The role will require the successful candidate to:

 Ensure production systems run reliably at all times, that availability, performance and business process SLAs are met or exceeded
• Manage Cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities
• Spend 50% of time on operational activities and 50 % on improvements that deliver engineering solutions that improve instrumentation, ease of deployment, service orchestration and other aspects of production support reduce the burden of manual work involved as systems and user volumes scale
• Take responsibility for all aspects of application production support, deployment and monitoring and develop tools to support these activities
• Support mission critical applications and associated platforms, ensuring the highest levels of availability, security, performance and stability are maintained at all times
• Design and build tools and solutions with a strong bias towards automating as many aspects of support as possible to reduce or eliminate trivial support activities
• Ensure newly deployed systems / services can be integrated into the existing monitoring and management tools so that the performance of the service and deviations are easily anticipated and instrumented

The candidate should have:

• A strong expertise in Microsoft Azure - your addition to our team is expected to "Raise the Bar" of our team's Azure capabilities
• Significant development and operations / engineering experience with the ability to apply that knowledge in order to solve complex problems
• Subject matter expertise of Azure Resource Manager, Monitor, Alerts, Security Centre, DevOps, Azure Policy, RBAC and application Source code such as Java/C++/C#
• A blend of skills, including sysadmin, security, automation and the ability to code with a strong knowledge of OS and Application Source Code, Expert Level ARM Templating, Container Fabrics, Networking, Alerting and Monitoring
• A complex understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle and be ready to take requests for infrastructure services, applications and environments
• Experience designing solutions (Monitoring / process orchestration / capacity management / deployment) that can scale and potentially be leveraged by other parts of the organisation
• Hands on experience working in both Agile and DevOps development methodologies
• Expect to demonstrate these capabilities through our selection process which will include technical tests, peer interviews and client interviews.