Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/SRE (Contract)

Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/SRE (Contract)

Location: Ireland/EU Contract type: Contract

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Azure Infrastructure Engineer to support application infrastructure and reliability from discovery through to implementation. You'll work across a large-scale Azure estate - approximately 150 applications and 2,500 virtual machines - within a significant PCI DSS compliance scope.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure discovery & assessment - build and maintain an inventory of Servers, applications, and configurations
• Change execution - plan and execute application deployments, configuration 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); contribute to AIOps and self-healing initiatives
• Cloud administration - administer compute, storage, and OS-layer services in Azure
• 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 internal security standards
• Infrastructure-as-code - contribute to IaC (Terraform) and configuration management for consistent, repeatable environments
• Documentation & mentoring - create and maintain runbooks and SOPs; mentor junior engineers

Must-Have Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure infrastructure experience
• Proven experience migrating/supporting workloads from VMware/ESX or private cloud into Azure
• Strong Windows Server administration, including Legacy versions (2008/2012) through modern (2016/2019/2022)
• Solid understanding of Active Directory, DNS, certificates, service accounts, GPOs, IIS, and Windows operational dependencies
• Good SQL Server infrastructure knowledge - connectivity, backup, HA/DR concepts, performance, support readiness
• Strong PowerShell Scripting ability
• Experience with Azure networking (VNets, subnets, NSGs, routing, private connectivity, segmentation)
• Experience with Terraform and/or Azure Bicep
• Experience in ITSM/change-controlled environments
• Strong cross-layer troubleshooting: infrastructure, network, OS, database connectivity, application hosting

Required Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) - required
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) - preferred

Nice to Have

• Experience with Finance sector applications
• PCI DSS compliance experience
• Experience supporting Legacy applications
• Familiarity with Coralogix

What Success Looks Like

Hands-on, reliable support across a large Azure cloud estate - ~150 applications and ~2,500 VMs - within a demanding PCI DSS compliance environment.