Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer at Datonomy Solutions

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build and operate highly available, secure, scalable and automated enterprise technology platforms. This is a senior hands-on engineering role spanning DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Observability and DevSecOps. The successful candidate will work across engineering and delivery teams to improve platform reliability, deployment velocity, resilience, automation, operational efficiency and production performance, while supporting mission-critical enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
• Build reusable engineering tools, deployment templates and platform components.
• Establish and standardise platform engineering practices across multiple delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual intervention and increase engineering automation.

CI/CD & Release Automation

• Design, implement and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement automated testing, security scanning, code-quality controls and release automation.
• Enable automated deployments, rollback and recovery processes.
• Improve deployment frequency while reducing change and deployment risk.
• Continuously optimise software delivery and release-management processes.

Site Reliability Engineering

• Implement and mature Site Reliability Engineering practices across production environments.
• Define, monitor and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Improve application and platform availability, scalability, resilience and performance.
• Lead production incident response, troubleshooting, problem management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Drive proactive reliability improvements and reduction of technical debt.
• Improve Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).

Azure Cloud Engineering

• Design, implement and operate enterprise Microsoft Azure environments.
• Work extensively with technologies such as:

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Azure App Services o Azure Networking o Azure Monitor o Azure Storage o Azure Identity Services
• Design highly available and disaster-recovery-capable environments.
• Optimise cloud environments for performance, resilience, security and cost.
• Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments where required.

Containers & Kubernetes

• Build, deploy and support containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Manage Kubernetes environments, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Develop and maintain deployment configurations using Helm.
• Support container-platform reliability, scalability and operational performance.
• OpenShift experience would be advantageous.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

Hands-on Experience With Technologies Such As

• Terraform
• Bicep
• ARM Templates
• Ansible

Candidates should be comfortable using Infrastructure as Code to build repeatable, scalable and governed enterprise infrastructure.

Monitoring & Observability

• Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing and alerting.
• Build operational dashboards and platform insights.
• Establish enterprise observability standards.
• Implement proactive and predictive monitoring.
• Use observability information to improve application and infrastructure reliability.

Relevant Technologies May Include

• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Elastic Stack / ELK
• Splunk
• Azure Monitor
• OpenTelemetry

DevSecOps & Security

• Embed DevSecOps practices throughout the software-delivery lifecycle.
• Integrate security scanning and controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support vulnerability identification, remediation and risk reduction.
• Ensure cloud and platform environments comply with enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
• Work closely with information-security teams to continuously improve platform security.

Technical Leadership

• Provide technical leadership across DevOps, Cloud, Platform and SRE teams.
• Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and technology roadmaps.
• Promote engineering standards and operational best practice.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives aimed at improving engineering productivity and reliability.

Minimum Experience

• 8+ years' experience across software engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps or platform engineering.
• 5+ years' hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
• 3+ years' Site Reliability Engineering or production-operations experience.
• Proven experience supporting mission-critical production systems.
• Experience operating large-scale enterprise technology platforms.
• Strong exposure to highly available and business-critical environments.

Essential Technical Skills

Cloud

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Networking
• Azure App Services
• Azure Monitor
• Azure Storage
• Azure Identity

DevOps / CI/CD

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub / Git
• Jenkins
• SonarQube
• Artifactory and/or Nexus

Infrastructure Automation

• Terraform
• Bicep
• ARM Templates
• Ansible

Containers

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Helm

Observability

• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Elastic Stack
• Splunk
• Azure Monitor
• OpenTelemetry

Scripting / Development

Strong Scripting Or Programming Ability Using Technologies Such As

• Python
• PowerShell
• Bash
• C#
• Java

Go experience would be advantageous.

Core Technical Competencies

• DevOps Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Azure Cloud Engineering
• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes / Container Orchestration
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure Automation
• DevSecOps
• Cloud Architecture
• Observability
• Continuous Delivery
• Systems Integration
• Capacity Planning
• Performance Optimisation
• Incident & Problem Management
• Root Cause Analysis

Behavioural Competencies

• Strong technical problem-solving ability
• Strategic thinking
• Strong decision-making skills
• Collaboration across engineering disciplines
• Stakeholder management
• Continuous-improvement mindset
• Coaching and mentoring capability
• Accountability and ownership
• Customer-centric approach

Qualifications

A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent technical qualification in one of the following areas is preferred:

• Computer Science
• Information Technology
• Software Engineering
• Information Systems

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• ITIL Foundation
• SRE Foundation Certification

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior, hands-on engineer who can bridge software development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering and production operations. They should have deep experience building and running highly available enterprise environments and possess a strong automation-first and reliability-focused mindset. This person should be equally comfortable troubleshooting a critical production issue, building Terraform infrastructure, improving a Kubernetes platform, designing a CI/CD pipeline, implementing observability, defining SLOs and mentoring other engineers.

Desired Skills

• Senior DevOps Engineer
• Site Reliability Engineer
• SRE