Azure Cloud Engineer (SRE)

Company Description Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and AgroScience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products. In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products. In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion; and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years. Job Description Job Title: Cloud Engineer (SRE) Azure Platform Location: Bangalore (Hybrid, 3 Days WFO) Reports To: SRE Manager Experience Level: 4 to 8 Years Job Summary We are looking for a skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Cloud Engineering and Operations team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring high availability, performance, and reliability of our cloud-hosted systems, particularly in Microsoft Azure environments. This role combines software engineering practices with operational excellence to build scalable, automated, and resilient infrastructure. Youll work closely with developers, security teams, and platform engineers to implement best practices, reduce toil, and proactively manage incidents and risks across production environments. Key Responsibilities Kubernetes Platform Engineering Operate, maintain, and optimize production Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Perform Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management including upgrades, scaling, capacity planning, and patching. Troubleshoot production issues involving Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, and containerized applications. Improve Kubernetes platform reliability, performance, availability, and operational efficiency. Implement Kubernetes security and governance best practices. Support production deployments and collaborate with development teams to ensure application reliability. Automation & Platform Engineering Design and implement automation solutions to eliminate repetitive operational tasks. Develop reusable automation frameworks, self-service capabilities, and operational tooling. Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance processes. Continuously identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through engineering and automation. Contribute to an Automation First culture across the platform engineering team. Cloud Platform Operations Manage and support Azure cloud infrastructure and platform services. Ensure production environments remain secure, highly available, and operationally efficient. Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and platform optimization. Support production releases and infrastructure changes. Monitoring, Reliability & Incident Management Design, maintain, and improve platform monitoring, alerting, and observability. Respond to production incidents, troubleshoot platform issues, and restore service quickly. Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement permanent corrective actions. Participate in on-call rotations and incident management activities. Continuously improve platform reliability using SRE best practices. Infrastructure & Security Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Azure platform provisioning. Support identity, access management, and security controls across Azure and Kubernetes. Ensure infrastructure complies with enterprise security standards and governance requirements. Support disaster recovery, backup validation, and business continuity initiatives. Collaboration & Documentation Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Security, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams. Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks .