Site Reliability Engineer

About Sierra Studio

When you apply to Sierra, you join an ecosystem. We specialize in connecting talented Brazilian professionals with exciting career opportunities in a highly-vetted small community of growing companies in the US. Applying to Sierra seamlessly integrates you into this ecosystem, granting automatic eligibility for all relevant opportunities we offer.

About our hiring partner

Our hiring partner is on a mission to empower stakeholders in the senior living ecosystem with a data-driven platform that helps shape strategy and operations. Their platform enables owners, operators, investors, and other leaders in senior housing to make optimal, impactful decisions for our nation’s elderly. Their vision solves customer challenges in innovative, reliable, and scalable ways.

Your Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing the performance, availability, and observability of Azure-hosted applications and services. You'll bridge the gap between development and operations, ensuring products are resilient, secure, and fast.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure in Microsoft Azure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
Collaborate with engineering and DevOps teams to define and implement observability strategies (logging, metrics, tracing)
Monitor system performance and reliability, proactively identifying and resolving issues
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, with a focus on automation, speed, and safety
Develop and enforce best practices for incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
Participate in on-call rotation to address outages and ensure high availability
Perform capacity planning and load testing to support scalability
Define and track service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), and agreements (SLAs)
Contribute to infrastructure and cloud security best practices

Required Skills & Qualifications

3+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role
Strong experience with Microsoft Azure services (Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Monitor, Azure DevOps)
Proficiency in scripting languages: PowerShell, Bash, or Python
Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes or Azure Kubernetes Service)
Deep understanding of networking, DNS, SSL, and troubleshooting
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates)
Familiarity with observability tools (Application Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Effective communicator and collaborative team player
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Experience managing production workloads in Microsoft Azure
Experience in a SaaS environment preferred
Relevant Azure certifications are a plus (e.g., Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect)