Azure Cloud Engineer (SRE)

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.

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. You’ll 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Security, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams.

Create and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and knowledge articles.

Share technical knowledge and contribute to engineering best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

4–8 years of experience supporting enterprise production environments.

Strong hands-on experience administering production Kubernetes clusters, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and core components.

Experience managing Deployments, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, Jobs, CronJobs, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Services, and Ingress.

Experience with Kubernetes networking, storage, autoscaling, scheduling, and resource management.

Experience troubleshooting Kubernetes cluster, application, and networking issues.

Hands-on experience with Helm Charts and Kubernetes manifests.

Good understanding of Docker and container technologies.

Strong scripting experience using PowerShell and Python.

Proven experience developing operational automation and self-service solutions.

Experience automating Azure operations using Azure CLI, Azure SDKs, and REST APIs.

Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience using Bicep.

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

Experience integrating automation with monitoring, alerting, and operational workflows.

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure platform services.

Experience managing Azure resources in enterprise production environments.

Hands-on experience with:

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Virtual Machines

Virtual Networks

Network Security Groups (NSGs)

Load Balancers

Application Gateway

Azure Firewall

Storage Accounts

Azure Key Vault

App Services

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Azure DNS

VPN Gateway

Private Endpoints

Good understanding of Azure networking and hybrid connectivity concepts.

Experience implementing monitoring and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.

Experience with Prometheus and Grafana is preferred.

Experience creating dashboards, alerts, operational metrics, and health monitoring.

Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD).

Experience implementing Azure RBAC and Kubernetes RBAC.

Experience managing Managed Identities, Service Principals, and Workload Identity.

Experience using Azure Key Vault for secrets management.

Good understanding of cloud security best practices and platform hardening.

Experience supporting production cloud platforms with high availability requirements.

Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.

Experience with incident management, root cause analysis, and postmortems.

Familiarity with SRE principles including reliability engineering, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

Experience with capacity planning, performance optimization, and cost optimization.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (preferred)

Strong engineering mindset with a passion for automation.

Hands-on production Kubernetes experience rather than deployment-only exposure.

Passion for building scalable, resilient, and secure cloud platforms.

Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities.

Strong ownership and accountability.

Documentation-oriented with attention to operational excellence.

Self-driven, proactive, and collaborative.

Continuous learner with interest in cloud-native technologies and platform engineering.

Microsoft Azure

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

PowerShell

Python

Azure CLI

REST APIs

YAML

Bicep

Azure DevOps

Git

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Prometheus (Preferred)

Grafana (Preferred)

Microsoft Entra ID

Azure RBAC

Kubernetes RBAC

Azure Key Vault

Managed Identities

Workload Identity

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

CI/CD

Automation Engineering

GitOps

Incident Management

Postmortems

Continuous Improvement

Zero Trust Security

Required Qualifications:

Customer-service oriented with a problem-solving attitude;

Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential;

Entrepreneurial thinking and flexibility to change;

Very good English communication skills (concise writing and orally convincing);

Structured and clear writing skills;

Proven ability to solve complex business problems using analytical reasoning;

Demonstrated positive attitude, self-motivated, team player.

PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL CRITERIA: Eurofins has a strong focus on Performance Management system. This includes quarterly calibrations, half-yearly reviews and annual reviews. The KPIs shall be set and may vary slightly between projects. These will be clearly communicated, documented during the first 30 days of your joining.