Site reliability engineer ii

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE II) Own availability, latency, performance, and efficiency for Zafin’s Saa S on Azure. You’ll define and enforce reliability standards, lead high-impact projects, mentor engineers, and eliminate toil at scale. Reports to the Director of SRE. What you’ll do SLIs/SLOs & contracts: Define customer-centric SLIs/SLOs for Tier-0/Tier-1 services. Publish, review quarterly, and align teams to them. Error budgeting (policy & tooling): Run the error-budget policy with multi-window, multi-burn-rate alerts; clear runbooks and paging thresholds. Gate changes by budget status (freeze/relax rules) wired into CI/CD. Maintain SLO/EB dashboards (Azure Monitor, Grafana/Prometheus, App Insights). Run weekly SLO reviews with engineering/product. Drive roadmap tradeoffs when budgets are at risk; land reliability epics. Incidents without drama: Lead SEV1/SEV2, own comms, run blameless postmortems, and make corrective actions stick. Engineer reliability in: Multi-AZ/region patterns (active-active/DR), PDBs/Pod Topology Spread, HPA/VPA/KEDA, resilient rollout/rollback. AKS at scale: Harden clusters (network, identity, policy), optimize node/pod density, ingress (AGIC/Nginx); mesh optional. Observability that works: Metrics/traces/logs with Azure Monitor/App Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus/Grafana, Open Telemetry. Alert on symptoms, not noise. Ia C & policy: Terraform/Bicep modules, Git Ops (Flux/Argo), policy-as-code (Azure Policy/OPA Gatekeeper). No snowflakes. CI/CD reliability: Azure Dev Ops/Git Hub Actions with canary/blue-green, progressive delivery, auto-rollback, Key Vault-backed secrets. Capacity & performance: Load testing, right-sizing, autoscaling; partner with Fin Ops to reduce spend without hurting SLOs. DR you can trust: Define RTO/RPO, test backups/restore, run game days/chaos drills, validate ASR and multi-region failover. Secure by default: Entra ID (Azure AD), managed identities, Key Vault rotation, VNets/NSGs/Private Link, shift-left checks in CI. Reduce toil: Automate recurring ops, build self-service runbooks/chatops, publish golden paths for product teams. Customer escalations: Be the technical owner on calls; communicate tradeoffs and recovery plans with authority. Document to scale: Architectures, runbooks, postmortems, SLIs/SLOs—kept current and discoverable. (If applicable) Streaming/ETL reliability: Apply SRE practices (SLOs, backpressure, idempotency, replay) to Ni Fi/Flink/Kafka/Redpanda data flows. Minimum qualifications Bachelor’s in CS/Engineering (or equivalent experience). 12+ years in production ops/platform/SRE, including 5+ years on Azure . Postgre SQL (must-have): Deep operational expertise incl. HA/DR, logical/physical replication, performance tuning (indexes/EXPLAIN/ANALYZE, pg_stat_statements), autovacuum strategy, partitioning, backup/restore testing, and connection pooling (pg Bouncer). Prefer experience with Azure Database for Postgre SQL – Flexible Server . Azure core: AKS (must-have) ; Front Door/App Gateway, API Management, VNets/NSGs/Private Link, Storage, Key Vault, Redis, Service Bus/Event Hubs. Observability: Azure Monitor/App Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus/Grafana; SLO design and error-budget operations. Ia C/automation: Terraform and/or Bicep; Power Shell and Python; Git Ops (Flux/Argo). Pipelines in Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions. Proven incident leadership at scale, blameless postmortems, and SLO/error-budget governance with change gating. Mentorship and crisp written/verbal communication. Preferred (nice to have) Apache Ni Fi , Apache Flink , Apache Kafka or Redpanda (self-managed on AKS or managed equivalents); schema management, exactly-once semantics, backpressure, dead-letter/replay patterns. Azure Solutions Architect Expert , CKA/CKAD. ITSM (Service Now), on-call tooling (Pager Duty/Opsgenie). Compliance/Sec Ops (SOC 2, ISO 27001), policy-as-code, workload identity. Open Telemetry, e BPF tooling, or service mesh. Multi-tenant Saa S and cost optimization at scale.