Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Senior SRE role focused on keeping production cloud platforms observable, secure, scalable and reliable. You will lead automation and incident investigations within a growing Cloud Platform Engineering function, collaborating with Cloud Operations, Support, DevOps and Engineering teams. The role emphasizes Azure expertise, observability, and cost-conscious platform improvements to support mission-critical SaaS solutions. You will help shape architecture, governance and security practices while exploring AI-assisted tooling for automation and troubleshooting.

Pay / Benefits

• Bonus
• Medical Care

Responsibilities

• Protect and improve production environments as part of the SRE team
• Manage and prioritize a backlog of reliability, scalability and operational improvements
• Lead investigations into outages, performance issues and cloud expenditure
• Perform root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions
• Automate repetitive operational activities
• Provide technical leadership to Cloud Operations, Support, DevOps and Engineering teams
• Establish and maintain SLOs, SLAs, SLIs and error budgets
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting and dashboards across cloud and microservices
• Deploy observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry)
• Develop custom metrics and queries for distributed microservices
• Create reusable Bicep/Terraform modules for monitoring and cloud infra
• Support and improve AKS-based Kubernetes environments
• Review and optimize platform performance, security and cost
• Contribute to cloud architecture and scalable platform solutions
• Support continuous improvement of deployment and provisioning processes
• Ensure security, governance and compliance requirements are met
• Explore AI-assisted tooling to enhance automation and productivity

Key requirements

• Six+ years in SRE/related cloud role
• Strong hands-on Azure expertise
• Production experience with Kubernetes/AKS
• Extensive experience in observability and monitoring
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch
• Custom metrics, queries, dashboards for microservices
• Scripting or development skills (PowerShell, Python, C#)
• IaC experience (Bicep, ARM, Terraform)
• Git or other VCS
• Knowledge of SQL Server, Elasticsearch, YAML/JSON/XML
• Understanding of microservices, cloud platforms and containerisation
• Experience defining/woking with SLOs, SLAs, SLIs and error budgets
• Troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills
• Security, governance and compliance awareness
• Experience in transformation projects and live-service environments

• Technical leadership
• Collaborative cross-functional communication
• Problem-solving and analytical mindset
• Microsoft Azure
• Kubernetes / AKS
• Grafana

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