Azure SRE: Cloud-Native Reliability Engineer

Motion; Birmingham, Northern (AL, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Vacation

Sick leave

Holiday pay

Job summary

Motion is seeking an Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise apps on Microsoft Azure. The role combines software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps practices to reduce toil and improve resilience.

You will work with AKS, Terraform, ARM Templates, and monitoring tools, collaborating with development, cloud, architecture, and security teams to drive reliability initiatives and production readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5–7 years in tech/software engineering.
• Experience with large-scale, highly available cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of SRE, incident management, RCAs, and observability.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and optimize Azure-based platforms for reliability and performance.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs and error budgets; manage service reliability.
• Automate deployments and runbooks; support incident response and RCA.
• Work with AKS, Azure Networking, App Services, and Storage.
• Participate in on-call rotations and improve deployment pipelines.

Skills

SRE principles

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

ARM Templates

AKS

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Motion is seeking an Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance reliability, scalability, and performance of enterprise apps on Microsoft Azure. The role combines software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps practices to reduce toil and improve resilience.

You will work with AKS, Terraform, ARM Templates, and monitoring tools, collaborating with development, cloud, architecture, and security teams to drive reliability initiatives and production readiness.