Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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) - 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?!! One of our core values at Zipdev is "Be authentic." that's why we encourage you to answer the application form in your own words; we are interested in getting to know you, not a digital assistant. Wondering how our remote environment or our payment method work? We've put together some helpful answers in our FAQs at the bottom our our career site. Take a look and let us know if you have any other questions! Originally posted on Himalayas