Site Reliability Engineer

We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, cost, and hygiene of our cloud environments. You will be the hands-on owner of how we deploy, promote, and operate our product labs across dev, test/staging, prod, and demonstrating on Microsoft Azure, with a clear mandate to lead migration to AWS. This is a test/staging and product demonstration of who has lived in both Azure and AWS as a DevOps/SRE practitioner and treats environment stability, cost discipline, and clean release paths as first-class product outcomes.

The core responsibilities for the job include the following:

Cloud environments and reliability:

• Own stability and availability across Azure (and later AWS) environments: dev, test/staging, prod, and demo.
• Drive environment hygiene: cleanup of unused resources, stale deployments, orphaned storage, and configuration drift.
• Establish and enforce right-sizing so capacity matches demand and utilization stays high, minimizing waste without sacrificing reliability.

Cost and COGS:

• Own cloud COGS for Azure today and AWS as we migrate.
• Continuously review spend, utilization, and reservation/savings opportunities; make cost a measurable operating metric, not an afterthought.

CI/CD, promotion, and release management:

• Own GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and workflows end-to-end.
• Own promotion and release management from development through production (and demo), with clear gates, auditable releases, and safe rollback paths.
• Build once, promote consistently, and keep the release process boring, repeatable, and secure.

Azure-AWS migration:

• Lead the eventual migration from Azure to AWS, including architecture, cutover.
• planning, parity across environments, and operational readiness.
• Bring strong dual-cloud fluency so migration reduces risk instead of introducing it.

What Success Looks Like:

• Environments are stable, recoverable, and boring in the best way.
• Spend and utilization are visible, justified, and trending in the right direction.
• Releases move through environments predictably via owned pipelines, not ad hoc deploys.
• Azure stays healthy now; AWS readiness improves steadily toward a clean cutover.

Requirements:

• Hands-on Azure and AWS experience as a DevOps / SRE engineer (not only architecture slides).
• Proven ownership of production cloud environments, including availability, incident response hygiene, and operational runbooks.
• Strong CI/CD background, ideally with GitHub Actions.
• Experience with release/promotion workflows across multiple environments.
• Bias toward cost-aware engineering: tagging, right-sizing, cleanup, and utilization accountability.
• Comfort leading a cloud migration while keeping current platforms running.
• Clear communicator who can set standards and enforce them without slowing the team down.

Nice to Have:

• Background in cybersecurity, security tooling, or regulated/high-trust environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation/CDK).
• Observability, FinOps practices, and container/Kubernetes operations.
• Experience running customer-facing demo environments alongside production.