Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Alphatec Spine · Carlsbad · DevOps & Release $135,000–$150,000 5d ago

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

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency of the Informatix cloud platform. This role is focused on reducing manual operations work (toil), automating system reliability, and ensuring production-grade observability. The ideal candidate is a systems-focused engineer who is passionate about uptime, incident response, and continuous improvement through engineering solutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary contributor to the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 uptime for production systems.
• Proactively monitor and continuously improve SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs across critical services.
• Develop and maintain robust observability tooling including logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g., Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus).
• Proactively conduct postmortems and root cause analysis; implement fixes to prevent repeat incidents.
• Identify and eliminate manual operational toil through scripting and automation.
• Design and maintain automated incident detection and response systems.
• Establish and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and escalation protocols for system support.
• Contribute to chaos testing and failure injection to proactively uncover weaknesses.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence through data-driven reliability practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Azure Monitor).
• Solid background in incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including containerized services (AKS), networking, storage, and proficiency service mesh management tools (Istio)
• Strong automation and scripting experience (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, operational dashboards, and error budgets.
• Comfortable designing for resiliency, failover, and graceful degradation.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, HITRUST, IEC 62304) is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication with a focus on transparency and learning.

Education and/or Experience:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field preferred.
• 5+ years in production engineering roles with direct ownership of critical systems.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations:

• Microsoft certifications a plus

Equal Employment Opportunity & Other Disclosures

ATEC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state or local laws. Further, ATEC will make reasonable accommodations that are necessary to comply with disability discrimination laws.

For roles based in the United States that require access to hospital facilities, must be eligible for and maintain credentials at all required hospitals, including meeting any applicable physical requirements or vaccination requirements (including the COVID-19 vaccine, as applicable).

At this time, ATEC Spine does not sponsor employment visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.

Salary Range

Alphatec Spine, Inc. complies with state and federal wage and hour laws and compensation depends upon candidate’s qualifications, education, skill set, years of experience, and internal equity. $135,000 - $150,000 Full-Time Salary