Site Reliability Engineer w/Azure - REMOTE

We currently have a career opportunity for a Site Reliability Engineer w/Azure in our Cloud and API Practice. While our headquarters location is St. Louis, MO, this position is remote and can be based anywhere within the United States and will be working CT and ET zones.

Job Overview:

Candidates for the Site Reliability Engineer w/ Azure position typically major in computer science, or a computer related field, and have 7+ years of production workload management experience in a related IT field. As an SRE solution consultant you will work with a small team of DevSecOps engineers to deliver infrastructure as a managed service for a strategic Perficient account. In this role, you will identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities within compute, network, storage and database resources running in Azure Cloud. You will implement process improvements in various domains including: solution platform automation, source code iteration and improvement, continuous integration, observability instrumentation, and infrastructure as code. You will help design and implement SRE related tools and processes within our client’s cloud infrastructure for both internal and external customers.

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities identified within current state infrastructure.
• Plan migration paths to future state infrastructure using Azure best practices for containerized workloads.
• Provide direction to project engineers to implement SRE platform requirements
• Interact and support cross-functional teams to architect, design, develop, test, and implement error budgets with instrumented event capture for observability
• Architect, design, develop, implement, test, iterate and support Service Level
• Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Be precise in helping organizations determine if an SLA should be internal or public-facing, with appropriate accountability and validity.
• Demonstrate knowledge in various DevOps domains (Agile, source control management, pipeline automation, IaaC, etc.)
• Implement Proof-of-Concept projects to validate new SRE solutions
• Build templates, workflows, and repeatable solutions for various SRE use cases as directed
• Implement provided architectural solutions/designs in various SRE disciplines
• Collaborate with client team members to mitigate or eliminate technical dependencies, issues, and risks
• Support common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams
• Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs.
• Be an effective communicator at all levels of the business: c-suite, directors and managers, as well as key individual contributors.
• Deliver with positivity and professionalism consistently.
• Lead daily stand-ups and QBR (quarterly business reviews).

We are looking for colleagues with engaging personalities, a passion for excellence in technology, a problem-solving nature, and these other qualifications:

• An expert-level understanding of SRE, DevSecOps, and traditional systems administration domains including Source Code Management, Continuous Integration, Deployment Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud architecture, observability, error budgets, etc.
• Must have strong experience with DevSecOps tools like Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform, ELK, Jira or other alternatives
• MUST have previous hands-on Hybrid Cloud experience
• MUST have hands on experience with Azure
• Experience with SRE tooling (openTelemetry, APM)
• Experience with code review and refactoring. Specific languages are less important than knowing how to collaborate with experts in that language to deliver an optimal refactor or feature.
• Strong understanding of application release management within a complex environment