SRE Cloud Engineer- Azure

Merative•Mississauga, ON

2d•CA$87,835 - CA$131,753

About The Position

Merge by Merative offers imaging solutions for radiology, cardiology, and enterprise imaging, trusted by major U.S. health systems. Their cloud-native Imaging Suite provides solutions for VNA, PACS, Enterprise Image Viewing, and Workflow Orchestration, alongside offerings in Cardiology, Hemodynamic Monitoring, and Digital Pathology. This role involves building and maintaining a new platform on Microsoft Azure, focusing on automation, standardization, and operational excellence.

Requirements

5+ years in Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a similar production operations role.
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure in production environments.
Hands-on experience with Terraform.
Strong scripting/automation skills (Python preferred) with real operational automation examples.
Proven incident ownership end-to-end (detect → triage → fix → prevent) with clear communication.
Hands-on monitoring/observability experience in Azure (logs, dashboards, alert tuning / noise reduction).
Strong Linux and/or Windows Server administration skills, including patching and lifecycle activities.
Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, firewalls).
Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to stay calm under pressure.

Nice To Haves

Kubernetes and AKS operational experience.
Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, KQL; Prometheus/Grafana is a plus.
Synthetic monitoring experience for login/API/workflow validation with alerting.
AI-assisted ops experience for troubleshooting/automation (with strong validation habits).
Azure certifications are a plus (e.g., Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer).

Responsibilities

Build and deliver a new platform on Microsoft Azure; continuously improve it through automation and standardization.
Own day-to-day operations, monitoring, and support of the Azure environment (compute, storage, networking, security).
Partner with development teams to ensure safe, stable releases with strong monitoring and tested rollback readiness.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to provision and manage resources consistently across environments.
Build and maintain automation (Python preferred) to reduce manual work, improve repeatability, and increase reliability.
Participate in a rotating on-call schedule and troubleshoot and resolve issues across availability, performance, networking, and security; drive follow-ups to prevent recurrence.
Support Kubernetes/AKS operations and troubleshooting (pods/logs, probes, scaling, resource limits, node issues).
Improve observability by reducing alert noise, building dashboards, and adding synthetic checks for key user workflows.
Perform application and OS lifecycle tasks (patching, upgrades, maintenance, vulnerability remediation, and operational readiness).
Document designs, configurations, runbooks, and operational procedures to enable consistent on-call response.