Job Description

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.