Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps

📋 Job Overview

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) will be responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency of the Informatix cloud platform. This role is focused on reducing manual operations work (toil), automating system reliability, and ensuring production-grade observability. The ideal candidate is a systems-focused engineer who is passionate about uptime, incident response, and continuous improvement through engineering solutions.

🏢 About Alphatec Spine, Inc.

Alphatec Spine, Inc. is a company committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state or local laws.

🎯 The Role

Serve as a primary contributor to the on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 uptime for production systems. Proactively monitor and continuously improve SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs across critical services. Develop and maintain robust observability tooling including logging, metrics, and tracing (e.g., Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus).

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Proactively conduct postmortems and root cause analysis; implement fixes to prevent repeat incidents.
• Identify and eliminate manual operational toil through scripting and automation.
• Design and maintain automated incident detection and response systems.
• Establish and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and escalation protocols for system support.
• Contribute to chaos testing and failure injection to proactively uncover weaknesses.
• Promote a culture of operational excellence through data-driven reliability practices.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps roles.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability platforms (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, Azure Monitor).
• Solid background in incident response, root cause analysis, and on-call rotations.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure, including containerized services (AKS), networking, storage, and proficiency service mesh management tools (Istio).
• Strong automation and scripting experience (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Experience implementing SLIs/SLOs, operational dashboards, and error budgets.
• Comfortable designing for resiliency, failover, and graceful degradation.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, HITRUST, IEC 62304) is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication with a focus on transparency and learning.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field preferred.
• 5+ years in production engineering roles with direct ownership of critical systems.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Microsoft certifications a plus

🎁 Benefits

Salary Range: $135,000 - $150,000 Full-Time Salary

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

At this time, ATEC Spine does not sponsor employment visas for this position. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employer sponsorship. For roles based in the United States that require access to hospital facilities, must be eligible for and maintain credentials at all required hospitals, including meeting any applicable physical requirements or vaccination requirements (including the COVID-19 vaccine, as applicable).