Azure Site Reliability Engineer 

Service description:

We are seeking an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer to join our Engineering chapter team. You will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, monitoring, and performance of our cloud-based services in the Consumer Centricity product organization. Your responsibilities will include designing, implementing best practices, and managing our infrastructure. You are working within cross-functional teams to improve systems and processes and ensure uptime and efficiency. 

Requirements:

Key Responsibilities: 

• Automation and CI/CD: Design, create, and maintain automation frameworks for deployment, scaling, and managing productive environments. 
• System Monitoring and Maintenance: Implement and manage monitoring tools to ensure system health and performance. Proactively identify and fix issues before they impact users. 
• Incident Management: Respond to and resolve incidents in a timely manner, perform root cause analysis, and implement measures to prevent recurrence. 
• Performance Optimization: Analyze system performance and implement improvements to ensure scalability and efficiency. 
• Capacity Planning: Conduct capacity planning assessments to predict system needs and ensure resources are in place to handle growth. 
• Collaboration: Work closely with development teams to integrate systems reliability into the development lifecycle through continuous integration and deployment practices. 
• Documentation: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to systems architecture, configuration, and operational procedures. 
• Tool Development: Develop and maintain internal tools to streamline processes and improve system reliability. 
• Security: Ensure that security controls are implemented, monitored, and maintained across all systems. 
• Service Level Objectives (SLOs): Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to ensure reliability metrics meet business requirements. 
• On-call Support: Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems and infrastructure. 

Qualifications: 

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years in a Site Reliability Engineer or DevOps role with extensive experience in Microsoft Azure. 

Technical Skills: 

• Proficient in scripting languages (Python, Azure CLI, PowerShell). 
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). 
• Proficiency in Azure Cloud services (VMs, Storage, Networking, etc.). 
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep to automate secure provisioning and configuration of Azure resources. 
• Strong experience with monitoring, logging and alerting tools such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or Log Analytics and third-party solutions like Grafana, Splunk or Elastic Stack. 
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, hybrid cloud, and virtual networking concepts (e.g.: VPNs, subnets, NSGs, load balancing, hub & spoke). 
• Experience in Azure governance and cost management using Azure Cost Management, Azure Policies, and management groups. 

Soft Skills: 

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical abilities. 
• Strong communication and collaboration skills. 
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities. 

Languages: English (C1). 

Not a must, but advantageous: 

• Microsoft Azure certifications, such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert. 
• Experience with the following technologies: Kong, Event Hubs, Dapr 
• Extra Languages: French (B1), Dutch (B1)