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Site Reliability Engineer - SRE

Apex Systems · Austin, TX · 3 days ago
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About the role

The role focuses on safeguarding the availability, performance, and scalability of our mission-critical, Azure-hosted platform. As an individual contributor, you will apply your expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and observability to maintain and enhance our systems, collaborating closely with Agile development teams to embed reliability principles throughout the application lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and optimize Azure infrastructure, ensuring the health, performance, and availability of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS components.
  • Enhance observability by defining, measuring, and refining Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Objectives (SLOs) using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics (KQL).
  • Develop automation and tooling using scripting languages (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and potentially C#/.NET to eliminate manual tasks and improve efficiency.
  • Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, contributing to incident triage, mitigation, root cause analysis (RCA), and the implementation of preventive actions.
  • Collaborate with software development, QA, and other technology teams to ensure reliability, scalability, and performance requirements are met.
  • Create and maintain clear documentation for systems, processes, and runbooks.
  • Troubleshoot and support integrations with third-party systems via APIs and SSO implementations.

Requirements

  • Education: A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience is required.
  • Experience: This position requires 2-5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations/Engineering, Systems Administration, or Software Engineering with a strong operational focus. Hands-on experience with platform development, automation strategies, and monitoring strategies within Azure is necessary. Familiarity with SQL and the .NET stack is also required for effective application troubleshooting.

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting production workloads on Microsoft Azure (IaaS & PaaS).
  • Proficiency with Azure monitoring tools (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics) and KQL query language.
  • Solid scripting skills for automation (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python).
  • Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools, particularly Azure DevOps pipelines.
  • Proficiency with Git workflows and platforms like Azure Repos or GitHub.
  • Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, Load Balancing, Firewalls).

Skills

  • A basic understanding or development experience with C#/.NET applications.
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps).
  • Experience supporting relational (e.g., Azure SQL) and NoSQL (e.g., Cosmos DB) databases.
  • Basic familiarity with modern JavaScript front-end technologies like React/Typescript.
  • Experience working in Agile development environments or within the financial services industry.
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).

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.

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