Site Reliability Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Chelmsford; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a fast-growing tech organization as a Site Reliability Engineer, where you'll be pivotal in building and maintaining a reliable cloud infrastructure in Azure. This fully remote role offers an exciting opportunity to collaborate with developers and product teams, driving performance and resilience across systems. You'll implement best practices, enhance operational excellence, and automate deployments, all while ensuring the security and reliability of mission-critical platforms. If you're passionate about cloud technologies and enjoy a collaborative environment, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role.
• Deep expertise in Azure cloud infrastructure and modern automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead SRE best practices across Azure infrastructure.
• Automate infrastructure and deployments using IaC principles.

Skills

Azure cloud infrastructure

Terraform

Ansible

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

Networking principles

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure Monitor

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Job Description

Bristow Holland are proud to be working with a fast-growing tech organisation on an outstanding opportunity for a fully remote Site Reliability Engineer.

In this role, you’ll play a key part in building and maintaining reliable, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure to support a mission-critical platform running entirely in Azure.

You’ll be embedded in the heart of the engineering function, working closely with developers, operations, and product teams to drive performance, automation, and resilience across all systems.

Responsibilities:

• Leading and driving SRE best practices across a modern Azure-based infrastructure
• Ensuring availability, reliability, performance, and security of key systems and services
• Designing and implementing scalable, resilient infrastructure
• Collaborating closely with software and product teams to enhance operational excellence
• Implementing monitoring, observability, and alerting
• Automating infrastructure and deployments using modern tools and IaC principles
• Contributing to incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement

Key Skills:

• Proven experience in a Site Reliability Engineer or similar role
• Deep hands-on expertise with Azure cloud infrastructure
• Experience with tools like Terraform, Ansible, or scripting in PowerShell/Python/Bash
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Azure App Services, Azure Storage, and networking/security principles
• Familiarity with observability tools like Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana
• Understanding of SRE principles, automation, and CI/CD pipelines
• A collaborative, proactive attitude with great communication skills

Desirable Skills:

• Azure certifications (e.g. Azure Solutions Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer)
• Office 365 / Azure AD administration
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases
• A degree in Computer Science or similar field