Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Azure & Observability

Luxoft; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Luxoft seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of banking platforms. You will design, implement, and improve SRE practices across the SDLC, partnering with development, infrastructure, and business teams to boost resiliency through automation and observability.

You will lead incident responses, perform RCAs, and drive automation and tooling to improve performance, capacity, and fault tolerance in a cloud-native, Azure-based

Qualifications

• First 2 weeks onsite in Buffalo or Wilmington, then remote with occasional travel.
• Strong experience in observability and monitoring with hands-on expertise.
• Proficient in OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, and centralized logging.
• Experience designing automated regression testing frameworks.
• Proven IaC expertise with Terraform.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Expert knowledge of production systems monitoring and incident management.
• Understanding of cloud-native architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience with Azure including resource groups, scaling, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with Azure-native tooling such as Application Insights, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support highly available, scalable, and resilient apps and cloud infra following SRE best practices.
• Lead initiatives to improve reliability, availability, and operational maturity through automation.
• Define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical services.
• Develop observability strategies with Dynatrace, OTel, metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerts.
• Design end-to-end monitoring solutions for health of apps, infra, and customer experience.
• Analyze production telemetry to identify bottlenecks and capacity constraints.
• Lead incident response for high-severity events and coordinate cross-functional teams.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Drive operational excellence via automation of tasks, workflows, deployments, and recovery procedures.
• Collaborate with development to build observable services across the SDLC.
• Develop automated regression testing strategies to validate stability after deployments.
• Review architectural designs to improve resiliency and cloud optimization.
• Lead capacity planning, performance tuning, and workload optimization.
• Maintain runbooks, incident playbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, architecture, and support teams for continuous improvement.
• Communicate system health and reliability trends to stakeholders.
• Present reliability initiatives at architecture reviews and leadership meetings.
• Mentor engineers on observability, cloud engineering, automation, and SRE principles.

Skills

Observability

Monitoring

Dynatrace

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Logging

Dashboards

Alerting

Regression testing

Terraform

CI/CD

Azure

Incident management

SRE

Automation

Cloud-native

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Capacity planning

Tools

Terraform

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Log Analytics

Job description

Luxoft seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of banking platforms. You will design, implement, and improve SRE practices across the SDLC, partnering with development, infrastructure, and business teams to boost resiliency through automation and observability.

You will lead incident responses, perform RCAs, and drive automation and tooling to improve performance, capacity, and fault tolerance in a cloud-native, Azure-based