Senior SRE: Azure & Kubernetes Reliability

Horizontal Talent

Mendota Heights (MN)

On-site

USD 92,000 - 142,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Retirement plan

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen monitoring, automation, and incident response for Azure-based Kubernetes applications. You will collaborate across DevOps, security, and development teams to improve reliability, performance, and security in a cloud-native environment.

Qualified candidates bring 5+ years in SRE/ops, 2+ years in cloud-native DevOps, and hands-on Azure/AKS expertise.

Qualifications

5+ years in software or operations engineering or a related technical role.
2+ years in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a similar cloud-native environment.
Hands-on experience supporting cloud-based web applications in Microsoft Azure.
Strong knowledge of monitoring infrastructure, uptime, latency, and performance in distributed systems.
Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

Support the reliability, availability, performance, and efficiency of cloud services and supporting infrastructure.
Design, implement, and improve Site Reliability Engineering practices for cloud products and services.
Build and enhance monitoring that detects symptoms early and helps prevent service disruptions.
Monitor and troubleshoot Kubernetes-based applications and services running in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Collaborate with DevOps, security, architecture, infrastructure, network, and development teams to resolve cross-functional issues.
Analyze key performance indicators and telemetry to identify trends, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement.
Automate and strengthen operational processes to improve resilience, scalability, and security.
Document processes, findings, and supporting materials to improve clarity and team knowledge sharing.
Participate in compliance and regulatory activities as needed.