Description
backup recovery
infrastructure code
observability
capacity planning
incident response
slo management
Join our Reliability and Platform group partnering with 10 Agile SCRUM teams to scale and harden a suite of microservices on Microsoft Azure. You will own production reliability for tier-1 services, set and track SLOs, automate operations, and lead incident response to keep our next-generation Supplier Risk Assessment platform fast, secure, and available. This role is fully remote role.
- Establish backup, disaster recovery, and tested restore procedures with clear RPO and RTO.
- Secure the stack with Managed Identity, Key Vault, workload identity, and network segmentation.
- Build infrastructure as code with Terraform or Bicep. Enforce policy as code.
- Mentor engineers and raise reliability standards across product teams.
- Design safe releases with progressive delivery, automated rollbacks, and feature flags.
- Plan capacity, tune performance, and optimize cost without impacting reliability.
- Lead on-call rotations, incident response, postmortems, and corrective actions.
- Compliance and audit trail design.
- Practical exercise: propose SLOs and an alert plan for a sample service, plus a release safety plan.
- Implement end-to-end observability: metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerts.
- Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical services.
Requirements
aks
terraform
python
opentelemetry
sre
azure
Tech Stack You Will Use
Azure, AKS, Terraform or Bicep, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, Docker, Helm, Service Bus, Storage, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Feature flagging tools.
- Experience with performance testing, p95 and p99 tuning, caching and connection pool strategies.
- Solid understanding of security hardening, container image scanning, SBOM, and least privilege.
- Proven incident command experience with measurable MTTR and MTTD improvements.
- 6+ years operating Kubernetes in production, including at least 3 years on AKS (network policies, PodDisruptionBudgets, HPA/VPA, node pools, upgrade playbooks).
- Culture and collaboration interview with Engineering.
- 10+ years in SRE, platform, or production-facing engineering roles running large-scale systems.
- Service mesh, eBPF, or advanced traffic shaping.
- Architect resilient multi-region and zone-aware workloads on Azure and AKS.
- FinOps practice with cost per request or per tenant KPIs.
- 5+ years designing observability and SLO-based alerting using OpenTelemetry and Kusto queries.
- Multi-tenant SaaS and data sovereignty patterns.
- 7+ years hands-on with Microsoft Azure: AKS, Front Door or Application Gateway, VNets, Private Link, Key Vault, Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Service Bus, Storage, SQL or Cosmos DB.
- 4+ years running canary or blue-green deployments in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Technical deep dive on Azure and AKS architecture.
- 5+ years infrastructure as code with Terraform or Bicep and Git-based workflows.
- Strong automation skills in Python or Go, plus Bash and PowerShell.
Benefits
- Financial Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance (3x salary).
- Everyday Perks: Home office budget, high-spec laptop and peripherals.
- Work Setup: Fully remote within UK time zones, optional access to our Basingstoke office.
- Time Off: 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays, holiday purchase scheme (+5 days), paid and unpaid volunteering days.
- Health and Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance or wellness fund, 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- Growth and Development: Ongoing CPD, team offsites, and company events.
Training + Development
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