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Troy Consultancy

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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Wokingham, United kingdom

Freelance

14-05-2025

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Job Specifications

Job Summary
We are seeking 15+ Experience highly skilled Azure DevOps Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will possess extensive hands-on experience in Azure cloud services, with expertise across IaaS, PaaS, AKS, ADO, Azure SQL, and Microservices environments. The role focuses on ensuring infrastructure reliability, availability, and performance, while enhancing automation, observability, and security in CI/CD pipelines and production systems.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO).
Manage and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters for scalability, high availability, and security.
Monitor and maintain Azure Storage Accounts and Microservices for performance, backup, and disaster recovery.
Administer and optimize Azure SQL Databases, including tuning, security, and compliance.
Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.
Implement observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Ensure high availability and disaster recovery across all Azure-hosted resources.
Troubleshoot performance, availability, and security issues in production and staging environments.
Collaborate with developers, QA, and security teams to enforce DevSecOps practices.
Drive continuous improvement and automation in cloud infrastructure operations.
Required Skills & Experience
Proven experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer or SRE in cloud-native environments.
Deep knowledge of Azure DevOps (ADO): Pipelines, Repos, Artifacts.
Expertise in AKS, Helm, container orchestration, and related tools.
Hands-on with Azure Storage (Blob, File, Table) and Microservices architecture.
Strong skills in Azure SQL Database management and SQL performance tuning.
Proficiency in scripting: PowerShell, Bash, Python.
Experience with IaC tools: Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.
Familiarity with monitoring/observability: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana.
Strong understanding of Azure networking, security, and identity management (AAD).
Incident handling and production support experience.
Microsoft Certifications such as:
Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
Azure Administrator Associate
Technical Stack Must-Haves
.NET C#, .NET Core
React
SQL
Python
Power BI
Power Automate
Microsoft 365 tools
Nice-to-Have Skills
Exposure to GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD platforms.
Experience with Kubernetes networking, Service Meshes (Istio), OPA/Kyverno policies.
Exposure to multi-cloud environments and SaaS integrations.

About the Company

We are an emerging IT Consulting organization based in Manchester, UK and Dublin, Ireland. Troy specialises in IT consulting in SAP, DevOps, Big Data, RPI, BPM, CRM, Data science and Cloud area. Troy has staffed members who can envision, design and develop with an ability to adapt to new technologies in UK and Ireland. We have offices in both UK and Ireland which enable us to reach out European Union. Our prestigious end Clients are IBM, Veritas, Cognizant, Wipro, British Gas and Npower. Would also like to highlight that o... Know more