Azure Cloud Site Reliability Engineer
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Job Title: Azure Cloud Site Reliability Engineer Location: Calgary, AB (Onsite) Mode : Contract
Role Overview: The SRE will be responsible for the reliability, availability, and performance of Azure/AWS PaaS and IaaS workloads. They bridge the gap between development and operations, focusing on building automated systems that prevent failures, managing incident responses, and optimizing cloud costs.
Key Responsibilities: • System Reliability & Monitoring: Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems such as Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, Application Insights, and Log Analytics. • Automation & Toil Reduction: Automate repetitive manual operations (toil) such as environment provisioning, system patching, and scaling. Use IaC tools like Terraform and Ansible to manage infrastructure. • Incident Response & Management: Actively manage incident responses, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortem investigations to improve system reliability and minimize mean time to resolution (MTTR). • Cloud SRE Agent Integration: Deploy and configure Cloud SRE Agent to automate incident investigation, execute remediation steps (restart, scale, rollback), and manage routine tasks. • Capacity Planning & Scalability: Analyze usage patterns to optimize cloud resources, ensuring high availability and performance while managing costs via Azure Cost Management. • CI/CD & DevOps Collaboration: Integrate automation workflows into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions or Azure Pipelines) to ensure reliable deployments.
Required Skills & Qualifications: • Cloud Platforms: Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure infrastructure services (Compute, Storage, Networking, AKS). • Scripting & Programming: Proficiency in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for building automation tools. • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Extensive experience with Terraform and ARM templates/Bicep. • Observability Tools: Experience with Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog. • Containers & Orchestration: Solid understanding of Kubernetes/AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service). • Operating Systems: Proficient in Windows/Linux environments. • Azure Certification is a + • Exposure to multi Cloud environment is must.
Typical "Day in the Life" Activities:
- Reviewing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets.
- Refining auto-scaling rules for Kubernetes clusters based on traffic trends.
- Working with developers to review service architecture and ensure fault tolerance.
- Configuring AI-driven alert suppression to reduce alert fatigue.
- Creating Azure Dashboards to visualize key performance indicators (KPIs).
Thanks, Anjali Jaiswal Raas Infotek Newark, DE -19702 Email: anjali.jaiswal@raasinfotek.com