Jobs / ALPHATEC SPINE, INC.
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps
ALPHATEC SPINE, INC. · Carlsbad, CA, United States
Carlsbad, CA, United StatesFull timeExp: 5+ yrs135,000-150,000 USD/yearlyOnsite
Remuneration
$135,000–$150,000 per year
Location
Carlsbad, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
The position does not sponsor employment visas; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
Job summary
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer ensures the availability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency of a cloud platform by automating reliability work and reducing operational toil. The role includes participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation, improving SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs, investigating incidents, and building observability and response systems using Microsoft Azure, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Prometheus.
Qualifications
- At least 5 years of experience in site reliability engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, or production engineering.
- Experience owning critical production systems.
- Expertise with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, or Azure Monitor.
- Strong background in incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
- Knowledge of Azure, including AKS, networking, storage, and Istio service mesh management.
- Strong scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Familiarity with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
- Experience implementing SLIs, SLOs, operational dashboards, and error budgets.
- Ability to design for resiliency, failover, and graceful degradation.
- Knowledge of SOC 2, HITRUST, or IEC 62304 compliance frameworks is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication focused on transparency and learning.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 production uptime.
- Monitor and improve SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs across critical services.
- Develop and maintain logging, metrics, and tracing observability tools.
- Conduct postmortems and root cause analyses, and implement preventative fixes.
- Reduce operational toil through scripting and automation.
- Design and maintain automated incident detection and response systems.
- Maintain runbooks, playbooks, and escalation protocols.
- Contribute to chaos testing and failure injection.
- Promote data-driven reliability practices and operational excellence.
Skills
AKSARM TemplatesAzureAzure MonitorBashBicepGrafanaIstioOpenTelemetryPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraformElasticsearchKibana
Certifications
Microsoft certifications preferred
Degrees
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related tec
Languages
PythonBashPowerShell
Work schedule
24/7 on-call rotation
Relocation
No