Senior Azure & AKS Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking an experiencedSenior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise inAzure, AKS, and Terraform to build, operate, and support highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud platforms. The role focuses on improving system reliability, automating operations, enhancing platform scalability, and implementing Infrastructure as Code solutions across Azure-based environments. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with platform, application, and security teams while driving operational excellence and reducing manual effort through automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, scalability, performance, and availability of Azure-based platforms and services.
• Design, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot production workloads running onAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions usingTerraform for Azure environments.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
• Lead incident response activities, root cause analysis (RCA), and reliability improvement initiatives.
• Implement monitoring, ing, and observability solutions to proactively identify and resolve operational issues.
• Automate operational workflows and routine platform management tasks to reduce manual effort and improve efficiency.
• Manage AKS clusters including deployments, scaling, node pool management, upgrades, and production troubleshooting.
• Support batch processing and scheduled workloads using Kubernetes Jobs and CronJobs.
• UtilizePowerShell scripting for automation, operational support, and administration activities.
• Collaborate with development, platform, and security teams to ensure reliable and secure cloud operations.
• Establish and promote Site Reliability Engineering best practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, and postmortem reviews.
• Continuously improve platform resilience through automation and self-healing mechanisms.

Required Skills

Proficient

• Azure
• AKS
• Terraform

Intermediate

• PowerShell

Experience

• 6–13 years of overall IT experience with strong exposure to Cloud, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms and containerized workloads.
• Understanding of cloud operations, monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation practices.
• Experience working in Agile environments.
• Azure certifications are advantageous.