Azure SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Azure SRE (Site Reliability Engineer)

Experience: 6-12 Years

Location: Chennai / Kochi

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to manage, automate, and optimize cloud infrastructure and application reliability on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Azure platform services, automation, observability, incident management, and DevOps practices to ensure highly available, scalable, and secure enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable and scalable Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Implement SRE best practices focused on availability, performance, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks.
• Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management activities.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve application reliability and performance.
• Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical services.
• Implement security, governance, and compliance best practices across Azure environments.

Mandatory Skills

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure DevOps
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Docker & Kubernetes
• Monitoring & Observability
• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Application Insights
• Incident & Problem Management
• Scripting (PowerShell/Python/Bash)
• Linux Administration
• Networking & Security Fundamentals

Good to Have

• GitOps
• Prometheus & Grafana
• ELK Stack
• Azure Landing Zone
• Azure Site Recovery
• Azure Automation
• Azure Policies & Governance
• FinOps & Cost Optimization

Required Experience

• 6+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Hands-on experience managing production workloads on Azure.
• Strong expertise in infrastructure automation and cloud operations.
• Experience supporting containerized applications and Kubernetes platforms.
• Proven experience in monitoring, incident management, and reliability engineering.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.