Site Reliability Engineer (Azure)

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The Site Reliability Engineer (Azure) is a specialist role within the Integration Technologies team, responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and operational excellence of Azure-based integration platforms and services. This role focuses on the production and non-production environments supporting enterprise integrations (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Logic Apps, API Management, Event Hub), applying SRE principles to proactively manage system health, automate operations, reduce operational toil, and continuously improve service resilience and observability. The role bridges engineering and operations, working closely with integration developers, platform teams, and vendors to ensure solutions are supportable, scalable, and aligned with operational acceptance standards.

Own the reliability and availability of Azure integration services across production and non production environments

Monitor system health, performance, and availability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, DataDog and other observability tooling

Define, implement, and maintain Service Level Objectives and other metrics for key services

Lead incident response, triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews (PIRs)

Reduce operational toil through automation using scripting (PowerShell, Azure CLI), IaC (Bicep/Terraform), and pipelines

Implement self-healing mechanisms, alerting improvements, and proactive remediation patterns o Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for operational deployments and configuration changes