Site Reliability Engineer Lead

Introduction
In this role you’ll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers) where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world.​ Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You’ll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role you’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm investigate ideas outside of your role and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
IBM Application Consultants work directly with our clients on key initiatives. You will have the opportunity to build an in-depth understanding of their business issues and implement organizational strategies that drive adoption of change. We are looking for experts who can build credibility and trust with our clients and provide knowledge that addresses individual and unique business needs.

• Lead and manage the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to ensure high availability reliability and performance of systems on the Azure platform.
• Design and implement strategies for monitoring alerting and incident response.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to establish SRE best practices and optimize system reliability.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning configuration and deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Drive root cause analysis and implement solutions for production issues.
• Develop and maintain SLOs SLIs and SLAs to improve service reliability and performance; i mplement and oversee CI/CD pipelines for streamlined software delivery.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• +10 years in a DevOps/SRE role ideally in Azure Cloud environments and cloud-native architectures such as microservices.
• Expertise in Azure cloud services including AKS Azure DevOps Azure Monitor and App Services; s trong knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization technologies (Docker).
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages (e.g. Python Bash PowerShell).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with logging monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Splunk ELK); s trong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills in cloud-based environments.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems;
– k nowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
– familiarity with Azure Policy and governance practices.
– expertise in database performance tuning (e.g. Azure SQL Cosmos DB).
• Leadership experience in managing cross-functional teams.
• Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) .
• Exposure to AI/ML workloads on Azure; experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments; knowledge of serverless architecture (e.g. Azure Functions).