Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure/Kubernetes)

Talent Octopusventures; Dundrum; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate and improve secure, highly available Azure platforms for large-scale production environments. Lead reliability initiatives and partner with engineering, security, architecture and product teams to enhance resilience.

You will implement Terraform IaC, automate processes with Python/PowerShell/Go, and drive CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, supporting on-call rotations and incident response.

Qualifications

• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps or Platform Engineering.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure and strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service.
• Advanced Terraform skills and experience designing reusable Infrastructure as Code components.
• Strong Git and GitOps practices, with experience using CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps.
• Strong Linux administration, scripting and programming skills using languages such as Python, PowerShell, Go or Bash.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms, distributed tracing, application performance monitoring and proactive alerting.
• Skills in incident management, root cause analysis, capacity planning, performance optimisation, disaster recovery testing and production operations.
• Technical leadership, strategic thinking, problem solving, effective communication, collaboration, customer focus and an automation-first approach. Azure, Kubernetes or Terraform certifications are welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain highly available Azure infrastructure, including Azure Kubernetes Service, Virtual Machines, Functions, App Services, Storage, Networking, Key Vault and Azure Monitor.
• Define and maintain Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives and Error Budgets, driving continuous improvements in platform reliability and availability.
• Lead root cause analysis and post-incident reviews, developing resilience patterns such as auto-scaling, self-healing, disaster recovery, multi-region failover and high-availability architectures.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, build reusable platform components and automate manual operational processes using Python, PowerShell, Go or Bash.
• Operate and optimise AKS clusters, establish container security standards, implement GitOps practices using tools such as ArgoCD and manage upgrades, capacity and workloads.
• Develop monitoring, logging, alerting and distributed-tracing strategies, maintaining dashboards through Grafana and Azure Monitor to identify service degradation proactively.
• Build and support reliable, repeatable and auditable CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, including blue/green and canary deployment strategies.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor SRE I and SRE II engineers, promote SRE practices across teams and participate in on-call rotations and major incident management.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Python

PowerShell

Go

Bash

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to design, operate and improve secure, highly available Azure platforms for large-scale production environments. Lead reliability initiatives and partner with engineering, security, architecture and product teams to enhance resilience.

You will implement Terraform IaC, automate processes with Python/PowerShell/Go, and drive CI/CD with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, supporting on-call rotations and incident response.