Site Reliability Engineer

Job summary

This cloud engineering role builds and supports Azure platforms and services, improving reliability, resilience, performance, observability, and availability through Site Reliability Engineering practices. The work includes maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines and infrastructure as code, deploying containerised services and zero-downtime Azure App Services releases, and using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights to track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of SRE principles and practices.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and infrastructure.
• Experience with observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Experience with containers, AKS, and Azure App Services.
• Understanding of incident management, root cause analysis, reliability metrics, and continuous improvement.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, such as Terraform, OpenTofu, or Scalr.
• Knowledge of PowerShell, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Understanding of secure cloud engineering, deployment strategies, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimise Azure DevOps deployment pipelines.
• Design and maintain secure, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Identify and resolve platform, infrastructure, and deployment weaknesses.
• Develop and maintain PowerShell and Azure PowerShell scripts for platform administration and operations.
• Promote SRE practices for observability, monitoring, incident management, and operational excellence.
• Deploy and support multi-tier Azure environments using OpenTofu modules.
• Maintain engineering tools for software delivery, platform operations, monitoring, and service management.
• Test and validate platform capabilities and assess production readiness.
• Participate in on-call rotations, conduct blameless incident reviews, perform root cause analysis, and prevent recurring incidents.
• Manage zero-downtime Azure App Services deployments using deployment slots and blue/green strategies.
• Deploy, scale, and manage containerised microservices on AKS or Azure Container Apps.
• Configure monitoring tools and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.

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Relocation