Job Description

Job Title: Senior Specialist (SRE) - Azure, AKS & DevOps

Education: Any Graduate

Experience: 8 to 15 years

Location: Mumbai

Key Skills:

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, AKS, DevOps, Automation, and Enterprise Operations to lead reliability engineering and managed services delivery for production cloud environments.

This role focuses on ensuring 24x7 availability, performance, security, patch compliance, scalability, and automation across Azure-first environments with exposure to AWS/GCP.

You will work closely with customers, internal engineering teams, and leadership to drive cloud transformation, implement SRE best practices, modernize DevOps delivery pipelines, and improve measurable service outcomes.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, AKS, DevOps, Automation, and Enterprise Operations to lead reliability engineering and managed services delivery for production cloud environments.

This role focuses on ensuring 24x7 availability, performance, security, patch compliance, scalability, and automation across Azure-first environments with exposure to AWS/GCP.

You will work closely with customers, internal engineering teams, and leadership to drive cloud transformation, implement SRE best practices, modernize DevOps delivery pipelines, and improve measurable service outcomes.

Primary Responsibilities

Reliability Engineering & SRE Practices

Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, MTTR, change failure rate, and availability targets.
Continuously improve platform reliability, scalability, resilience, and operational maturity.
Lead Sev-1 / Sev-2 incident management, escalation handling, and RCA reviews.
Conduct blameless postmortems and drive preventive actions.
Build operational runbooks, self-healing automation, and on-call processes.
Participate in architecture reviews for HA, DR, failover, and performance optimization.

Azure Cloud Operations & Engineering

Manage enterprise Azure environments including:
Azure Virtual Machines
VM Scale Sets
Azure App Services
Azure Functions
Azure SQL / Managed Instance
Azure Storage
Virtual Networks / NSGs
Application Gateway / WAF
Azure Front Door
Load Balancers
Azure Backup & Site Recovery
Implement Azure Well-Architected Framework best practices.
Drive governance using Management Groups, Policy, RBAC, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud.
Optimize cost using Reserved Instances, rightsizing, budgets, and tagging strategy.

AKS & Container Platform Engineering

Design, manage, and optimize Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
Manage cluster upgrades, autoscaling, node pools, ingress controllers, storage classes, and security policies.
Support container deployments using Helm, YAML manifests, GitOps workflows.
Improve AKS observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor for Containers.
Ensure platform reliability for microservices workloads.

DevOps, CI/CD & Automation

Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
Implement blue/green, rolling, and canary deployments with rollback strategies.
Automate infrastructure using Terraform, ARM Templates, and Bicep.
Develop scripts/tools using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Go.
Automate patching, backup validation, scaling, compliance checks, and recovery tasks.
Reduce manual operational toil through self-service automation.

Patching, Security & Compliance

Own enterprise patch management for Windows/Linux workloads using Azure Update Manager.
Manage maintenance windows and zero-downtime patch strategies.
Implement CIS benchmark, vulnerability remediation, and audit compliance controls.
Secure workloads with Key Vault, Private Link, NSGs, Conditional Access, PIM, Defender.
Support hybrid environments using Azure Arc-enabled servers.

Observability & Monitoring

Build and maintain monitoring platforms using:
Azure Monitor
Log Analytics
Application Insights
Grafana
Datadog
New Relic
Prometheus
Build executive dashboards, SRE scorecards, SLA reports, capacity trends.
Tune alerts to reduce noise and improve actionable detection.

Customer Engagement & Leadership

Serve as primary technical contact for enterprise customers.
Present monthly service reviews, patch compliance, reliability metrics, and improvement plans.
Mentor L1/L2 engineers and guide technical escalations.
Collaborate with customer architects, security teams, and developers.
Lead cloud modernization and operational excellence initiatives.

Experience

Required Qualifications

8 -10 years in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Production Operations.
Minimum 5+ years hands-on with Microsoft Azure production environments.
Proven experience managing critical enterprise workloads.
Strong customer-facing / managed services background preferred.

Technical Skills

Azure

Deep expertise in Azure compute, networking, storage, identity, monitoring, backup, DR.
Strong hands-on with AKS, Azure DevOps, Azure Policy, Key Vault.
DevOps / Automation
Terraform, ARM, Bicep, CI/CD pipelines.
PowerShell, Bash, Python scripting.
Containers
Kubernetes, Docker, AKS operations.
Monitoring
Azure Monitor, Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, Log Analytics.
Operations
Incident management, RCA, patching, performance tuning, DR drills.

Preferred Certifications

Microsoft AZ-104
AZ-305
AZ-400
AZ-500
Amazon Web Services Associate / Professional
CKA / Terraform Associate / SRE Foundation

Nice to Have

Multi-cloud (AWS / GCP) experience
Chaos engineering
FinOps knowledge
MSP / Managed Services experience
Large-scale enterprise operations
Security / Compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC2, HIPAA, PCI)

About Us

Datavail is a leading provider of data management, application development, analytics, and cloud services, with more than 1,000 professionals helping clients build and manage applications and data via a world-class tech-enabled delivery platform and software solutions across all leading technologies. For more than 17 years, Datavail has worked with thousands of companies spanning different industries and sizes, and is an AWS Advanced Tier Consulting Partner, a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI and Digital & App Innovation (Azure), an Oracle Partner, and a MySQL Partner.

About The Team

Datavail's Team of Cloud Experts Can Save You Time and Money

Our Cloud experts are capable to overcome every obstacle in helping clients manage everything from databases, analytics, reporting, migrations, and upgrades to monitoring and overall data management.

You can free up your IT resources to focus on growing your business rather than fighting fires. Our Cloud experts can guide you through strategic initiatives or support routine database management.

Cloud Managed Services

Datavail's business focuses on helping you use your data to drive business results through cost-saving services. The success of your business depends on how well you understand and manage your data. Our managed cloud services give you the power to unleash your organization's potential. We provide comprehensive and technically advanced support for Cloud Operation to ensure that your infrastructure is safe, secure, and managed with the utmost level of care.

Our delivery performance in data management leads the industry. We offer highly trained Cloud administrators via a 24×7, always on, always available, global delivery model.

With the combination of a proven delivery model and top-notch experience ensures that Datavail will remain the Cloud experts on demand you desire. Datavail's flexible and client focused services always add value to your organization.

Senior Specialist - Cloud SRE - Azure, AKS & DevOps