Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer | Azure

Summary

The Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer will design and maintain cloud-native platforms, implement Infrastructure as Code, and manage CI/CD pipelines on Microsoft Azure. The role focuses on driving SRE practices, ensuring system reliability, and providing technical leadership to engineering teams.

We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to join a team responsible for building and maintaining highly available, scalable, secure and automated technology platforms supporting mission-critical applications.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain cloud-native platforms and infrastructure.
  • Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation solutions.
  • Build and manage CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
  • Drive SRE practices, including reliability, resilience, incident management and continuous improvement.
  • Implement monitoring, observability and proactive performance management.
  • Champion DevSecOps, security and compliance across the delivery lifecycle.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.

Minimum Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps or platform engineering.
  • 5+ years of hands-on DevOps experience.
  • 3+ years in SRE or production operations environments.
  • Proven experience supporting mission-critical enterprise production systems.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field is preferred.

Technical Skills

Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Microsoft Azure & AKS
  • Azure DevOps & GitHub Enterprise
  • Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates & Ansible
  • Docker, Kubernetes & Helm
  • Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory/Nexus
  • Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Elastic Stack & Azure Monitor
  • Python, PowerShell and Bash
  • CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure and automation

Advantageous:

OpenShift, AWS/GCP, Go and relevant Azure/Kubernetes/Terraform certifications.

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

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