Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Azure Observability

About the role

Coforge is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on application observability and readiness in Azure. The role is remote and requires 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations or related fields, with at least 1 year of hands-on work with DBT, Databricks and SQL.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to design monitoring, alerting, dashboards and APM instrumentation across applications and services.
• Lead the implementation, configuration and optimization of APM solutions.
• Apply observability best practices with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, New Relic and Log Analytics (KQL).
• Enable code-level instrumentation, distributed tracing and structured logging to improve application visibility and reliability.
• Design and maintain application-level dashboards and operational health metrics.
• Define SLIs, SLOs and alerting strategies based on latency, error rates, traffic and resource saturation, and continuously improve them from production insights and incidents.
• Take part in production readiness reviews and support incident analysis and post-incident improvements.

Required profile

• Strong experience supporting and operating applications in Microsoft Azure IaaS environments.
• Hands-on experience with application observability, monitoring and reliability engineering.
• Mandatory 1+ year of hands-on experience with DBT, Databricks and SQL.
• Experience with APM platforms such as Application Insights, New Relic or similar, and with dashboards using Azure Monitor, Application Insights and Log Analytics (KQL).
• Familiarity with CI/CD environments including Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures and distributed application systems.
• Practical SRE mindset with incident analysis, root cause investigation and proactive problem prevention.
• Strong verbal and written English, able to work with global teams.

Preferred requirements

• Scripting and automation with PowerShell and/or Bash.
• Knowledge of scalability, availability and resilience patterns in modern cloud environments.
• Experience driving production readiness and operational excellence initiatives.