Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – 90% Remote – Atlanta, GA.

Charles Simon Associates is partnered with a leading global business who are building out a world-class Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function. We are recruiting on their behalf for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join the team in Atlanta, Georgia.

This isn’t a “keep the lights on” position; it’s a high-impact role focused on driving automation, reliability, and performance across distributed, cloud-native systems that power critical services worldwide.

The Offer:

Salary: Up to $140,000 (DOE) + benefits.

Location: Atlanta, GA/Hybrid (onsite once a month).

Start: ASAP.

If you do not meet the 3 criteria below, do not apply; you will not be successful:

• All candidates MUST be U.S. citizens to apply for this role due to travel requirements.
• All candidates MUST have worked as a Site Reliability Engineer in multiple roles.
• All candidates MUST have extensive Azure experience.

Why join?

• You’ll be part of a forward-thinking engineering culture where automation and reliability come first.
• You’ll work on cutting-edge tech stacks (Azure, AKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, IaC).
• You’ll influence how reliability, resilience, and observability are built into systems from the ground up.
• You’ll join a global business that invests heavily in SRE and sees it as business-critical not a bolt-on.

What you’ll do:

• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs that set the standard for performance and reliability.
• Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) for scalable, auditable deployments.
• Previous experience of deploying functional apps using Terraform and AKS.
• Deploy and operate Kubernetes & AKS environments at scale.
• Automate everything possible with PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Integrate and optimise observability & monitoring (Datadog preferred, but Grafana, Azure Insights, and Log Analytics are also in play).
• Lead incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement cycles.
• Optimise cost, capacity, and performance across cloud workloads.
• Drive resilience through chaos engineering and recovery testing.

What we’re looking for:

• Strong hands-on experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
• Deep expertise with Terraform and IaC in live production environments.
• Proven experience with Kubernetes / AKS.
• Strong scripting background (PowerShell, Python, or Bash).
• Monitoring/observability knowledge with tools like Datadog, Grafana, Azure App Insights, Log Analytics.
• Solid understanding of web applications & distributed systems.

Bonus points if you bring:

• Knowledge of Microservices Architecture.
• Experience working in Kanban environments.

If you’re the type of engineer who thrives on solving complex reliability challenges, loves automation, and wants to shape how SRE is done in a global business, this role is for you.