Genesis10 is currently seeking an Azure Site Reliability Engineer Lead for a hybrid position (3 days onsite required) with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC, Jersey City, NJ or Plano, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity. The Azure Site Reliability Engineer Lead provides technical leadership for the Azure Platform SRE function, guiding reliability engineering priorities, operational readiness, automation strategy, observability maturity, and production support execution. This role combines senior hands-on engineering with leadership across incident management, problem management, observability, platform automation, and cross-team execution. The ideal candidate can lead by influence, organize technical work, mentor engineers, and represent SRE priorities across enterprise stakeholder groups.
Responsibilities: - Provide technical leadership for Azure Platform SRE priorities, including reliability engineering, observability, automation, incident response, and problem management
- Lead execution of SRE workstreams for canary automation, platform dashboards, alert tuning, monitoring modernization, resiliency improvements, and operational readiness
- Coordinate SRE execution across Azure foundational services, workload enablement, GenAI platform services, and core SRE responsibilities
- Partner with platform engineering and operations teams to improve the handoff between build, run, support, escalation, and long-term remediation functions
- Drive toil reduction through automation, self-healing patterns, improved runbooks, standard remediation workflows, and CI/CD-based platform changes
- Lead incident response for significant Azure platform events and ensure follow-up actions become durable engineering improvements
- Own or coordinate post-incident reviews, root-cause analysis, recurring-issue analysis, and problem-management backlog creation
- Guide observability strategy across Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Dynatrace, dashboards, alerting, service health views, and platform telemetry
- Lead reviews of alert effectiveness, threshold quality, dashboard coverage, and monitoring gaps
- Provide technical direction for Terraform module improvements, reusable automation patterns, platform health checks, and operational tooling
- Mentor SRE II and SRE III engineers and establish engineering standards for reliability, automation, documentation, and production support
- Represent Azure SRE in cross-functional forums with platform engineering, platform operations, security, governance, architecture, product, and application teams
- Define team-level priorities, backlog items, delivery sequencing, and measurable reliability outcomes
- Support leadership reporting on reliability progress, operational risk, automation impact, and production-readiness status
Requirements: - 5+ years of experience in platform, systems, or infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on automation and integration
- Proficiency in SRE best practices; Proven ability to reduce toil and improve observability of the environment
- Experience with automation and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible or similar), and scripting with golang, Python, or equivalent
- Experience with supporting enterprise service mesh platforms
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts and CI/CD pipelines supporting automated builds, validation, and deployments
- Experience integrating provisioning workflows with platform services such as virtualization, networking, identity, monitoring, and configuration management systems
- Strong focus on testing and reliability, including automated integration/validation testing and troubleshooting of complex workflows
- Experience with Microsoft Azure and DevOps
Desired skills: - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Familiarity with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with data-driven decision making
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Prior experience mentoring or leading engineering teams
Pay range: $60.24 - $68.24 per hour
Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position. If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply! Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.
For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10: - Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
- The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
- Behavioral Health Platform
- Medical, Dental, Vision
- Health Savings Account
- Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- 401K
- Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.
Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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