Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Application Observability, Readiness (Azure)

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colombia, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with development teams to design and execute monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and APM instrumentation across various applications and services.

• Lead the deployment, configuration, and enhancement of Application Performance Monitoring solutions.

• Utilize observability best practices through Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic, and Log Analytics (KQL).

• Facilitate code-level instrumentation, distributed tracing, and structured logging.

• Create and sustain application-level monitoring dashboards and operational health metrics.

• Establish and implement SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies based on latency, error rates, traffic, and resource saturation.

• Enhance monitoring and alerting capabilities by leveraging production insights and lessons learned from incidents.

• Engage in production readiness reviews to pinpoint operational risks, observability gaps, and potential failure scenarios.

• Assist in incident analysis and post-incident enhancements through improved telemetry and monitoring practices.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure applications are dependable, scalable, and ready for production.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations, or similar roles.

• At least 1 year of practical experience with DBT, Databricks, and SQL.

• Extensive experience in supporting and operating applications within Microsoft Azure IaaS environments.

• Hands-on experience with application observability, monitoring, and reliability engineering practices.

• Proven experience in implementing and managing APM solutions like Application Insights, New Relic, or equivalent platforms.

• Skilled in designing dashboards and monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics (KQL).

• Familiar with CI/CD environments, including Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed application systems.

• Practical SRE experience in incident analysis, root cause investigation, and proactive problem prevention.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to collaborate effectively with global teams.

• Must be a legal resident of Peru, Colombia, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, or Brazil.

• Preferred: experience with PowerShell and/or Bash; knowledge of scalability, availability, and resilience patterns; involvement in production readiness and operational excellence initiatives; enterprise-scale reliability engineering practices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary with performance-based incentives.

• Opportunity for career advancement and professional development.

• Flexible work environment and remote work options.

• Health and wellness benefits.

• Engaging company culture with team-building activities.