Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Senior DevOps
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About the Role
Socium seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to support mission-critical cloud and on-premises platforms on Azure and air-gapped Kubernetes environments. The role requires 10+ years experience in SRE/DevOps, deep Kubernetes expertise, and strong automation skills.
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Responsibilities
- Ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of services running across Azure AKS and air gapped Kubernetes environments
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes platforms, including ingress controllers, storage layers, networking, and stateful workloads
- Design and implement infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools
- Implement and maintain GitOps deployment practices using ArgoCD and Kustomize
- Build, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions
- Support container lifecycle management, image repositories, registry mirroring, and container security practices
- Monitor infrastructure and application health using enterprise observability platforms
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root cause analysis initiatives
- Lead incident response activities and improve operational resilience through preventive measures
- Collaborate with platform, application, cloud, and security teams to enhance system reliability and architecture
- Participate in on call support for critical production environments
- Support ITIL aligned incident, change, and problem management processes
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Strong hands on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platforms
- Extensive experience managing Kubernetes environments, including AKS and Rancher RKE2
- Strong automation and scripting capabilities using Python, Go, and Bash
- Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, and Ansible
- Strong knowledge of GitOps methodologies and modern CI/CD practices
- Experience with enterprise monitoring, observability, and incident management
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
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General Description
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support and optimize mission critical cloud and on premises platforms across Microsoft Azure and highly secure air gapped Kubernetes environments.
- The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, availability, security, and operational excellence of enterprise platforms running across Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Rancher RKE2 environments.
- This role requires deep expertise in Kubernetes operations, infrastructure automation, GitOps practices, observability, incident management, and cloud native platform engineering.
- You will collaborate closely with engineering, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to build resilient, highly available, and secure enterprise platforms while driving automation and continuous operational improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of services running across Azure AKS and air gapped Kubernetes environments.
- Manage and optimize Kubernetes platforms, including ingress controllers, storage layers, networking, and stateful workloads.
- Design and implement infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools.
- Implement and maintain GitOps deployment practices using ArgoCD and Kustomize.
- Build, manage, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Support container lifecycle management, image repositories, registry mirroring, and container security practices.
- Monitor infrastructure and application health using enterprise observability platforms.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive root cause analysis initiatives.
- Lead incident response activities and improve operational resilience through preventive measures.
- Collaborate with platform, application, cloud, and security teams to enhance system reliability and architecture.
- Participate in on call support for critical production environments.
- Support ITIL aligned incident, change, and problem management processes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
- Strong hands on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platforms.
- Extensive experience managing Kubernetes environments, including AKS and Rancher RKE2.
- Strong automation and scripting capabilities using Python, Go, and Bash.
- Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, and Ansible.
- Strong knowledge of GitOps methodologies and modern CI/CD practices.
- Experience with enterprise monitoring, observability, and incident management.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in air gapped or highly regulated enterprise environments.
- Knowledge of container security and private registry management.
- Exposure to large scale cloud transformation and modernization programs.
- Experience operating within Agile, Scrum, and ITIL environments.
- Familiarity with enterprise governance, risk, compliance, and audit requirements.
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