Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer at Datonomy Solutions
Datonomy Solutions
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Job summary
Datonomy Solutions seeks a senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer to design, build and operate highly available, secure, scalable enterprise platforms. This hands-on role spans DevOps, SRE, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, IaC, CI/CD, observability and DevSecOps, delivering automated, reliable production systems across teams.
The candidate will lead platform engineering practices, drive automation, and improve deployment velocity while ensuring security and compliance in mission-critical environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
- Build reusable engineering tools, deployment templates and platform components.
- Establish and standardise platform engineering practices across multiple delivery teams.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual intervention and increase engineering automation.
- Design, implement and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Implement automated testing, security scanning, code-quality controls and release automation.
- Enable automated deployments, rollback and recovery processes.
- Improve deployment frequency while reducing change and deployment risk.
- Continuously optimise software delivery and release-management processes.
- Define, monitor and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Improve application and platform availability, scalability, resilience and performance.
- Lead production incident response, troubleshooting, problem management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
- Drive proactive reliability improvements and reduction of technical debt.
- Design, implement and operate enterprise Microsoft Azure environments.
- Work extensively with technologies such as Azure App Services, Azure Networking, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Azure Identity Services.
- Build, deploy and support containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Develop and maintain deployment configurations using Helm.
- Support container-platform reliability, scalability and operational performance.
- Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, Ansible for IaC.
- Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing and alerting.
- Build operational dashboards and platform insights.
- Establish enterprise observability standards.
- Implement proactive and predictive monitoring.
- Use observability information to improve reliability.
- Strong scripting or programming abilities using Python, PowerShell, Bash, C#, Java.
- Go experience would be advantageous.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve productivity and reliability.
- Provide technical leadership across DevOps, Cloud, Platform and SRE teams.
Job description
We are looking for an experienced Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build and operate highly available, secure, scalable and automated enterprise technology platforms. This is a senior hands-on engineering role spanning DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Azure Cloud, Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Observability and DevSecOps. The successful candidate will work across engineering and delivery teams to improve platform reliability, deployment velocity, resilience, automation, operational efficiency and production performance, while supporting mission-critical enterprise applications.
- Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure and platform services.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration and operational processes.
- Build reusable engineering tools, deployment templates and platform components.
- Establish and standardise platform engineering practices across multiple delivery teams.
- Identify opportunities to reduce manual intervention and increase engineering automation.
- Design, implement and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
- Implement automated testing, security scanning, code-quality controls and release automation.
- Enable automated deployments, rollback and recovery processes.
- Improve deployment frequency while reducing change and deployment risk.
- Continuously optimise software delivery and release-management processes.
- Implement and mature Site Reliability Engineering practices across production environments.
- Define, monitor and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Improve application and platform availability, scalability, resilience and performance.
- Lead production incident response, troubleshooting, problem management and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
- Drive proactive reliability improvements and reduction of technical debt.
- Improve Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).
- Design, implement and operate enterprise Microsoft Azure environments.
- Work extensively with technologies such as:
- Azure App Services o Azure Networking o Azure Monitor o Azure Storage o Azure Identity Services
- Design highly available and disaster-recovery-capable environments.
- Optimise cloud environments for performance, resilience, security and cost.
- Support hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud environments where required.
- Build, deploy and support containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Manage Kubernetes environments, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Develop and maintain deployment configurations using Helm.
- Support container-platform reliability, scalability and operational performance.
- OpenShift experience would be advantageous.
- Terraform
- Bicep
- ARM Templates
- Ansible
Candidates should be comfortable using Infrastructure as Code to build repeatable, scalable and governed enterprise infrastructure.
- Implement comprehensive logging, monitoring, metrics, tracing and alerting.
- Build operational dashboards and platform insights.
- Establish enterprise observability standards.
- Implement proactive and predictive monitoring.
- Use observability information to improve application and infrastructure reliability.
- Dynatrace
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Elastic Stack / ELK
- Splunk
- Azure Monitor
- OpenTelemetry
- Embed DevSecOps practices throughout the software-delivery lifecycle.
- Integrate security scanning and controls into CI/CD pipelines.
- Support vulnerability identification, remediation and risk reduction.
- Ensure cloud and platform environments comply with enterprise security and regulatory requirements.
- Work closely with information-security teams to continuously improve platform security.
- Provide technical leadership across DevOps, Cloud, Platform and SRE teams.
- Mentor and coach junior and intermediate engineers.
- Contribute to architecture decisions and technology roadmaps.
- Promote engineering standards and operational best practice.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives aimed at improving engineering productivity and reliability.
- 8+ years' experience across software engineering, infrastructure engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps or platform engineering.
- 5+ years' hands-on DevOps engineering experience.
- 3+ years' Site Reliability Engineering or production-operations experience.
- Proven experience supporting mission-critical production systems.
- Experience operating large-scale enterprise technology platforms.
- Strong exposure to highly available and business-critical environments.
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Networking
- Azure App Services
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Storage
- Azure Identity
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub / Git
- Jenkins
- SonarQube
- Artifactory and/or Nexus
- Terraform
- Bicep
- ARM Templates
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Helm
- Dynatrace
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Elastic Stack
- Splunk
- Azure Monitor
- OpenTelemetry
- Python
- PowerShell
- Bash
- C#
- Java
Go experience would be advantageous.
- DevOps Engineering
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Azure Cloud Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes / Container Orchestration
- CI/CD
- Infrastructure Automation
- DevSecOps
- Cloud Architecture
- Observability
- Continuous Delivery
- Systems Integration
- Capacity Planning
- Performance Optimisation
- Incident & Problem Management
- Root Cause Analysis
- Strong technical problem-solving ability
- Strategic thinking
- Strong decision-making skills
- Collaboration across engineering disciplines
- Stakeholder management
- Continuous-improvement mindset
- Coaching and mentoring capability
- Accountability and ownership
- Customer-centric approach
A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent technical qualification in one of the following areas is preferred:
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Software Engineering
- Information Systems
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- ITIL Foundation
- SRE Foundation Certification
The ideal candidate is a senior, hands-on engineer who can bridge software development, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, platform engineering and production operations. They should have deep experience building and running highly available enterprise environments and possess a strong automation-first and reliability-focused mindset. This person should be equally comfortable troubleshooting a critical production issue, building Terraform infrastructure, improving a Kubernetes platform, designing a CI/CD pipeline, implementing observability, defining SLOs and mentoring other engineers.
- Senior DevOps Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- SRE
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