Senior Platform Engineer (Azure)

Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom; the role is available in three locations.

Company

hirify.global delivers digital services, Workday solutions, and technology transformation services.

What you will do

• Design significant components of modern digital service platforms, including automation, build, deployment, and support.
• Work with engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security colleagues to build, test, and deploy high-quality software.
• Make technical decisions that improve scalability, security, reliability, performance, and business value.
• Support services in live production operation, continuously improving availability, security, and performance.
• Contribute to an inclusive DevOps culture and coach and mentor junior team members.

Requirements

• Strong teamwork and experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Significant expertise with multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, automation, and container orchestration tools.
• Fluency in at least one of PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, or Groovy.
• Experience designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, and supporting significant components of modern digital service platforms in production.
• Experience producing scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective designs that minimise lock-in.
• Experience contributing to architecture, estimation, product planning, user story and requirements creation, technical direction, and MVP advocacy.
• Experience implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes, applying infrastructure and application best practices, using AWS public cloud platforms, using Git, and debugging complex problems across multiple servers, services, and tools.
• Active Security Clearance is required.

Nice to have

• Third-level or equivalent qualification in a related discipline.
• Mid-level certification with a public cloud provider, specifically Azure.
• Participation in knowledge-sharing activities with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with cloud-native SaaS and PaaS technologies.
• Experience managing, mentoring, and coaching junior staff.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first culture focused on collaboration, inclusion, learning, and professional growth.
• Work alongside multidisciplinary colleagues and receive support from experienced teammates.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and equal opportunity.
• Accommodations and adjustments are available through a private conversation with the talent acquisition team.