Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Azure & Terraform - Contract - Outside IR35
Mindera
Software Engineering
London, UK
Posted on Sep 17, 2025
Mindera is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in Terraform and hands-on experience building and managing infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.
This position requires 3 days per week on client site in London.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and manage infrastructure in Azure using Terraform and related tooling.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules that enable repeatable, secure, and scalable deployments.
- Build CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning, testing, and delivery.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to improve system reliability and performance.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues and ensure high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Partner with developers and architects to embed reliability, scalability, and security into system design.
- Contribute to SRE practices including capacity planning, error budgets, and incident response.
- Document processes, runbooks, and best practices for infrastructure management.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven hands-on experience deploying and managing Azure infrastructure (e.g., AKS, Azure Functions, App Services, VNets, Key Vault, Storage, etc.).
- Strong proficiency in Terraform (including modules, workspaces, state management, and Terraform Cloud/Enterprise).
- Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, and IAM principles in Azure.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or equivalent).
- Knowledge of containers and Kubernetes (preferably AKS).
- Scripting experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Go) to support automation.
- Understanding of SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, chaos testing, and incident management.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
Competitive day rate