Site Reliability Engineer – Azure  – Lisbon – Portugal (2 days P/W in office)

#TeamCandour are working with a true industry disruptor as they embark on the next stage of their significant expansion plans to source a number of accomplished Site Reliability Engineers with experience working in the Azure cloud to join their growing team out of their Lisbon Technology Centre.

The company offers one of the best benefits packages we’ve seen – they really know how to look after their team and have industry awards to show it!

Key Technical Skills:

• Experience of working as an engineer, working on solutions in the cloud in Azure
• Previous experience of application support and operations
• Experience of working as an engineer, working on solutions in the cloud in Azure using Terraform for IAC
• A strong interest and awareness of all cloud providers and their services 
• Creative, proactive, logical and innovative – you do not accept the status quo – and will push hard for innovation and automation 
• Highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a very fast paced environment where the pace of response is critical to success   
• Exposure to the full project life cycle, from inception to user acceptance testing and live running and operations 
• Demonstrate good decision making, evaluating the implication of various options before deciding and then showing commitment to and accountability for that decision 
• Works well in cross-functional groups with peers, subordinates and seniors, encourages participation and involvement of team members through being open and approachable 

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with LM innovation squads helping to ensure our infrastructure in the Cloud is properly managed, secure and cost effective 
• Performing a traditional SRE role – with the goal of automating all things infrastructure – ensuring it is wholly scripted and deployed as part of an automated DevOps CI/CD pipeline with little or no human interaction – making good use of existing tools like Azure DevOps, Puppet, Docker, YAML and Terraform. 
• Ensuring our production and dev/test environments are secure, performant, scalable, consistent (through scripting) and monitored accordingly – so we can take proactive steps towards improving all of these aspects over time and are fully aware of existing issues. 
• Ensuring our cloud environments are secure and safe – setting up and making sure Private and Public subnets are appropriately and cost effectively secured. 
• Supporting squad engineers with the design and architecture of the overall solution – ensuring infrastructure is a key part of the overall consideration. 

A full job description & company information can be provided to anyone meeting the above minimum criteria, please apply in the first instance with your latest CV outlining your salary expectations & availability for an immediate response.

All interviewing & onboarding is currently being conducted remotely so it only takes a skipped lunchtime one day to explore what is an amazing opportunity!