Azure SRE: Cloud Reliability & Automation Engineer

Genuine Parts Company; Alabama; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Vacation

Sick

Holiday pay

Job summary

Genuine Parts Company is seeking an Azure Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise applications hosted in Microsoft Azure. This role blends software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps to reduce toil while building resilient, cloud-native solutions.

You will monitor and optimize Azure-based platforms, define SLI/SLO/SLA, and partner with development teams to improve deployment automation, incident response, and platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technology or related field.
• 5-7 years of experience in a technology or software engineering role.
• Experience supporting large-scale, highly available, distributed applications and cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering principles, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Proficient in Azure cloud services, AKS, IaC, and observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and optimize Azure-hosted platforms for performance and reliability.
• Define SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
• Lead incident response and post-incident RCAs.
• Automate deployments and reduce toil with IaC.
• Design and support AKS, Azure Networking, App Services, and Storage.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on reliability improvements.

Skills

SRE principles

Azure services

AKS

Terraform

ARM Templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

CI/CD

Monitoring

Windows Server

Linux

Hybrid cloud

Capacity planning

Disaster recovery

Business continuity

Analytical skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology or related field

Tools

Terraform

ARM Templates

AKS

Azure Monitor

Grafana

Datadog

Dynatrace

Application Insights

Log Analytics

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Genuine Parts Company is seeking an Azure Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise applications hosted in Microsoft Azure. This role blends software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps to reduce toil while building resilient, cloud-native solutions.

You will monitor and optimize Azure-based platforms, define SLI/SLO/SLA, and partner with development teams to improve deployment automation, incident response, and platform