Hybrid Site Reliability Engineer: AKS Observability Lead

Unlimited Systems; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Unlimited Systems is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own the observability strategy for our AKS-based production systems in Cincinnati, Ohio. You will define SLOs/SLIs, partner with DevOps and software engineering, and drive reliability as a first‑class concern to keep our services healthy and scalable.

You will build tooling and dashboards, refine incident response processes, and contribute to security reviews as we grow our cloud-native platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering in production cloud.
• Hands-on AKS: provisioning, upgrades, CNI, lifecycle management.
• Splunk SPL authoring, dashboards, alerting, data onboarding.
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights proficiency.
• IaC with Terraform; Helm and Kustomize familiarity.
• Scripting in Python/Go/Bash.
• Drive incident resolution and post-mortems.
• Translate complex topics for non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the observability strategy for AKS-based production systems.
• Define and drive meaningful SLOs and SLIs.
• Collaborate with DevOps and software engineering to improve reliability.
• Build internal tooling to reduce toil and accelerate incident response.
• Participate in security reviews and threat modeling for platform capabilities.

Skills

AKS experience

Splunk SPL

Instana APM

Azure Monitor & Log Analytics

Terraform

Helm & Kustomize

Python/Go/Bash

Incident response

Clear communication

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Job description

Unlimited Systems is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own the observability strategy for our AKS-based production systems in Cincinnati, Ohio. You will define SLOs/SLIs, partner with DevOps and software engineering, and drive reliability as a first‑class concern to keep our services healthy and scalable.

You will build tooling and dashboards, refine incident response processes, and contribute to security reviews as we grow our cloud-native platform.