Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for an experienced
Senior Dev Ops & 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
Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Observability and Dev Sec Ops .

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• Design, implement and operate enterprise
  Microsoft Azure
  environments.

• 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 for
  performance, resilience, security and cost
  .

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

• 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.

• Open Shift experience would be advantageous.

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.

• 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

• Open Telemetry

• Embed
  Dev Sec Ops 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.

• Provide technical leadership across Dev Ops, Cloud, Platform and SRE…