About the Company

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About the Assignment

You will take a leading role in establishing and evolving a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice as part of a modernization journey towards cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure. Working closely with development and platform stakeholders, you’ll help build the strategy, tooling, ways of working and culture needed to deliver a highly reliable digital experience within the pet insurance domain.

Job Description

• Lead the design, implementation and continuous improvement of SRE practices for Azure workloads.
• Partner with development teams to embed SRE principles throughout the development lifecycle.
• Own and improve the operational health, reliability and performance of services running in Azure.
• Define and implement monitoring, incident management routines and post-incident reviews.
• Automate operational tasks using software/scripting (e.g., C#, Python, Node.js or other suitable languages).
• Mentor colleagues on reliability, observability and cloud operations best practices.
• Participate in and lead incident response efforts.
• Establish and maintain a desired-state operational model aligned with stakeholders and the platform team.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in the IT field.
• Proven experience working with Site Reliability Engineering in a reliability/ops team in close collaboration with development teams.
• Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure and operating/troubleshooting cloud workloads such as Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, Azure App Service, SQL Azure and Cosmos DB.
• Solid understanding of databases (SQL and NoSQL), including backup and restore operations.
• Software development proficiency enabling automation of repetitive operational work (C#, Python, Node.js or similar).
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, including Git branching and code review practices.
• Good understanding of networking, especially Azure virtual networks.
• Practical knowledge of incident and problem management.

Nice to have

• Azure certification(s).
• Understanding of distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience with Kubernetes platforms such as AKS and/or OpenShift.
• Familiarity with ITSM tools such as ServiceNow.

Application

Selections are made on an ongoing basis, so we recommend that you apply as soon as possible.