Senior Cloud SRE: Automate, Observe, and Uptime

Devopsroles; Carlsbad (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Alphatec Spine, Inc. in Carlsbad, CA seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on uptime, reliability, and automation for the Informatix cloud platform. The role targets reducing toil, building robust observability, and improving production-grade reliability.

The ideal candidate has strong incident response skills, experience with Azure AKS, and automation in Python/Bash/PowerShell, plus IaC knowledge. Will participate in 24/7 on-call and postmortems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Expertise with monitoring/observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Azure Monitor).
• Strong incident response, RCA, and on-call experience.
• Deep Azure knowledge including AKS, networking, storage, and service mesh tools (Istio).
• Strong automation/scripting skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
• Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, dashboards, and error budgets.
• Design for resiliency, failover, and graceful degradation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary contributor to the on-call rotation for 24/7 uptime.
• Proactively monitor and improve SLAs, SLOs, SLIs across services.
• Develop and maintain observability tooling (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Conduct postmortems and root cause analysis; implement fixes to prevent incidents.
• Eliminate toil through scripting and automation.
• Design/maintain automated incident detection and response systems.
• Establish runbooks, playbooks, and escalation protocols.
• Contribute to chaos testing and failure injection.
• Promote data-driven reliability practices.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

Observability tooling

Automation scripting

IaC (Terraform/Bicep/ARM)

Azure (AKS)

Incident response

Postmortems & RCA

On-call rotations

Chaos testing

Education

BS/MS in CS/Engineering

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK

Azure Monitor

Istio

Job description

Alphatec Spine, Inc. in Carlsbad, CA seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on uptime, reliability, and automation for the Informatix cloud platform. The role targets reducing toil, building robust observability, and improving production-grade reliability.

The ideal candidate has strong incident response skills, experience with Azure AKS, and automation in Python/Bash/PowerShell, plus IaC knowledge. Will participate in 24/7 on-call and postmortems.