Site Reliability Engineer III

Job Description

The Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role is focused on ensuring the reliability and operational excellence for Azure platform services. This position involves close partnership with teams across platform engineering, networking, security, and AI infrastructure to integrate reliability into Azure-native solutions. The role is critical in maintaining platform components to meet defined reliability, availability, and scalability objectives for enterprise workloads in Azure.

• Support observability, incident response, automation, and resilience testing for Azure platform services.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks for Azure landing zones, ingress and egress DMZs, and service integration layers.
• Ensure platform components meet defined reliability, availability, and scalability objectives.
• Partner with platform engineering, networking, security, and AI infrastructure teams to embed reliability into solutions.
• Sustain the consistent onboarding and operation of enterprise workloads in Azure.
• Contribute to the reliability of AI infrastructure that supports Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.

Experience

• Experience operating and supporting Azure platform services with a focus on reliability, availability, and scalability.
• Hands-on experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices, including observability, incident response, automation, and operational readiness.
• Background in collaborating with platform engineering, networking, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Experience supporting enterprise Azure landing zones, ingress and egress DMZs, and shared platform components.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain operational runbooks.
• Experience operating secure Azure environments and supporting AI infrastructure workloads at scale.
• Direct experience supporting AI infrastructure in Azure, including platforms for Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.
• Familiarity with designing and operating highly available service integration layers and network perimeters in complex environments.
• Advanced experience integrating reliability objectives into platform product operating models.
• Skills in automation, platform observability design, and driving operational excellence across shared Azure services.

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

About the Role

This role is based in Chandler, Arizona and is a hybrid position lasting 12 months. The pay rate is $65 -70/hr on W2.

Qualifications

Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law.