Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (12-months contract)

About the job Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (12-months contract)

We are looking for a Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to take a leading role in designing, implementing and continuously improving highly available technology platforms supporting mission-critical business applications.

This is an opportunity to work across cloud, DevOps, platform engineering, automation, observability and SRE , while helping engineering teams deliver software faster, safer and more reliably.

What You’ll Be Doing

Platform Engineering & Automation

• Build and maintain cloud-native platforms and infrastructure.
• Develop IaC and automation using Terraform, Bicep, ARM and Ansible.
• Automate provisioning, deployments and operational processes.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate testing, security, deployments and rollbacks.
• Improve release speed, quality and reliability.

Site Reliability Engineering

• Implement SRE practices, SLIs, SLOs and SLAs.
• Improve system availability, resilience, performance and scalability.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis and reliability improvements.

Cloud Operations

• Manage and optimize enterprise cloud environments.
• Ensure high availability, security, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Support disaster recovery and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

Monitoring & Observability

• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Build dashboards and improve MTTD and MTTR.
• Drive proactive issue detection.

Security & Compliance

• Embed DevSecOps and security controls into delivery pipelines.
• Support vulnerability management and regulatory compliance.
• Strengthen overall platform security.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership across DevOps, cloud and platform teams.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.
• Contribute to architecture, technology roadmaps and continuous improvement.

Experience

• 8+ years of experience across software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or platform engineering.
• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
• 3+ years of experience in SRE or production operations environments.
• Proven experience supporting mission-critical production systems.
• Experience operating and supporting large-scale enterprise platforms.

Technical Skills

• Cloud: Azure, AKS, Azure App Services, Networking, Monitor, Storage & Identity; AWS/GCP advantageous.
• DevOps: Azure DevOps, GitHub Enterprise, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory/Nexus.
• IaC & Automation: Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, Ansible.
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm; OpenShift advantageous.
• Observability: Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, Splunk, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry.
• Programming & Scripting: Python, PowerShell, Bash, C#, Java; Go advantageous.
• Core Expertise: Cloud & Platform Engineering, SRE, Infrastructure Automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Systems Integration, Performance Optimisation and Incident Management.

Advantageous Certifications

• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert / Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / CKAD
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• ITIL Foundation / SRE Foundation

If you're passionate about DevOps, cloud, automation and reliability engineering and want to make a meaningful impact in a complex enterprise technology environment, we'd love to hear from you.