Sr SRE/ Azure

Korn Ferry; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Remote; USD 82,656 - 89,544; Part time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Azure. This remote role involves designing and operating Azure infrastructure, managing GitOps deployments, and maintaining high reliability and security standards. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in SRE/DevOps and extensive knowledge of Azure services, Terraform, and security best practices. Strong collaboration skills are essential for working across teams. This is a contract position with a competitive hourly rate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE/Platform/DevOps roles operating production systems.
• Practical experience with Azure AD/RBAC, network security, secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Design & operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Git-based workflows.
• Manage GitOps deployments with ArgoCD integrating with GitHub for change management.
• Provision & maintain databases: Azure MySQL and Azure SQL Server.
• Define SLIs/SLOs, implement telemetry, and run capacity/performance tuning.
• Enforce best practices for identity, access, network segmentation, secrets, and configuration hardening.
• Improve pipelines and repeatable runbooks to reduce toil.
• Maintain high-quality runbooks and architecture diagrams.

Skills

Azure expertise (AKS, ACR, VNets/NSGs)

Terraform (IaC)

GitHub actions

ArgoCD (GitOps)

Databases (MySQL, SQL Server)

Security-first mindset

Collaboration with teams

Education

5+ years in SRE/Platform/DevOps roles

Job description

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This range is provided by Korn Ferry. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$60.00/hr - $65.00/hr

We have partnered with our client in their search for a SR SRE to work remotely.

Overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer with Azure focus. Role is remote with EST alignment.

Responsibilities

• Design & operate Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Git-based workflows.
• Manage GitOps deployments with ArgoCD integrating with GitHub for change management.
• Provision & maintain databases: Azure MySQL and Azure SQL Server.
• Observability & reliability: Define SLIs/SLOs, implement telemetry, and run capacity/performance tuning.
• Security & compliance: Enforce best practices for identity, access, network segmentation, secrets, and configuration hardening.
• Automation & tooling: Improve pipelines and repeatable runbooks to reduce toil.
• Documentation: Maintain high-quality runbooks and architecture diagrams.

Key outcomes (first 90 days)

• IaC baselined: Terraform modules standardized for core Azure resources (AKS/compute, networking, storage, Key Vault, databases).
• Deployment flow repeatable: ArgoCD applications and GitHub workflows defined with clear promotion paths and automated guardrails.
• Reliability metrics live: SLIs/SLOs for critical services published; dashboards and alerts tuned to actionable thresholds.
• Security posture improved: Secrets management via Key Vault, RBAC in Azure AD, and hardened network controls.
• Operational runbooks: Documented incident response, backup/restore, and DR procedures for MySQL and SQL Server.

Skills Required

• Azure expertise: AKS, ACR, VNets/NSGs, Private Link, Load Balancers, Managed Identities, Key Vault, Azure Monitor.
• Terraform (IaC): Authoring reusable modules, remote state, workspaces.
• GitHub: Branching strategies, PR reviews, GitHub Actions.
• ArgoCD (GitOps): App-of-Apps patterns, sync waves, Helm/Kustomize integration.
• Databases: Provisioning/operating MySQL and SQL Server in Azure.
• Security-first mindset: Practical experience with Azure AD/RBAC, network security, secrets management.
• Collaboration: Comfortable working across on-prem and cloud teams.

Nice-to-Have

• Container security and supply-chain hygiene.
• Knowledge of Service Mesh (Istio/Linkerd).
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (PCI DSS).
• Cost optimization and FinOps practices in Azure.

Education & Work Experience

• 5+ years in SRE/Platform/DevOps roles operating production systems.

Location

Remote / EST

Client Industry

Insurance

About Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract