Senior DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer at Datonomy Solutions

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.

Key Responsibilities DevOps & Platform Engineering

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.

CI/CD & Release 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.

Site Reliability Engineering

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) .

Azure Cloud Engineering

Design, implement and operate enterprise  Microsoft Azure  environments.

• Work extensively with technologies such as:

Azure Kubernetes Service ( AKS )

• Azure App Services

• Azure Networking

• Azure Monitor

• Azure Storage

• 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.

Containers & Kubernetes

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.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation Hands-on experience with technologies such as:

Terraform

• Bicep

• ARM Templates

• Ansible

Candidates should be comfortable using Infrastructure as Code to build repeatable, scalable and governed enterprise infrastructure.

Monitoring & Observability

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.

Relevant technologies may include

Dynatrace

• Grafana

• Prometheus

• Elastic Stack / ELK

• Splunk

• Azure Monitor

• OpenTelemetry

DevSecOps & Security

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.

Technical Leadership

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.

Minimum Experience

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.

Essential Technical Skills Cloud

Microsoft Azure

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

• Azure Networking

• Azure App Services

• Azure Monitor

• Azure Storage

• Azure Identity

DevOps / CI/CD

Azure DevOps

• GitHub / Git

• Jenkins

• SonarQube

• Artifactory and/or Nexus

Infrastructure Automation

Terraform

• Bicep

• ARM Templates

• Ansible

Containers

Kubernetes

• Docker

• Helm

Observability

Dynatrace

• Grafana

• Prometheus

• Elastic Stack

• Splunk

• Azure Monitor

• OpenTelemetry

Scripting / Development Strong scripting or programming ability using technologies such as:

Python

• PowerShell

• Bash

• C#

• Java

Go experience would be advantageous.

Core Technical Competencies

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

Behavioural Competencies

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

Qualifications A Bachelor's Degree or equivalent technical qualification in one of the following areas is preferred:

Computer Science

• Information Technology

• Software Engineering

• Information Systems

Preferred Certifications Relevant certifications would be advantageous, including:

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

Ideal Candidate 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.

Desired Skills

• Senior DevOps Engineer
• Site Reliability Engineer
• SRE