Azure Platform SRE Lead — Cloud Reliability & Automation

Vaco Recruiter Services; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Vaco Recruiter Services is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer / Azure SRE to optimize and scale an established Azure ecosystem. You will work with cloud architects, security, networking, data, and applications teams to improve platform reliability, automation, and DevOps practices.

The role emphasizes landing zone optimization, IaC expansion, and strong collaboration across enterprise teams to deliver secure, production-grade cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cloud engineering.
• 5+ years designing, implementing, or supporting Azure architecture and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
• Proven experience supporting highly available, production‑scale cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Optimize Azure Landing Zone architecture and strengthen secure cloud platform capabilities.
• Expand infrastructure-as-code practices using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates; improve CI/CD with Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Champion SRE principles, including SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and on‑call support.
• Maintain, optimize, and scale AKS and containerized workloads.
• Increase platform resilience via monitoring, disaster recovery, security improvements, and operational readiness.
• Partner with EA and dev teams to deliver Azure and Microsoft 365 cloud solutions.
• Drive automation and promote DevOps best practices across the organization.
• Design and support IAM solutions using Entra ID, Azure AD B2C, and federation technologies.
• Participate in Agile processes, peer reviews, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Communication

Analytical thinking

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

AKS

Kubernetes

Docker

Flux/ArgoCD

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Vaco Recruiter Services is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer / Azure SRE to optimize and scale an established Azure ecosystem. You will work with cloud architects, security, networking, data, and applications teams to improve platform reliability, automation, and DevOps practices.

The role emphasizes landing zone optimization, IaC expansion, and strong collaboration across enterprise teams to deliver secure, production-grade cloud solutions.