Site Reliability Engineer SRE Azure SaaS

Site Reliability Engineer SRE Azure SaaS Cambridge, Cambridgeshire £85k - £100k per year

Site Reliability Engineer / SRE (Azure SaaS) Cambridge / WFH to £100k

Do you have expertise with observability and monitoring within a SaaS environment?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on, influential Site Reliability Engineer SRE role at a global InsurTech business, working on a flagship product that has recently been migrated to the cloud (Azure).

What's in it for you:

• £100k salary plus bonus (c20%)
• Hybrid working (2 days in the Cambridge office per week)
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days holiday (plus buy days and your birthday off)
• Pension, Health Care and Life Assurance
• Training and career development
• Social events and a range of other perks

Your role:

As the Site Reliability Engineer for this product you will establish the SRE processes, to ensure the reliability, availability and performance of client facing services, using tools such as Datadog within an Azure environment.

You'll lead the design and implementation of automation and processes to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering teams and support functions, acting as an SRE champion for the product and driving adoption of best practices.

You'll also remain hands-on with proactive monitoring of production and other environments to ensure stability, availability, security and integrity as well as leading incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis to mitigate and prevent future issues.

Location / WFH:

You'll join the team at the Cambridge office twice a week with flexibility to work from home the other three days.

About you:

• You have strong, hands-on experience as a Site Reliability Engineer / SRE or similar role e.g. DevOps, Platform Engineer with SRE responsibilities
• You're collaborative and pragmatic, able to influence others and drive change
• You're happy to mentor and coach others, sharing your SRE expertise with software engineers and DevOps
• You have a strong knowledge of Azure including observability, monitoring, scaling, security and Azure DevOps pipelines
• You have experience with observability tools, Datadog preferred
• You have a good knowledge of automation, scripting (Python or PowerShell) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, ARM Templates or Bicep)
• Azure certifications and C# coding skills desired but not essential