. You will own automation-first practices, build scalable architectures, and contribute to high availability of critical services.
The role covers incident response, RCA leadership, and proactive performance tuning across App Services, ASEv3, AGW, and Front Door, leveraging tools like Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, and Azure Monitor.
Qualifications
- 1–3+ years of Site Reliability Engineering experience.
Responsibilities
- Operate and optimize cloud-native platforms with a focus on reliability and scalability.
- Lead RCA and incident management to reduce recurrence and improve SLIs/SLOs.
- Automate provisioning and day-2 operations using IaC and automation-first approaches.
Skills
Education
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Job description
Site Reliability Engineer with 1–3+ years of experience in operating and optimizing cloud-native platforms with a strong focus on Azure environments. Working knowledge in building highly available, scalable, and secure systems using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation-first practices.
Experienced in managing application hosting architectures including Azure App Services, ASEv3, Application Gateway (AGW) and Azure Front Door, ensuring high performance and resilience across distributed systems.
Demonstrates an automation mindset by leveraging modern engineering tools and AI-assisted development platforms (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot) to accelerate delivery, reduce operational toil, and improve reliability standards — with careful validation of outputs for security and production readiness.
- Microsoft Azure (Preferred)
- Understanding and experience in developing Azure function Apps, Azure logic Apps
- Understanding of event triggers, event hub, service bus.
- Application Hosting: App Services, App Service Plans, ASEv3
- Incident Management, P1 troubleshooting, Change Management
- Experienced in leading RCA and representing on the weekly call
- SLA / SLO / Error Budget concepts
- System Performance Optimization & Capacity Planning
- Toil Reduction through Automation
- Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM Templates
- Azure Automation (Hybrid Workers)
- Azure Functions (Serverless automation)
- Azure Logic Apps, Automation through Runbooks
- API-based automation and orchestration
- Azure Monitor, Log Analytics Workspace, Grafana, Site 24x7 (or similar SaaS based synthetic monitoring tool)
- Application Insights
- KQL (Kusto Query Language)
- Alert tuning and signal-to-noise optimization
- Leveraging GitHub Copilot / Microsoft Copilot for:
- Automation development support
- Troubleshooting and log analysis assistance
- Proven track record of workforce optimization leveraging AI tools.
- Applying validation frameworks to ensure secure, accurate, and production-grade outputs
- CI/CD using Azure DevOps
- Understanding on version control
- API integrations (REST, Postman, SoapUI)
- Source control and release management
- Managed production environments ensuring high availability and reliability of cloud-hosted applications
- Understands incident response, performed deep root cause analysis, and implemented preventive measures to reduce recurrence
- Improved system resilience through proactive monitoring and performance tuning strategies
- Designed and supported application architectures using:
- Azure App Services and App Service Plans
- Azure App Service Environment v3 (ASEv3) for isolated, high-scale workloads
- Azure Application Gateway (WAF-enabled) for L7 traffic management
- Azure Front Door for global traffic routing and failover
- Implemented secure and scalable cloud networking patterns, optimizing latency and throughput
- Identified repetitive operational tasks and reduced manual effort through automation-first solutions
- Developed automation using:
- Terraform / Bicep / ARM templates
- Azure Automation (Hybrid Workers)
- Azure Functions for event-driven workflows
- Leveraged AI-assisted tools (GitHub Copilot, Copilot) to accelerate scripting and automation development, while ensuring strict validation for enterprise use
- Built and enhanced observability using:
- Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics
- Created KQL-based queries and dashboards for proactive issue detection
- Reduced false alerts by optimizing alert thresholds and improving signal quality
- Analyzed application performance across distributed systems to identify bottlenecks
- Implemented improvements through:
- Scaling strategies (horizontal & vertical)
- Network optimization (AGW / Front Door tuning)
- Backend service improvements
- Partnered with SRE, CloudOps, and development teams to design resilient systems
- Contributed to runbooks, documentation, and operational standards
- Enabled engineering teams by improving platform reliability and deployment pipelines
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field
- Experience with microservices and distributed architectures
- Exposure to low-code automation platforms
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services
- AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals
- AZ-104 Azure Administrator
- AZ-700 Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions
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