Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Application Observability & Readiness (Azure)

Encora10; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Corge Coforge is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) specializing in Application Observability & Readiness for Azure-based environments. The role focuses on instrumenting, monitoring, and optimizing visibility across distributed applications and services.

Join a globally distributed team to design dashboards, implement SLIs/SLOs, and drive production readiness through robust telemetry, logs, and tracing.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations, or related roles.
• Mandatory minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience with DBT, Databricks, and SQL.
• Strong experience supporting and operating applications in Microsoft Azure IaaS environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to design and implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and APM instrumentation across applications and services.
• Lead the implementation, configuration, and optimization of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions.
• Apply observability best practices using tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic, and Log Analytics (KQL).
• Enable code-level instrumentation, distributed tracing, and structured logging to improve application visibility and reliability.
• Design and maintain application-level monitoring dashboards and operational health metrics.
• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and effective alerting strategies based on latency, error rates, traffic, and resource saturation.
• Continuously improve monitoring and alerting mechanisms through production insights and incident learnings.
• Participate in production readiness reviews, identifying operational risks, observability gaps, and potential failure scenarios before deployment.
• Support incident analysis and post-incident improvements through enhanced telemetry and monitoring practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure applications are reliable, scalable, and production-ready.

Skills

Observability mindset

Incident response

Distributed tracing

Structured logging

Dashboarding

English communication

Tools

Azure IaaS

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

New Relic

Databricks

DBT

SQL

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

KQL / Log Analytics

Job description

Job Title

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Application Observability & Readiness (Azure)

Location and Work Mode

Location: Legal residents of Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Brazil. Work Mode: Remote

Key Skills

Azure IaaS, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic, Databricks, DBT, SQL, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Log Analytics (KQL), Observability, Distributed Tracing, Structured Logging

Experience

5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations, or related roles. Mandatory minimum of 1 year of hands-on experience with DBT, Databricks, and SQL.

Main Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to design and implement monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and APM instrumentation across applications and services.
• Lead the implementation, configuration, and optimization of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) solutions.
• Apply observability best practices using tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic, and Log Analytics (KQL).
• Enable code-level instrumentation, distributed tracing, and structured logging to improve application visibility and reliability.
• Design and maintain application-level monitoring dashboards and operational health metrics.
• Define and implement Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and effective alerting strategies based on latency, error rates, traffic, and resource saturation.
• Continuously improve monitoring and alerting mechanisms through production insights and incident learnings.
• Participate in production readiness reviews, identifying operational risks, observability gaps, and potential failure scenarios before deployment.
• Support incident analysis and post-incident improvements through enhanced telemetry and monitoring practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure applications are reliable, scalable, and production-ready.

Mandatory Requirements

• Strong experience supporting and operating applications in Microsoft Azure IaaS environments.
• Hands-on experience with application observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering practices.
• Mandatory experience with DBT, Databricks, and SQL (minimum 1 year of experience).
• Experience implementing and managing APM solutions such as Application Insights, New Relic, or similar platforms.
• Experience designing dashboards and monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics (KQL).
• Familiarity with CI/CD environments including Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed application systems.
• Practical SRE mindset with experience in incident analysis, root cause investigation, and proactive problem prevention.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams.

Preferred Requirements

• Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell and/or Bash.
• Knowledge of scalability, availability, and resilience patterns in modern cloud environments.
• Experience driving production readiness and operational excellence initiatives.
• Exposure to reliability engineering best practices in enterprise-scale environments.

Background and Commitment

At Coforge, we hire professionals solely based on their skills and qualifications and do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, or nationality.

Posting date

Posted on: 28-09-2026