Must Have Technical/Functional Skills Cloud & Platform Engineering (Expert Level) Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, including: Compute (VMs, App Services, Azure Container Apps) Containers & Orchestration (AKS, Docker) Networking (VNETs, Private Endpoints, Application Gateway, Load Balancers) Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics Proven experience designing enterprise grade, highly available cloud platforms Strong understanding of hybrid and multi cloud architectures (AWS / Google Cloud Platform exposure preferred) DevOps & Engineering Excellence Advanced experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline architecture Infrastructure automation using Terraform (modules, state management, governance) Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash) GitOps concepts, branching strategies, release orchestration Site Reliability Engineering (Leadership Level) Ownership of platform reliability, resiliency, and performance Definition and governance of: SLIs, SLOs, SLAs Error budgets and reliability metrics Advanced observability strategy: Metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards using Dynatrace Incident response leadership, RCA facilitation, and long term remediation planning Experience operating 99.9%-99.99% availability systems Containers, APIs & Integration Leadership-level experience with AKS-based platforms, ingress, and scaling strategies Understanding of microservices, API-led and event-driven architectures Familiarity with Azure Integration Services (Service Bus, Event Hub, API Management) Security, Compliance & Cost Secure cloud design using Key Vault, managed identities, RBAC Cost optimization (FinOps mindset) across cloud infrastructure Roles & Responsibilities Act as Lead SRE for client''s Digital platforms, owning reliability and stability outcomes Define and enforce SRE standards, best practices, and operating models Architect and govern highly available, scalable cloud platforms Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD and IaC strategies Establish proactive monitoring, alerting, and incident prevention mechanisms Own major incident leadership, RCA execution, and corrective action tracking Partner with application, security, and architecture teams to build reliability by design Drive automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency Mentor and coach SRE and DevOps engineers across teams Influence roadmap decisions with a reliability, scalability, and cost lens