Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud Operations)

About the role

Baxter is looking for a highly experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its team in Gloucester. The role covers administration, operation support and monitoring of customer-facing digital health software applications and platforms running on the Baxter Azure cloud, and defines and documents processes to keep security, privacy and compliance standards in place.

Key responsibilities

• Drive strategies for 24x7 availability and business continuity of healthcare software hosted on Microsoft Azure
• Manage and administer Azure resources such as virtual machines, databases and networking components
• Document operating procedures to maintain security, privacy and compliance standards
• Manage disaster recovery and business continuity planning, and define and refine operations SLAs
• Set up monitoring dashboards and notification workflows, and define measurable KPIs
• Standardise site metrics for partners, covering SLAs, availability, capacity, service metrics and cost
• Work with DevOps engineers to automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Prior experience in site reliability engineering and cloud-based infrastructure management
• Enterprise engineering experience, including 24x7 uptime, regulated environments and planning/operations
• Systems administration experience in Windows and Linux environments
• Proven problem-solving skills, scripting and automation experience, and ability to write accurate documentation and reports

Required skills

• Azure administration and operations (certifications a plus)
• Knowledge of cloud, encryption and security protocols

What we offer

• Competitive annual salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service
• 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with on-call rotation notified in advance every 1-2 months
• Up to 8% pension contribution
• Subsidised canteen, Westfield healthcare and employee discount scheme
• Employee assistance programme and strong internal progression opportunities