Azure Site Reliability Engineer

Sigmar Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 61,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

12-month contract

Job summary

Sigmar Recruitment partners with a global financial leader in Dublin to deliver an Azure-focused SRE contract role. You will embed SRE into Azure-native platform solutions, helping modernise regulated platforms and ensure reliability in production.

The role supports AI workloads, observability, incident response, and automation with tools like Azure CLI, PowerShell, Terraform, and Bicep. It offers a hybrid work pattern (3 days in the office) and an initial 12-month contract with strong extension

Qualifications

• Experience operating Azure platform services in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on SRE with observability, incident response, automation.
• Experience supporting Azure landing zones, DMZs and shared services.
• Experience supporting AI infrastructure workloads at scale.
• Experience enabling Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.
• Ability to define reliability objectives (availability, scalability, performance).

Responsibilities

• Embed SRE principles into Azure-native platform solutions.
• Improve Azure landing zones, network perimeters, DMZs, and service layers.
• Design observability with monitoring, logging, dashboards, and reliability metrics.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop automation to improve operational efficiency.
• Plan and execute resilience testing and recovery exercises.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, playbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Support onboarding of enterprise workloads across Azure.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, networking, security, infrastructure and AI teams.
• Promote reliability, availability, scalability, and operational standards.

Skills

Azure platform services

SRE practices

Observability

Automation

Incident response

Resilience testing

Operational runbooks

AI workloads support

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Azure CLI

PowerShell

Python

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

IT Contracting has gotten a boost with a great SRE opportunity with one of our clients in their Dublin offices!

About Your New Employer

• Join a global financial leader at the forefront of innovation within Market Risk Technology.
• Work in a collaborative, mission-critical environment driving modernisation and operational excellence for regulated financial platforms.
• Exposure to advanced AI engineering, large-scale platform upgrades, and complex remediation programs in a top-tier banking technology setting.

About Your New Job

• Embed Site Reliability Engineering principles into Azure-native platform solutions and product operating models.
• Support and improve enterprise Azure landing zones, ingress and egress DMZs, service integration layers, and shared platform components.
• Design and enhance platform observability through effective monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and reliability metrics.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop automation to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual intervention, and support consistent platform operations.
• Plan and execute resilience testing, recovery exercises, and operational readiness assessments.
• Develop, maintain, and test operational runbooks, playbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Support the onboarding and sustained operation of enterprise workloads across Azure.
• Work closely with platform engineering, networking, security, infrastructure, and AI teams to identify and resolve reliability risks.
• Help define and promote reliability, availability, scalability, and operational standards across horizontal engineering teams.
• Support secure AI infrastructure workloads, including platforms enabling Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.

What Skills You Need In This Job

• Strong experience operating and supporting Azure platform services in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven hands-on experience with SRE practices, including observability, incident response, automation, resilience testing, and operational readiness.
• Experience supporting Azure landing zones, network perimeters, ingress and egress DMZs, service integration layers, and shared Azure services.
• Direct experience operating secure Azure environments and supporting AI infrastructure workloads at scale.
• Experience supporting platforms that enable Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.
• Strong knowledge of highly available service integration layers and enterprise networking environments.
• Demonstrable experience developing and maintaining operational runbooks.
• Strong automation and scripting skills, using tools such as Azure CLI, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or Bicep.
• Experience designing observability solutions for cloud platforms and shared services.
• The ability to define and apply reliability objectives, including availability, scalability, and operational performance targets.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence standards across platform engineering, networking, security, and infrastructure teams.

What’s on Offer In This Job

• Daily Rate of up to €550+
• Hybrid working environment that is 3 days a week in the office
• 12 Month Contract with a good likelihood of contract extensions