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# Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps

- **Company:** Alphatec Spine, Inc.
- **Location:** Carlsbad, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $150,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, DevOps, Failover, Fault Tolerance, Python (Programming Language), Uptime, Windows PowerShell, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Datadog, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Cloud Monitoring, Istio, Grafana, Reliability of Systems, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Bicep, Terraform
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c910bd858b261d0c

## About the Role

* 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.

## 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.