Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps

Alphatec Spine • Carlsbad, CA

1h • $135,000 - $150,000

About The Position

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for the availability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency of the Informatix cloud platform. The role focuses on reducing manual operational work (toil), automating system reliability, and ensuring production-grade observability. The ideal candidate is a systems-focused engineer passionate about uptime, incident response, and continuous improvement through engineering solutions.

The position contributes to the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 uptime for production systems and promotes operational excellence through data-driven reliability practices. It includes monitoring and improving service-level objectives and indicators, maintaining observability tooling, analyzing incidents, automating operational tasks, and designing reliable systems.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
• At least 5 years in production engineering roles with direct ownership of critical systems.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or Azure Monitor.
• Solid background in incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including containerized services (AKS), networking, and storage.
• Proficiency with service mesh management tools such as Istio.
• Strong automation and scripting experience, such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Experience implementing SLIs, SLOs, operational dashboards, and error budgets.
• Comfort designing for resiliency, failover, and graceful degradation.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on transparency and learning.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, HITRUST, or IEC 62304.
• A BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Microsoft certifications.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary contributor to the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 uptime for production systems.
• Proactively monitor and continuously improve SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs across critical services.
• Develop and maintain observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing, including tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.
• Conduct postmortems and root cause analyses, and implement fixes to prevent repeat incidents.
• Identify and eliminate manual operational toil through scripting and automation.
• Design and maintain automated incident detection and response systems.
• Establish and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and escalation protocols for system support.
• Contribute to chaos testing and failure injection to proactively uncover weaknesses.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence through data-driven reliability practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed