Senior DevOps SRE - Azure Cloud Reliability (Remote)

HCSS

Sugar Land (TX)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 170,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid holidays

401(k) with 5% match

Professional development

ERGs

On-site amenities

Dog-friendly campus

Job summary

HCSS is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong SRE focus to drive resilience and automation across our cloud environments in Sugar Land, TX. You will own Azure SQL Elastic Pool design, tuning, and automation, and lead high-availability initiatives with IaC practices using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.

Qualifications include 8+ years in DevOps/SRE, 3+ years with Azure Elastic Pools, and 5+ years in Azure services.

Qualifications

8+ years in DevOps or SRE focusing on cloud reliability.
3+ years managing Azure SQL Elastic Pools, including tuning and automation.
5+ years in Azure cloud services: networking, compute, databases, and identity.
3+ years applying SRE: SLIs, SLOs, incident management.

Responsibilities

Azure Elastic Pool Management: design, scaling, and optimization of Elastic Pools.
Monitor performance and establish observability and alerting for SQL resources.
Automate provisioning, scaling, and failover using IaC and scripting tools.
Collaborate with database and application teams to optimize resource usage.
High Availability and Disaster Recovery: design and implement highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
Develop and maintain disaster recovery strategies and runbooks.
Monitoring, Observability, and Automation: build dashboards in Grafana and automate tasks.
Incident Management and Operational Excellence: lead RCAs and post-incident reviews.
Cloud Infrastructure Management: manage Azure or AWS infrastructure and optimize costs.
Infrastructure as Code: define IaC with Terraform and maintain modular code.
Collaboration and Leadership: mentor juniors and partner with cross-functional teams.