Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Greystar • Columbia, SC

96d

About The Position

We are seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead the technical strategy and greenfield build of our Azure platform. This is a hands-on DevOps role with a strong focus on Azure system maintenance and tracking. You’ll be setting up new environments, automating operations, and keeping services reliable, observable, secure, and cost-efficient at scale. This is a unique opportunity to establish a solid technical foundation and influence the direction of our technology stack.

Requirements

• 5+ years in software engineering, network engineering, DevOps, or systems administration.
• 3+ years operating large-scale cloud services in Azure.
• Strong DevOps skills: Terraform/Bicep, GitOps/CI-CD, and scripting (Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell).
• Deep AKS operations (Helm, upgrades, HPA/KEDA, backups) and Azure networking (VNets/peering, Private Link, App Gateway/WAF, Front Door/DNS).
• Observability expertise (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics/KQL, App Insights, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Proven incident management, change control, and documentation/runbook craft.
• Comfort building net-new systems in a fast-moving, startup-like environment.

Nice To Haves

• Takes initiative and drives projects from conception to completion.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
• Background in investment management or multifamily real estate.

Responsibilities

• Build & Deploy: Azure landing zones, AKS, networking, and CI/CD from scratch (Terraform/Bicep, GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps).
• Operate & Scale: Patching, upgrades, backup/DR, inventory/tagging, drift detection, and config/state tracking (e.g., Azure Policy, Resource Graph).
• Reliability & Observability: Define SLOs/error budgets; instrument metrics/logs/traces with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana; create actionable alerts and runbooks.
• Influence the product architecture and roadmap to ensure customer-experienced supportability is a key consideration.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams on building and enhancing tooling and automation solutions for faster resolution of issues impacting SLOs.
• Collaborate with customers to understand their pain points around Supportability and SLO attainment and formulate strategies for addressing recurring issues.

Benefits

• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision, and Disability & Life insurance benefits.
• Low (free basic) employee Medical costs for employee-only coverage; costs discounted after 3 and 5 years of service.
• Generous Paid Time off: 15 days of vacation, 4 personal days, 10 sick days, and 11 paid holidays.
• Birthday off after 1 year of service.
• Additional vacation accrued with tenure.
• 6-Week Paid Sabbatical after 10 years of service (and every 5 years thereafter).
• 401(k) with Company Match up to 6% of pay after 6 months of service.
• Paid Parental Leave and lifetime Fertility Benefit reimbursement up to $10,000.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, Pet Insurance and Legal Plans.
• Charitable giving program and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees