Azure Site Reliability Engineer- Fully remote

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) – £450- £500/day OutsideIR35

6‑Month Contract | Fully Remote | Immediate Start

A leading technology‑driven organisation is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join on a 6‑month contract. This role is fully remote and ideal for someone who thrives in a service‑focused, continuous‑improvement environment.

You’ll be responsible for keeping critical services stable, secure, and performant while driving improvements across infrastructure, automation, and operational workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve production services with a focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence
• Own and enhance Azure‑based infrastructure, ensuring clean, scalable, and well‑documented environments
• Lead improvements across CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and operational tooling
• Troubleshoot and optimise traffic routing, security, and performance across Azure networking components
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, reducing toil and increasing automation
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure best practices are followed across deployments and service operations

Essential Skills

• Azure DevOps – broad experience across pipelines, repos, service operations, and automation
• Azure Front Door – strong hands‑on experience with configuration, routing, WAF, and performance optimisation
• Azure Application Gateway – deep understanding of rules, listeners, routing, and security
• Infrastructure as Code – Terraform and GitHub‑based workflows
• Azure Containers – experience with containerised workloads (AKS, ACI, or similar)
• Strong SRE mindset: service health, continuous improvement, operational hygiene, and reducing manual effort

Unfortunately, this role does not offer sponsorship.

If your looking for a new challenge and this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply with your most Up-to-Date CV, please contact me at scarlett.jankowski@opusrs.com

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Leeds

Type of Contract

Full Time Jobs

Published at

17-02-2026

Profession type

ICT

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English