Azure Site Reliability Engineer

Context Recruitment
Manchester, United Kingdom
3 weeks ago
£55,000 – £65,000 pa

Salary

£55,000 – £65,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Remote
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
8 May 2026 (3 weeks ago)

Azure Site Reliability Engineer

Remote based.
Paying between , depending on experience.

We are supporting a highly regarded Managed Services Provider in the search for an experienced Azure Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join their growing cloud engineering team.

This organisation has built an excellent reputation in the market and works with a broad client base across both the public and private sectors, including organisations within the NHS, local government, education, and policing. This role offers the opportunity to work across complex, large-scale Azure environments supporting critical services.

The Role

You will be responsible for maintaining and improving the reliability of Azure-based services, working across production and non-production environments.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Designing and maintaining resilient Azure infrastructure
  • Implementing and enhancing CI/CD pipelines
  • Supporting incident management and root cause analysis
  • Driving automation using Infrastructure as Code
  • Monitoring system performance and identifying improvements
  • Working closely with engineering teams to embed DevOps and SRE best practices

Skills & Experience

  • Proven experience as an Azure SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Cloud Engineer
  • Strong knowledge of Azure services across compute, networking, storage, databases, security and IAM
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and continuous delivery
  • Solid understanding of DevOps and SRE principles
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates)
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools

Desirable:

  • Azure certifications (or working towards)
  • Experience within a managed services or multi-client environment

Remote based.
Paying between , depending on experience.

Must be eligible to work in the UK.

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