Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for an experiencedSenior 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 spanningDevOps, 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 improveplatform reliability, deployment velocity, resilience, automation, operational efficiency and production performance, while supporting mission-critical enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities

DevOps & Platform Engineering

• Design, build and maintaincloud-native infrastructure and platform services.

• Develop and maintainInfrastructure 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-gradeCI/CD pipelinesfor 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 matureSite Reliability Engineering practicesacross production environments.

• Define, monitor and manageService Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Improve application and platformavailability, scalability, resilience and performance.

• Lead production incident response, troubleshooting, problem management andRoot Cause Analysis (RCA).

• Drive proactive reliability improvements and reduction of technical debt.

• ImproveMean Time to Detect (MTTD)andMean Time to Recover (MTTR).

Azure Cloud Engineering

• Design, implement and operate enterpriseMicrosoft Azureenvironments.

• Work extensively with technologies such as:

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

  • Azure App Services

  • Azure Networking

  • Azure Monitor

  • Azure Storage

  • Azure Identity Services

• Design highly available and disaster-recovery-capable environments.

• Optimise cloud environments forperformance, resilience, security and cost.

• Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments where required.

Containers & Kubernetes

• Build, deploy and support containerised applications usingDockerandKubernetes.

• Manage Kubernetes environments, particularlyAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Develop and maintain deployment configurations usingHelm.

• 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 comprehensivelogging, 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

• EmbedDevSecOpspractices 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' experienceacross 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 supportingmission-critical production systems.

• Experience operatinglarge-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 Automation

• 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

Relevant certifications would be advantageous, including:

• 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 bridgesoftware development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering and production operations.

They should have deep experience building and running highly available enterprise environments and possess a strongautomation-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.