Senior Specialist, SRE

Job summary

The Senior Site Reliability and DevOps Engineer leads engineering work to improve the reliability, scalability, and operational performance of enterprise services across Azure and hybrid environments. The role translates customer requirements into supportable platform solutions, assures CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code designs, leads technical workstreams, and resolves complex reliability issues. It uses automation, observability, and incident data, with technologies including Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure Monitor, and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise DevOps, platform, or cloud-native engineering experience supporting reliable services in Azure and hybrid environments.
• Experience with source control, branching strategies, release automation, and controlled environment promotion.
• CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, or equivalent platforms.
• Infrastructure-as-code and configuration-automation experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
• Knowledge of Azure governance, identity, networking, security, and operational management.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads; practical AKS experience is advantageous.
• Experience with observability tools for logs, metrics, traces, alerting, and service health.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, secrets management, policy enforcement, and vulnerability management.
• Experience designing for resilience, backup, disaster recovery, capacity, and operational supportability.
• Technical leadership, stakeholder influence, clear communication, and documentation skills.
• Infrastructure knowledge sufficient to understand service dependencies and impacts.
• Platform engineering, Azure landing zones, self-service provisioning, SRE practices, and blameless incident learning are advantageous.
• Experience with Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, PowerShell, Python, or Bash is advantageous.
• IT service management, managed services, consultancy, or multi-customer delivery experience is advantageous.
• Experience coaching engineers and promoting reusable, secure, and supportable engineering practices is advantageous.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, Azure security components, mobile device management, Intune, Windows Server, virtualization, hybrid Exchange, endpoint security, backup, and restoration.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer requirements into DevOps, platform, and reliability solutions.
• Assure designs for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud platforms, observability, security, and operational support.
• Lead technical workstreams, mentor engineers, and establish engineering standards.
• Resolve complex platform, deployment, automation, and reliability issues; identify root causes and prevent recurring incidents.
• Transition projects into managed services with documentation, monitoring, support models, security controls, and service acceptance.
• Standardize reusable pipelines, templates, and infrastructure modules.
• Facilitate customer workshops and design reviews, communicating technical choices, risks, and trade-offs.
• Use service data, observability, and incident trends to prioritize reliability and performance improvements.
• Collaborate across architecture, delivery, managed services, security, service management, and commercial teams.

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Industry

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