Senior Azure SRE: Automate, Observe, Scale Cloud Platform

Vacant; Hoofddorp; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HeadFirst x Impellam seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to keep our Azure-based cloud platform reliable, scalable, and resilient. You will work hands-on with Cloud, Data, and AI teams to automate operations, improve observability, and prevent incidents through engineering excellence.

The role emphasizes staying hands-on, with no people-management responsibilities, and collaborating across Cloud, Data, and AI to raise engineering standards and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability/Cloud Engineering roles.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and cloud-native architectures.
• Proven ability to design and operate CI/CD pipelines and IaC.
• Deep experience with observability tools and incident response.
• Experience with Databricks and data/AI integrations a plus.

Responsibilities

• Improve reliability, availability, and performance of Azure-based platforms.
• Build and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting (Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor).
• Automate tasks with Infrastructure as Code and scripting (Python, Bash).
• Develop self-healing capabilities and automated remediation to reduce incidents.
• Lead root cause analyses and implement long-term improvements.
• Define and refine SLIs/SLOs and drive operational excellence.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Databricks

Incident Management

GitOps

Tools

Azure Databricks

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

HeadFirst x Impellam seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to keep our Azure-based cloud platform reliable, scalable, and resilient. You will work hands-on with Cloud, Data, and AI teams to automate operations, improve observability, and prevent incidents through engineering excellence.

The role emphasizes staying hands-on, with no people-management responsibilities, and collaborating across Cloud, Data, and AI to raise engineering standards and platform reliability.