Site Reliability Engineer (43259)

About the job I am looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join a cloud-native platform team focused on automation, reliability, and secure release processes. You will design and implement tooling for automated patch adoption, improve CI/CD validation workflows, and help ensure stable operation of Kubernetes-based services. The role requires strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Azure, automation, and production-grade cloud environments. 🚀 Project automation and reliability improvements for a shared Kubernetes platform design and implementation of tooling for automated patch adoption improving release safety through validation and rollout checks in CI/CD pipelines building validation mechanisms across Kubernetes, Azure, logs, and metrics integration of patch validation into internal release workflows support for patching of platform components (external-dns, external-secrets, cert-manager, ingress controllers) collaboration with engineering teams to ensure scalable, repeatable, and low-friction upgrade processes contribution to observability, monitoring, and operational simplification 🎯 Skills 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling experience with CI/CD, release engineering, and production rollout practices experience with public cloud (preferably Microsoft Azure) programming/scripting skills in Python or Go experience with observability (logs, metrics, monitoring, health checks) background in maintaining shared platform components and managing lifecycle/patching 💡 Nice to have experience with platform component upgrades and dependency management knowledge of patch governance and release validation strategies experience working in large-scale enterprise cloud environments familiarity with tools like external-dns, cert-manager, or ingress controllers