At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure reliability and performance of Azure cloud platforms while driving automation and operational excellence.
- Company: Join a leading tech company focused on innovative solutions for global challenges.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate with talented teams globally and enjoy a culture of continuous learning.
- Why this job: Make an impact by enhancing cloud services and championing best practices in Site Reliability Engineering.
- Qualifications: Experience in SRE, DevOps, and strong knowledge of Azure and automation technologies.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Become part of making the impossible possible. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, availability, performance, and scalability of our Azure-based cloud platforms and applications. You will lead proactive reliability engineering initiatives, helping to establish observability standards, define service level objectives, strengthen incident response capabilities, and drive automation across deployments and operational processes.
Working closely with engineering, product, and operations teams, you will help ensure that new features and platform enhancements can be delivered rapidly without compromising stability, security, or customer experience. As a senior technical specialist, you will champion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) best practices, improve platform resilience, and contribute to the continuous evolution of our cloud services and operational excellence.
- Monitor the performance, availability, reliability, and overall health of Azure cloud applications and services using telemetry, metrics, logging, and observability tools.
- Proactively identify issues, risks, and operational trends to prevent downtime, service degradation, and customer impact.
- Drive automation and operational excellence across monitoring, deployments, recovery processes, documentation, and runbooks to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk.
- Collaborate with software engineering, product, and operations teams to embed reliability and DevOps best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Identify opportunities to improve platform resilience, scalability, and operational maturity through data-driven insights and reliability engineering principles.
- Act as a technical leader for reliability initiatives, promoting a culture of operational excellence, continuous learning, and service ownership across teams.
About you:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Significant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations, or a similar role supporting enterprise-scale platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience operating and supporting production workloads on Microsoft Azure.
- Expertise in monitoring, alerting, observability platforms, and cloud-native operational practices.
- Deep understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, error budgets, and reliability engineering methodologies.
- Experience with automation and development using technologies such as C#, Python, PowerShell, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Strong knowledge of incident management, root cause analysis, CI/CD pipelines, and operational best practices.
- Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator or Azure DevOps Engineer are highly desirable.
- Experience working within regulated, scientific, or enterprise environments would be advantageous.
What's in It for You:
- Work alongside talented colleagues across engineering, product, and operations teams on a global scale.
- Enjoy opportunities for professional development, technical growth, and industry-recognised certification support.
- Benefit from a comprehensive and competitive rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, career progression, and long-term success.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Remote, Contract employer: Malvern Panalytical
At Malvern Panalytical, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic remote work environment that fosters collaboration and innovation among talented professionals. Our commitment to employee growth is evident through comprehensive development opportunities, industry-recognised certification support, and a competitive rewards package designed to enhance your wellbeing and career progression. Join us in making the impossible possible as we drive operational excellence and contribute to meaningful advancements in technology and science.
