Senior Site Reliability Engineer
At a glance
Senior Site Reliability role at Zipdev. Remote, Brazil · full-time.
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What you'll do
- Set up observability with Datadog or Azure monitoring tools, then shape service objectives, alerts and synthetic checks
- Join PagerDuty incident coverage, handle escalations and document incidents as they unfold
- Write operational guides for response, rollback and service recovery
- Help automate blue-green or canary releases and build infrastructure as code
- Support Azure SQL and Cosmos DB performance and cost work with US engineers during shared hours
What you bring
- At least five years in SRE, DevOps or cloud infrastructure work
- Strong practical Azure skills, including Azure SQL, Cosmos DB and another listed Azure service
- Hands-on CI/CD and release automation experience, including Jenkins
- Experience with observability and incident response, plus familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
- You have worked with HIPAA requirements and protected health information under a BAA, with audited, least-privilege access
Who this fits
This senior, production-owning role suits an experienced Azure SRE comfortable building systems rather than working a ticket queue. You must be based in Latin America, communicate in English with US colleagues, and overlap with US Eastern or Mountain hours. PagerDuty coverage for high-severity incidents is a required shared rotation. A healthcare-standard background check is required before production access.
From the employer
We're hiring a Senior SRE based in Latin America to work alongside our US-based engineering team, building out observability, on-call coverage, and deployment automation for a client with strict compliance requirements. We're specifically looking for someone with deep Azure expertise, see below.
This is a full-time role with real production ownership, not a support or ticket-queue position.
What You'll Do
- Support observability tooling implementation (Datadog and/or Azure Monitor/App Insights) and help build SLO definitions, alert rules, and synthetic checks
- Participate in a PagerDuty on-call rotation, including escalation handling and incident documentation
- Build and maintain operational runbooks for incident response, rollback, and recovery scenarios
- Contribute to deployment automation work (blue/green or canary patterns) and Infrastructure as Code
- Work across Azure SQL and Cosmos DB environments, supporting performance and cost optimization initiatives
- Collaborate closely with US-based engineers during overlapping working hours
Requirements
- 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Container Apps, App Service)
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, including Jenkins
- Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Azure Monitor, or similar) and on- call/incident response
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
- Strong written and spoken English; you'll be in daily communication with US-based team members and, at times, client stakeholders
- Availability with meaningful overlap with US Eastern or Mountain time zones
- Experience working in HIPAA-regulated environments, including handling PHI under a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) and working within least-privilege, audited access controls
- Willingness to complete a healthcare-industry-standard background check prior to production access
On-Call Expectations
- This role includes participation in a pager-based on-call rotation via PagerDuty, covering SEV- 1/SEV-2 incidents on a shared schedule with the SRE team. This is a core, required part of the role, not an occasional ask.
Benefits
- Work remotely
- Vacation: 10 business days a year
- Holidays: 5 National Holidays a year
- Company Holidays: 5 Company Holidays a year (Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Zipdev Day)
- Parental Leave
- Health Care Reimbursement
- Active Lifestyle Reimbursement
- Quarterly Home Office Reimbursement
- Payroll Deduction Purchase Plans
- Longevity Bonus
- Continuous Learning Bonus
- Access to Training and Professional Development Platforms
- Did we mention it's REMOTE?!!
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