Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Azure

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and proven experience supporting environments within the Banking or Financial Services industry . This role is responsible for designing and maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure while ensuring high availability and optimal performance of mission-critical applications in a regulated environment.

The ideal candidate brings a strong production support mindset and can effectively balance system reliability, automation, and delivery speed.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure .
  

• Enhance system reliability, performance, and uptime through automation and proactive monitoring.
  

• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for enterprise and cloud-native applications.
  

• Define, track, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs .
  

• Implement and manage observability solutions including logging, monitoring, and alerting.
  

• Support incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive post-incident improvements.
  

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
  

• Ensure infrastructure and applications comply with banking security and regulatory standards.
  

• Collaborate closely with DevOps, development, security, and operations teams.
  

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• 7–12 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Production Engineering roles.
  

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services including VMs, AKS, App Services, Networking, Storage, and Azure AD.
  

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.
  

• Expertise in CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
  

• Strong scripting skills using PowerShell, Python, or Bash .
  

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes container orchestration.
  

• Prior experience working within Banking or Financial Services environments.
  

• Solid understanding of security, compliance, and risk management in regulated industries.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk .
  

• Knowledge of high availability and disaster recovery architectures .
  

• Familiarity with ITIL processes and incident management frameworks.
  

• Microsoft Azure certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-400 , or equivalent are a plus.