Azure Site Reliability Engineer

Morgan McKinley; Dublin; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan McKinley is seeking an Azure Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability and operational excellence for Azure platform services. You will partner with platform engineering, networking, security, and AI infrastructure teams to embed reliability into Azure-native solutions.

Responsibilities include observability, incident response, automation, resilience testing, and runbook development for Azure landing zones, DMZs, and AI infrastructure supporting Foundry and private OpenAI access.

Qualifications

• Proven experience operating and supporting Azure platform services with a reliability focus.
• Hands-on SRE practices: observability, incident response, automation, resilience testing.
• Ability to collaborate with platform engineering, networking, security, and infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Support observability, incident response, automation, and resilience testing for Azure landing zones.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks for onboarding and running enterprise workloads.
• Work on ingress/egress DMZs and service integration layers in Azure.
• Support AI infrastructure workloads at scale, including Foundry and private OpenAI access.
• Ensure reliability objectives across Azure platform components are met.

Skills

Azure

Site Reliability Engineering

Observability

Incident response

Automation

Resilience testing

Operational runbooks

Networking collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Powershell

Python

Azure DevOps

Job description

The requested Azure SRE role will ensure reliability and operational excellence for Azure platform services delivered through the product operating model.The role partners closely with horizontal teams across platform engineering, networking, security, and AI infrastructure to embed reliability into Azure-native solutions.

Responsibilities include supporting observability, incident response, automation, resilience testing, and operational runbook development for Azure landing zones, ingress and egress DMZs, service integration layers, and AI infrastructure supporting Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.

The role ensures platform components meet defined reliability, availability, and scalability objectives while enabling consistent onboarding and sustained operation of enterprise workloads in Azure.

Experience:

• Strong experience operating and supporting Azure platform services with a clear focus on reliability, availability, and scalability.
• Hands-on experience with Site Reliability Engineering practices, including observability, incident response, automation, resilience testing, and operational readiness.
• Can collaborate effectively with platform engineering, networking, security, and infrastructure teams to embed reliability into Azure-native solutions.
• Supporting enterprise Azure landing zones, ingress and egress DMZs, service integration layers, and shared platform components.
• developing and maintaining operational runbooks and ensure platforms support consistent onboarding and sustained operation of enterprise workloads.
• Solid experience operating secure Azure environments and supporting AI infrastructure workloads at scale.

Experience:

• Direct experience supporting AI infrastructure in Azure, including platforms enabling Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.
• Strong familiarity with designing and operating highly available service integration layers and network perimeters in complex enterprise environments.
• Have advanced experience integrating reliability objectives into platform product operating models and influencing reliability standards across horizontal teams.
• Can demonstrate strong skills in automation, platform observability design, and driving operational excellence across shared Azure services.