SRE (Azure + Data)

Apptad Inc; Bellevue (WA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apptad Inc. in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (Azure + Data) to own production Azure infrastructure, ensure high availability, and optimize performance and costs in a hybrid work setup.

You will lead incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and implement IaC with Terraform, ARM/Bicep, PowerShell, and Python, collaborating with onsite and offshore teams to drive reliability and governance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in infrastructure SRE/cloud ops with production Azure ownership.
• Experience in incident, problem, change management and governance.
• Scripting and IaC using Azure DevOps, Terraform, PowerShell, Python.

Responsibilities

• Own availability, performance, and cost of production Azure infra with SLA targets.
• Design and operate landing zones, VNets, RBAC, policies, and governance.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and rollback planning.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and security/compliance readiness.
• Automate recovery, monitoring, and cost optimization.

Skills

Azure

SRE

Incident response

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

ARM

Bicep

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer (Azure + Data)

Work Mode: Hybrid

Location: Bellevue, WA

Job Description :

• 6 years of experience in infrastructure support site reliability engineering cloud operations or platform engineering including strong hands‑on ownership of production Azure environments
• Demonstrated expertise in reliability performance capacity cost optimization and high severity incident leadership
• Deep knowledge of incident problem change security privacy compliance audit and governance processes
• Strong experience with Azure access control certificates secrets monitoring logging CICD Infrastructure as Code and scripting
• Solid understanding of data platform architecture and dependencies across ADF ADLS Gen2 Synapse Cosmos DB Azure Data Explorer SQL Server and Microsoft Fabric
• Strong production ownership customer facing communication and the ability to drive operational discipline across onsite and offshore teams

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure reliability and optimization Own the availability performance capacity and cost of production Azure infrastructure supporting high volume data platforms target 9999 availability SLA adherence and QoS while proactively addressing bottlenecks saturation and scaling risks
• Azure architecture security and governance Design and operate landing zones subscriptions resource groups VNets peering ExpressRoute Azure Firewall Bastion DDoS protection Azure Policy Entra ID RBAC Managed Identities PIM and Conditional Access
• Incident problem and change management Lead triage mitigation stakeholder communication root cause analysis corrective actions risk assessment approvals validation and rollback planning improve MTTR and prevent repeat incidents
• Compliance and operational readiness Maintain S360 security privacy audit and governance compliance sustain accurate runbooks SOPs CENs and operational playbooks
• Certificates secrets and dependencies Manage the lifecycle of certificates keys secrets identities and service dependencies track expirations automate renewals and secure service to service communication
• Data platform infrastructure Support and optimize Azure Data Factory ADLS Gen2 Synapse Analytics Cosmos DB Azure Data Explorer SQL Server and Microsoft Fabric troubleshoot throughput and dependency issues and guide platform modernization and Fabric migration
• Monitoring and observability Use Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights and KQL platform metrics ing and cost dashboards to detect risks analyze trends and drive evidence based decisions
• Automation and engineering practices Standardize infrastructure and operational workflows through Azure DevOps GitHub Actions ARM Bicep Terraform YAML PowerShell Azure CLI Python and Power Automate apply SRE practices including error budgets automated recovery and self-healing
• Cost and performance management Right size resources optimize compute storage networking SQL and Cosmos capacity and implement budgets and reservation planning without compromising reliability
• Customer and team collaboration Serve as the infrastructure SRE contact for Redmond customers communicate risks and optimization opportunities clearly and coordinate consistent execution across onsite offshore infrastructure SRE and data engineering teams

Skills

• Mandatory Skills : Azure Infra Services, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage
• Good to Have Skills : Azure Data Factory