Site Reliability Engineer

The Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) is responsible for ensuring the availability, scalability, performance, and resiliency of enterprise cloud platforms across Azure, and AWS environments.

This role combines software engineering, automation, and infrastructure expertise to operationalize reliability engineering practices, drive cloud-native resiliency patterns, and enable business-critical applications to meet defined SLAs, SLOs, and compliance requirements.

The SRE partners with engineering, security, and operations teams to implement observability, incident response frameworks, and reliability automation, aligning with enterprise architecture standards and regulatory expectations.

Key Accountabilities/Deliverables:

• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant architectures using cloud-native services (microservices, containers, serverless)
• Define and operationalize SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical applications and platforms
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform) to ensure repeatable and compliant deployments
• Develop automated remediation and self-healing capabilities to reduce MTTR and improve system resilience
• Establish enterprise-level monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks (Datadog, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Azure Application Insights)
• Drive cost optimization (FinOps) initiatives, including resource utilization tracking and rightsizing recommendations
• Support DR/BCP strategy execution, including failover testing and regional isolation validation
• Collaborate with application teams to embed reliability engineering practices into CI/CD pipelines

• Strong expertise in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architecture patterns (microservices, containers (Azure Container Apps/AKS/EKS), serverless (Azure Functions/AWS Lambda))
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep)
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Azure Monitor, Azure Application Insights)
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices
• Expertise in system reliability concepts:
• SLI / SLO / SLA management
• Chaos engineering
• High availability & fault isolationFamiliarity with security, compliance, and regulatory controls (SOC, ISO, cloud security frameworks)

Experience:

• 5+ years experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering
• Proven experience supporting mission-critical production systems at scale
• Hands-on experience with incident management and on-call operations
• Experience implementing automated monitoring, alerting, and remediation frameworks
• Exposure to regulated environments (insurance, financial services) preferred
• Demonstrated ability to work across cross-functional architecture, engineering, and operations teams, Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over work authorization sponsorship now or in the future for this position.

Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Employee assistance program, At Core Specialty, you will receive a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development and advancement. We offer medical, dental, vision, and life insurances; short and long-term disability; a Company-match of 100% of a 6% contribution 401(k) plan; an Employee Assistance Plan; Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Health Reimbursement Account, and a wellness program