Azure Cloud Engineer (SRE)

Job Title: Cloud Engineer (SRE) Azure Platform
Location: Bangalore (Hybrid 3 Days WFO)
Reports To: SRE Manager
Experience Level: 4 to 8 Years

Job Summary
We are looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Cloud Engineering and Operations team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring high availability performance and reliability of our cloud-hosted systems particularly in Microsoft Azure environments. This role combines software engineering practices with operational excellence to build scalable automated and resilient infrastructure. Youll work closely with developers security teams and platform engineers to implement best practices reduce toil and proactively manage incidents and risks across production environments.

Key Responsibilities

Kubernetes Platform Engineering

• Operate maintain and optimize production Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
• Perform Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management including upgrades scaling capacity planning and patching.
• Troubleshoot production issues involving Kubernetes clusters networking storage and containerized applications.
• Improve Kubernetes platform reliability performance availability and operational efficiency.
• Implement Kubernetes security and governance best practices.
• Support production deployments and collaborate with development teams to ensure application reliability.

Automation & Platform Engineering

• Design and implement automation solutions to eliminate repetitive operational tasks.
• Develop reusable automation frameworks self-service capabilities and operational tooling.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning deployment configuration monitoring and maintenance processes.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through engineering and automation.
• Contribute to an Automation First culture across the platform engineering team.

Cloud Platform Operations

• Manage and support Azure cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Ensure production environments remain secure highly available and operationally efficient.
• Perform capacity planning performance tuning and platform optimization.
• Support production releases and infrastructure changes.

Monitoring Reliability & Incident Management

• Design maintain and improve platform monitoring alerting and observability.
• Respond to production incidents troubleshoot platform issues and restore service quickly.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident management activities.
• Continuously improve platform reliability using SRE best practices.

Infrastructure & Security

• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Azure platform provisioning.
• Support identity access management and security controls across Azure and Kubernetes.
• Ensure infrastructure complies with enterprise security standards and governance requirements.
• Support disaster recovery backup validation and business continuity initiatives.

Collaboration & Documentation

• Collaborate with Development DevOps Security Architecture and Infrastructure teams.
• Create and maintain operational documentation runbooks architecture diagrams and knowledge articles.
• Share technical knowledge and contribute to engineering best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

Kubernetes (Mandatory)

• 48 years of experience supporting enterprise production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience administering production Kubernetes clusters preferably Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components.
• Experience managing Deployments StatefulSets DaemonSets Jobs CronJobs ConfigMaps Secrets Services and Ingress.
• Experience with Kubernetes networking storage autoscaling scheduling and resource management.
• Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes cluster application and networking issues.
• Hands-on experience with Helm Charts and Kubernetes manifests.
• Good understanding of Docker and container technologies.

Automation (Mandatory)

• Strong scripting experience using PowerShell and Python.
• Proven experience developing operational automation and self-service solutions.
• Experience automating Azure operations using Azure CLI Azure SDKs and REST APIs.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Bicep.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Experience integrating automation with monitoring alerting and operational workflows.

Microsoft Azure

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure platform services.
• Experience managing Azure resources in enterprise production environments.
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Virtual Machines
  • Virtual Networks
  • Network Security Groups (NSGs)
  • Load Balancers
  • Application Gateway
  • Azure Firewall
  • Storage Accounts
  • Azure Key Vault
  • App Services
  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Application Insights
  • Azure DNS
  • VPN Gateway
  • Private Endpoints
• Good understanding of Azure networking and hybrid connectivity concepts.

Monitoring & Observability

• Experience implementing monitoring and alerting using Azure Monitor Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana is preferred.
• Experience creating dashboards alerts operational metrics and health monitoring.

Identity & Security

• Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD).
• Experience implementing Azure RBAC and Kubernetes RBAC.
• Experience managing Managed Identities Service Principals and Workload Identity.
• Experience using Azure Key Vault for secrets management.
• Good understanding of cloud security best practices and platform hardening.

SRE & Operations

• Experience supporting production cloud platforms with high availability requirements.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Experience with incident management root cause analysis and postmortems.
• Familiarity with SRE principles including reliability engineering operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Experience with capacity planning performance optimization and cost optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (preferred)

Preferred Qualities

• Strong engineering mindset with a passion for automation.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes experience rather than deployment-only exposure.
• Passion for building scalable resilient and secure cloud platforms.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong ownership and accountability.
• Documentation-oriented with attention to operational excellence.
• Self-driven proactive and collaborative.
• Continuous learner with interest in cloud-native technologies and platform engineering.

Tech Stack

Cloud

• Microsoft Azure

Container Platform

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Helm

Automation & Scripting

• PowerShell
• Python
• Azure CLI
• REST APIs
• YAML

Infrastructure as Code

• Bicep

DevOps & Source Control

• Azure DevOps
• Git

Monitoring & Observability

• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Application Insights
• Prometheus (Preferred)
• Grafana (Preferred)

Identity & Security

• Microsoft Entra ID
• Azure RBAC
• Kubernetes RBAC
• Azure Key Vault
• Managed Identities
• Workload Identity

Engineering Practices

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• CI/CD
• Automation Engineering
• GitOps
• Incident Management
• Postmortems
• Continuous Improvement
• Zero Trust Security

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications:
Bachelors in Engineering or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent

Additional Information :

Personal Skills:

• Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude;
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential;
• Entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility to change;
• Very good English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing);
• Structured and clear writing skills;
• Proven ability to solve complex business problems using analytical reasoning;
• Demonstrated positive attitude self-motivated team player.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA: Eurofins has a strong focus on Performance Management system. This includes quarterly calibrations half-yearly reviews and annual reviews. The KPIs shall be set and may vary slightly between projects. These will be clearly communicated documented during the first 30 days of your joining.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time