SRE-Azure - Global Industrial

Motion Industries; Birmingham (AL); In loco; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Healthcare

401(k)

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Descrizione del lavoro

Motion Industries is seeking an Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to enhance reliability, availability, and performance of enterprise apps on Microsoft Azure. The role combines software engineering, cloud infra, automation, and DevOps to reduce toil and build resilient cloud-native solutions.

The Azure SRE will leverage AKS, IaC (Terraform, ARM), and observability tools to keep mission-critical systems highly available and secure, collaborating with cloud engineering, architecture, and

Competenze

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and 5–7 years in a tech/software engineering role.
• Experience with large-scale, highly available cloud platforms and distributed applications.

Mansioni

• Monitor and optimize performance, availability, and reliability of Azure-hosted platforms.
• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets.
• Drive reliability improvements via metrics, trend analysis, and platform modernization.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve testing, release validation, and deployment.
• Design, build, and support AKS, networking, app services, and storage on Azure.
• Develop IaC solutions using Terraform and Azure-native deployment tech.
• Lead incident response, RCA, and post-incident reviews.
• Automate platform provisioning and deployments to reduce toil and improve reliability.

Conoscenze

SRE principles

Azure cloud

Kubernetes

Terraform

IaC automation

Incident management

Monitoring & observability

DevOps practices

Formazione

Bachelor's degree

Strumenti

Azure AKS

Terraform

ARM Templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Grafana

Datadog

Dynatrace

Descrizione del lavoro

Birmingham, AL, USA

Atlanta, GA, USA

Full time

R26_0000031014

The Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for improving the reliability, availability, scalability, performance, and operational excellence of enterprise applications and platforms hosted within Microsoft Azure. This role combines software engineering, cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevOps practices to build and support resilient, cloud-native solutions while reducing operational toil through automation.

The Azure SRE leverages Azure platform services, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and observability tools to ensure mission-critical systems remain highly available, secure, and performant. This role partners closely with application development, cloud engineering, architecture, and cybersecurity teams to drive continuous improvement, accelerate cloud adoption, and maintain service reliability through proactive monitoring, incident management, and operational engineering.

JOB DUTIES

• Monitor, analyze, and optimize system performance, availability, and reliability across Azure-hosted platforms and applications.
• Define and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and Error Budgets.
• Drive continuous service improvement through operational metrics, trend analysis, reliability engineering practices, and platform modernization efforts.
• Partner with development teams to improve service reliability through testing, release validation, deployment automation, and production readiness reviews.
• Design, build, and support Azure infrastructure and platform services, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Networking, App Services, and Storage
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions utilizing Terraform and Azure-native deployment technologies.
• Lead and support incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), post-incident reviews, and service restoration efforts.
• Automate operational processes, platform provisioning, deployments, and remediation activities to reduce manual effort (TOIL) and improve reliability.
• Identify, investigate, and mitigate performance, security, networking, and availability issues, including traffic anomalies and service disruptions.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles as needed.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Typically requires a bachelor's degree and five (5) to seven (7) years of experience in a technology and/or software engineering role or an equivalent combination.
• Experience supporting large-scale, highly available, distributed applications and cloud platforms.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles, including SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis, and Operational Excellence.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including infrastructure, networking, security, platform services, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience administering and supporting Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Kubernetes clusters, containers, and scalable distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM Templates) and Git-based deployment practices.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and DevOps methodologies.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across cloud infrastructure, operating systems, databases, networking, and security domains.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Grafana, Datadog, and Dynatrace.
• Knowledge of microservices, APIs, distributed architectures, and cloud-native design patterns.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, networking, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Experience with capacity planning, performance engineering, scalability testing, disaster recovery, and business continuity practices.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY

No

COMPANY INFORMATION

Motion offers an excellent benefits package which includes options for healthcare coverage, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, vacation, sick, and holiday pay.

DISCLAIMER

This job description illustrates the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job classification. It is not intended to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and skills required. Management retains the right to add or modify duties at any time.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

Where permitted by applicable law, successful applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to start date. COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment, subject to an approved accommodation, and proof of vaccination will be required on or prior to start date.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.

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