Cloud SRE for Azure Infrastructure

We are looking to hire a Cloud SRE to help with our client's Azure infrastructure estate by contributing to discovery, planning, and supporting activities, including virtual machines, monitoring tools, networking, storage, and databases.

Day to day, you will monitor service health, resolve incidents, execute controlled changes, maintain patching and hardening standards, and improve reliability through automation, observability, and clear operational documentation.

This is a 6-month contract, to work remotely (outside IR35)

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure discovery and assessment - Build and maintain an inventory of servers, applications, and configurations.
• Change execution - Plan and execute changes, including applications deployments, configurations changes, and validation.
• Incident response - Investigate and resolve complex cross-platform incidents; lead root-cause analysis and drive permanent fixes.
• Automation & AIOps - Automate repetitive operational tasks and remediation (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and contribute to AIOps and self-healing to detect and resolve issues earlier.
• Cloud administration - Administer compute, storage, and OS-layer services in Azure; support application infrastructure.
• Observability & monitoring - Implement and tune monitoring, alerting, and dashboards; improve signal quality and reduce noise.
• Security & compliance - Apply hardening, patching, and access controls in line with PCI DSS and Planet security standards.
• Infrastructure-as-code - Contribute to IaC (Terraform) and configuration management to deliver consistent, repeatable environments.
• Documentation & mentoring - Create and maintain runbooks and SOPs; mentor junior engineers and uplift team capability.