Senior Azure Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Azure Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability and performance of our SaaS platform on Microsoft Azure. You will work closely with engineering, DevOps and infrastructure teams to design, automate and operate scalable, resilient systems.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and operate highly available, fault‑tolerant services on Azure.
• Define, track and improve reliability metrics and service health indicators.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM templates or Terraform.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, scaling and operational workflows to reduce manual toil.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment safety and efficiency.
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting solutions for real‑time visibility.
• Lead incident response, root‑cause analysis and post‑incident reviews.
• Embed security and compliance best practices across the infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to improve application resilience.

Required profile

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role in a SaaS or cloud‑native environment.
• Hands‑on experience operating production workloads on Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage, monitoring).
• Strong automation and scripting skills, especially PowerShell.
• Experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog or OpenTelemetry.
• Understanding of incident response, SLA/SLO management and reliability engineering practices.

Required skills

• Microsoft Azure
• Bicep / ARM templates
• Terraform
• PowerShell
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Azure Monitor
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Datadog
• OpenTelemetry
• CI/CD pipeline automation