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Azure Site Reliability Engineer- Fully remote


Company : Opus Recruitment Solutions


Location : Edinburgh, Scotland


Created : 2026-02-23


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Site Reliability Engineer (Contract) – £450- £500/day OutsideIR356‐Month Contract | Fully Remote | Immediate StartA 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 ResponsibilitiesMaintain and improve production services with a focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellenceOwn and enhance Azure‐based infrastructure, ensuring clean, scalable, and well‐documented environmentsLead improvements across CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and operational toolingTroubleshoot and optimise traffic routing, security, and performance across Azure networking componentsContribute to continuous improvement initiatives, reducing toil and increasing automationCollaborate with engineering teams to ensure best practices are followed across deployments and service operationsEssential SkillsAzure DevOps – broad experience across pipelines, repos, service operations, and automationAzure Front Door – strong hands‐on experience with configuration, routing, WAF, and performance optimisationAzure Application Gateway – deep understanding of rules, listeners, routing, and securityInfrastructure as Code – Terraform and GitHub‐based workflowsAzure Containers – experience with containerised workloads (AKS, ACI, or similar)Strong SRE mindset: service health, continuous improvement, operational hygiene, and reducing manual effortUnfortunately, 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@