Azure Cloud Reliability Engineer (SRE) | Automate & Scale

Propellerhead; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Site Reliability/DevOps professional based in Auckland to design scalable cloud architectures on Microsoft Azure and automate deployment pipelines. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across hybrid work environments.

The ideal candidate combines strong coding skills across Rust/Java/.NET/Go with front-end familiarity and solid scripting in PowerShell, Python, or Ruby.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Site/Systems Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or equivalent.
• Very comfortable using AI to diagnose, script, automate, and document within an AI-assisted delivery pipeline.
• Expertise developing scalable web applications.
• Some proficiency in Rust, Java, .NET, or Go.
• Experience with JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, ReactJS, AngularJS, or similar front-end frameworks.
• Proven scripting experience with PowerShell, Ruby, Python, shell, or other common scripting languages.
• Experience using AI tools to help construct scripts.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure deployment architectures, Microsoft DevOps deployment pipelines, GitHub Actions, and Terraform.
• System administration of Linux cloud-based server environments.
• Troubleshooting and configuration of virtual networks.
• Familiarity with New Relic, Dynatrace, or similar monitoring frameworks, including dashboards and alerting integration.
• AWS and Bamboo/Bitbucket Pipelines experience is advantageous.
• Ability to switch context across different technologies and complex environments.
• Ability to remain calm during high-priority issue resolution.
• Good judgement about when to trust an AI-generated diagnosis and when to verify manually.
• Strong desire to learn and up-skill.
• Must be Auckland based.
• Hybrid attendance: work from home and on-site; office attendance required three days per week and occasionally as needed for client and team requirements.
• Candidates who progress may need to agree to a police background check, credit history check, other assessments, and provide evidence of qualifications.
• Cover letter required; applications without one will not be reviewed.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside core development teams throughout the development lifecycle to ensure systems are scalable, robust, and supportable
• Optimise software and infrastructure to improve reliability and decrease cost
• Design cloud deployment architectures on Azure
• Lead provisioning of deployment environments, including servers, services, networking, and communications with technical client stakeholders
• Ensure security, scalability, supportability, and performance in solution architectures
• Assist development teams with continuous integration and deployment pipelines
• Carry out scheduled software releases where full automation has not been achieved
• Configure monitoring and alerting tools and integrate them with support desk software
• Provide technical assistance for support ticket triaging and troubleshooting
• Diagnose and remedy reactive support issues during business hours and shared after-hours on-call
• Complete incident reports and implement ongoing mitigations
• Monitor incident progress and communicate status updates to clients
• Design and implement proactive continuous improvement programmes
• Automate recurring tasks
• Document system architecture and configuration/deployment processes with AI assistance
• Share technical knowledge with support developers across multiple teams

Skills

Rust

Java

.NET

Go

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

Node.js

ReactJS

AngularJS

Tools

Microsoft DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Linux Cloud-Based Server Environments

AWS

Bamboo

Bitbucket Pipelines

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Site Reliability/DevOps professional based in Auckland to design scalable cloud architectures on Microsoft Azure and automate deployment pipelines. The role focuses on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across hybrid work environments.

The ideal candidate combines strong coding skills across Rust/Java/.NET/Go with front-end familiarity and solid scripting in PowerShell, Python, or Ruby.