Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) – £450- £500/day 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
Nice to Have
  • Experience improving operational maturity in growing engineering teams
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, routing, and distributed systems
  • Familiarity with monitoring/alerting best practices
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Job Details

Company
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Location
New Works, Telford, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Contractor
Salary
£450 - £500 per annum
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