Azure DevOps SRE

I am currently looking for an experienced Azure DevOps SRE for a consultancy client of mine to work on a 12 month contract with their end client. You will have extensive experience in the Azure platform and specifically in areas such as IaaS and PaaS. With extensive Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage Accounts, Azure Data factory and Azure SQL experience. You will be responsible for ensuring the realiability, availability and performance of the cloud based infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines while implementing best practices for automation, monitoring and security.

The key responsibilities include to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO) to enable seamless deployments and  manage and optimise Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security. Monitor and maintain Azure Storage Accounts to support application data needs, backups, and disaster recovery strategies and Microservices to support application data needs, backups, and disaster recovery strategies. Administer and optimise Azure SQL Databases, ensuring performance, security, and compliance best practices and to develop and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep. Help implement and maintain observability solutions, including logging, monitoring, and alerting using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana. Ensure high availability and disaster recovery strategies for Azure-hosted applications and databases and to troubleshoot and resolve performance, security, and availability issues in Azure environments. You will work closely with development, testers and security teams to enforce DevSecOps best practices and to drive automation and process improvements to reduce manual intervention and enhance system resilience.

You must have proven experience as an Azure DevOps engineer in large cloud based environments and hands on experience with ADO including pipelines, repositories and artifacts as well as AKS experience including container orchestration and helm charts.

The role requires you to be on site 2 days a week in Wokingham and will be inside IR35.