Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps

Alphatec Spine, Inc.
Carlsbad, CA, United States
28 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$135,000.0 - $150,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Systems Engineering Microsoft Azure Bash Shell DevOps Failover Fault Tolerance Python (Programming Language) Uptime Windows PowerShell Reliability Engineering Prometheus Datadog
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Data Logging Cloud Platform System Cloud Monitoring Istio Grafana Reliability of Systems Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Information Technology Bicep Terraform

Job description

  • 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 robust observability tooling including logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g., Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus).
  • Proactively conduct postmortems and root cause analysis; 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.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
  • Expertise in monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Azure Monitor).
  • Solid background in incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
  • Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including containerized services (AKS), networking, storage, and proficiency service mesh management tools (Istio)
  • Strong automation and scripting experience (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
  • Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
  • Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, operational dashboards, and error budgets.
  • Comfortable designing for resiliency, failover, and graceful degradation.
  • Knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, HITRUST, IEC 62304) is a plus.
  • Strong written and verbal communication with a focus on transparency and learning.

Education and/or Experience:

  • BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field preferred.
  • 5+ years in production engineering roles with direct ownership of critical systems.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations:

  • Microsoft certifications a plus, At this time, ATEC Spine does not sponsor employment visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship.

Benefits & conditions

Alphatec Spine, Inc. complies with state and federal wage and hour laws and compensation depends upon candidate’s qualifications, education, skill set, years of experience, and internal equity. $135,000 - $150,000 Full-Time Salary

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