Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

Senior Azure Engineer – SRE/DevOps

Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Waukegan • Illinois • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AzureDNSFirewallsGrafanaLinuxNode.jsPrometheusPythonRedisSQLTerraformVault

About the role

  • Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services (e.g., VNet, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Azure Firewall/NSGs, Application Gateway/WAF)
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and/or Bicep; enforce GitOps workflows (branching, PRs, policy checks)
  • Create reusable modules, pipelines, and golden patterns for app teams; champion automation-first approaches
  • Define and measure SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps for critical services
  • Implement and tune observability (logs, metrics, traces) using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana where applicable
  • Conduct capacity planning, resiliency testing (chaos, failover, DR), and performance tuning across services
  • Build secure, robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines) with automated testing, scans, and approvals
  • Standardize deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for containerized and PaaS workloads
  • Manage container platforms (AKS: node pools, cluster autoscaling, HPA/VPA, ingress, network policies) and registries (ACR)
  • Implement guardrails using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, and Blueprints (or equivalent) to enforce least privilege and compliance (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA as relevant)
  • Manage secrets and certificates (Key Vault) and integrate security testing (SAST/DAST/Container scanning) into pipelines
  • Support vulnerability remediation and patching SLAs
  • Own incident response, including rotational shifts and on-call; lead triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews
  • Optimize cost (FinOps), tagging standards, budgets, and proactive spending alerts
  • Maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and automation for routine operations
  • Act as a technical mentor; review designs/PRs; contribute to architecture decisions
  • Partner with app teams to onboard workloads, define nonfunctional requirements, and drive platform adoption

Requirements

  • 7 years of hands-on experience with Azure-based infrastructure and services in production
  • Deep expertise in several of: AKS, App Services, Functions, APIM, Azure SQL/MI, Cosmos DB, Storage, Event Hub/Service Bus, Redis, VNet/Peering, Private Link, Application Gateway/WAF, Front Door
  • Strong IaC with Terraform (preferred) and/or Bicep; Git-based workflows; GitHub or Azure DevOps
  • Proven SRE background: SLI/SLO design, error budgets, incident management, RCA, capacity and performance engineering
  • CI/CD design and operations (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines); artifact/versioning strategies; release governance
  • Observability with Azure: Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting/automations (Action Groups, Logic Apps, Functions)
  • Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, load balancing), identity (AAD/Entra ID), and secrets management (Key Vault)
  • Scripting proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python; Linux fundamentals
  • Understanding of security best practices: RBAC, PIM, Azure Policy, managed identities
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Azure landing zonesInfrastructure as CodeTerraformBicepCI/CD pipelinesSREobservabilityscriptingnetworking fundamentalssecurity best practices
Soft Skills
technical mentorincident responseroot cause analysiscapacity planningperformance tuningautomation-first approachcollaborationleadershipcommunicationproblem-solving