Sr Engineer - Cloud Reliability Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 24, 2026.
Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) – Azure
About Searce:
Searce is an AI-native, engineering-led modern technology consultancy that empowers
clients to futurify their businesses by delivering real, intelligent business outcomes. As a
trusted partner for over 3,000 clients globally, Searce specializes in cloud modernization,
data engineering, applied AI, and robust cloud platform security. Driven by a "HAPPIER"
cultural mindset and our proprietary evlos problem-solving framework, we eliminate
bureaucratic fluff to build working prototypes fast and scale enterprise production
environments intelligently. We don't just fix systems; we leverage multi-cloud technologies
to transform client operations into distinct competitive advantages.
Position Overview:
We are looking for a high-caliber Senior or Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) to
architect, secure, and stabilize next-generation hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Operating at the intersection of infrastructure design, security compliance, and production
operations, you will serve as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) across GCP, Azure,
and AWS.
Whether optimizing a microservice mesh on GKE, tuning autoscaling on AKS, or driving a
massive disaster recovery drill across AWS regions, your focus will be absolute reliability. For
the Lead path, you will couple this deep engineering toolkit with stakeholder management
and mentorship to drive an elite operational culture.
Experience & Level Expectation:
Years of Experience: 3 to 10 years of intensive, hands-on production operations
experience in a dedicated DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineering, or SRE role.
Associate level (3-5 Years): Expected to show flawless execution of IaC, advanced
triaging of infrastructure failures, and ownership of the CI/CD and deployment
lifecycles.
Intermediate level (5-10 Years): Expected to take architectural ownership, serve as
primary Incident Commander for complex outages, design cross-cloud governance
frameworks, and act as a reliable bridge between technical teams and client
leadership.
Key Responsibilities & Role Expectations:
Multi-Cloud Platforms & Orchestration: Design, configure, and maintain
production-grade Kubernetes clusters across major platforms (AKS).
Manage advanced network routing, service meshes (e.g., Istio), and multi-tenant
isolation.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & GitOps: Build declarative, enterprise-grade, reusable
infrastructure components using Terraform or Crossplane. Standardize automated
environment provisioning to eliminate configuration drift across multi-branch
environments.
Incident Management & Reliability (SRE): Own and optimize the production on-call
rotation. Lead rapid mitigation strategies for Sev-1/Sev-2 system outages, reducing
Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) through centralized log and metric correlation.
Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Facilitate rigorous, blameless post-incident reviews to
identify core architectural vulnerabilities and establish long-term fixes preventing
recurrence.
Lifecycle, Patching & Upgrades: Plan and execute zero-downtime cluster upgrades,
operating system patching strategies (Linux/Windows), database lifecycle updates,
and multi-region Disaster Recovery (DR) failover drills.
Core Core Operations & Legacy Integration: Manage enterprise-level hybrid
networking architecture (VPCs, Firewalls, Load Balancers, DNS routing, and DHCP
configurations) while effectively connecting cloud native services to legacy
infrastructures like Active Directory.
Security & Governance: Embed Zero Trust policies, secure secrets management
(Secrets Manager/Key Vault), and continuous vulnerability patching into the
automated SDLC pipeline.
Required Technical Skills:
- Microsoft Azure: Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Azure Active Directory, Azure Update Management.
- Containers & Orchestration
- Production-level management of GKE, AKS, and EKS.
- Advanced mastery of Docker, Helm, Kubernetes StatefulSets, Pod Disruption
Skills
Windows Azure, AKS, DevOps, Microsoft Windows Azure