Looking for Site Reliability Engineer (AzureData) in Bellevue, WA – Hybrid

Saksoft; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Saksoft is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Azure+Data) in Bellevue, WA, on a hybrid basis. You will own production Azure infrastructure, optimize reliability, and lead incident response across on-site and offshore teams.

Responsibilities include designing landing zones, monitoring, cost optimization, governance, and data platform support across ADF, ADLS Gen2, Synapse, Cosmos DB, and Fabric.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of infrastructure support or SRE in cloud environments.
• Hands-on ownership of production Azure environments and data platforms.
• Experience with incident, problem, change, security, privacy, and governance processes.
• Strong communication for onsite and offshore collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure reliability and optimization: Own the availability, performance, capacity, and cost of production Azure infrastructure.
• Azure architecture, security, and governance: Design and operate landing zones, subscriptions, VNets, and firewall protections.
• Incident, problem, and change management: Lead triage, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Compliance and operational readiness: Maintain security, privacy, audit, runbooks, SOPs and playbooks.
• Certificates, secrets and dependencies: Manage lifecycle, renewals, and secure service communication.
• Data platform infrastructure: Support and optimize ADF, ADLS Gen2, Synapse Analytics, Cosmos DB, DQE, Fabric.
• Monitoring and observability: Use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, and dashboards.
• Automation and engineering practices: Apply IaC and SRE practices (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, YAML, Python).
• Cost and performance management: Right-size resources and budgets without compromising reliability.
• Customer and team collaboration: Coordinate across onsite/offshore teams.

Skills

Azure Infra Services

Azure Monitor

Azure Storage

SRE/Cloud Operations

Incident management

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

ARM

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Position

Site Reliability Engineer (Azure+Data)

Location

Bellevue, WA - Hybrid

Duration

Long Term

Job Description

6 years of experience in infrastructure support site reliability engineering cloud operations or platform engineering including strong hands-on ownership of production Azure environments

Demonstrated expertise in reliability performance capacity cost optimization and high severity incident leadership

Deep knowledge of incident problem change security privacy compliance audit and governance processes

Strong experience with Azure access control certificates secrets monitoring logging CICD Infrastructure as Code and scripting

Solid understanding of data platform architecture and dependencies across ADF ADLS Gen2 Synapse Cosmos DB Azure Data Explorer SQL Server and Microsoft Fabric

Strong production ownership customer facing communication and the ability to drive operational discipline across onsite and offshore teams

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure reliability and optimization Own the availability performance capacity and cost of production Azure infrastructure supporting high volume data platforms target 9999 availability SLA adherence and QoS while proactively addressing bottlenecks saturation and scaling risks
• Azure architecture security and governance Design and operate landing zones subscriptions resource groups VNets peering ExpressRoute Azure Firewall Bastion DDoS protection Azure Policy Entra ID RBAC Managed Identities PIM and Conditional Access
• Incident problem and change management Lead triage mitigation stakeholder communication root cause analysis corrective actions risk assessment approvals validation and rollback planning improve MTTR and prevent repeat incidents
• Compliance and operational readiness Maintain S360 security privacy audit and governance compliance sustain accurate runbooks SOPs CENs and operational playbooks
• Certificates secrets and dependencies Manage the lifecycle of certificates keys secrets identities and service dependencies track expirations automate renewals and secure service to service communication
• Data platform infrastructure Support and optimize Azure Data Factory ADLS Gen2 Synapse Analytics Cosmos DB Azure Data Explorer SQL Server and Microsoft Fabric troubleshoot throughput and dependency issues and guide platform modernization and Fabric migration
• Monitoring and observability Use Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights and KQL platform metrics ing and cost dashboards to detect risks analyze trends and drive evidence based decisions
• Automation and engineering practices Standardize infrastructure and operational workflows through Azure DevOps GitHub Actions ARM Bicep Terraform YAML PowerShell Azure CLI Python and Power Automate apply SRE practices including error budgets automated recovery and self-healing
• Cost and performance management Right size resources optimize compute storage networking SQL and Cosmos capacity and implement budgets and reservation planning without compromising reliability
• Customer and team collaboration Serve as the infrastructure SRE contact for Redmond customers communicate risks and optimization opportunities clearly and coordinate consistent execution across onsite offshore infrastructure SRE and data engineering teams

Mandatory Skills

Azure Infra Services, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage

Good to Have Skills

Azure Data Factory