Azure Site Reliability Engineer

IT Contracting has gotten a boost with a great SRE opportunity with one of our clients in their Dublin offices!

About Your New Employer

• Join a global financial leader at the forefront of innovation within Market Risk Technology.
• Work in a collaborative, mission-critical environment driving modernisation and operational excellence for regulated financial platforms.
• Exposure to advanced AI engineering, large-scale platform upgrades, and complex remediation programs in a top-tier banking technology setting.

About Your New Job

• Embed Site Reliability Engineering principles into Azure-native platform solutions and product operating models.
• Support and improve enterprise Azure landing zones, ingress and egress DMZs, service integration layers, and shared platform components.
• Design and enhance platform observability through effective monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and reliability metrics.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop automation to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual intervention, and support consistent platform operations.
• Plan and execute resilience testing, recovery exercises, and operational readiness assessments.
• Develop, maintain, and test operational runbooks, playbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Support the onboarding and sustained operation of enterprise workloads across Azure.
• Work closely with platform engineering, networking, security, infrastructure, and AI teams to identify and resolve reliability risks.
• Help define and promote reliability, availability, scalability, and operational standards across horizontal engineering teams.
• Support secure AI infrastructure workloads, including platforms enabling Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.

What Skills You Need In This Job

• Strong experience operating and supporting Azure platform services in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven hands-on experience with SRE practices, including observability, incident response, automation, resilience testing, and operational readiness.
• Experience supporting Azure landing zones, network perimeters, ingress and egress DMZs, service integration layers, and shared Azure services.
• Direct experience operating secure Azure environments and supporting AI infrastructure workloads at scale.
• Experience supporting platforms that enable Microsoft Foundry and private OpenAI access.
• Strong knowledge of highly available service integration layers and enterprise networking environments.
• Demonstrable experience developing and maintaining operational runbooks.
• Strong automation and scripting skills, using tools such as Azure CLI, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or Bicep.
• Experience designing observability solutions for cloud platforms and shared services.
• The ability to define and apply reliability objectives, including availability, scalability, and operational performance targets.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence standards across platform engineering, networking, security, and infrastructure teams.

What’s on Offer In This Job

• Daily Rate of up to €550+
• Hybrid working environment that is 3 days a week in the office
• 12 Month Contract with a good likelihood of contract extensions

What’s Next

If you think this job is for you, apply now! Looking forward to talking to some great candidates!