Senior Infrastructure Quality Engineer (Azure)

Location: Hybrid between home and the Haymarket office in Edinburgh; remote work may be considered for candidates based in the UK. The role is full-time, typically 09:00–17:30 Monday to Friday, with flexible hours.

Salary: £47,500–£57,500 per year, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global is an award-winning software scale-up building an AI-powered resource management platform for professional services firms, combining AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights.

What you will do

• Define and implement pragmatic testing approaches and quality gates for infrastructure and platform changes.
• Validate CI/CD workflows, IaC release promotion across sandbox, development, internal QA, staging, and production, version compatibility, rollback, and recovery mechanisms.
• Test failure scenarios, partial deployments, infrastructure misconfiguration, service degradation, dependency failures, configuration drift, and environment inconsistencies.
• Build automated validation for infrastructure and platform behaviour within or alongside pipelines.
• Coach engineers, SREs, junior QA Engineers, and Infrastructure Engineers on observability, resilience, testability, and reliable releases.
• Communicate risks and trade-offs and evolve infrastructure quality practices as the platform scales.

Requirements

• Significant experience owning quality assurance for infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code, with infrastructure quality as a core area of expertise.
• Strong understanding of risk-based testing and pragmatic quality trade-offs based on risk, impact, and release confidence.
• Experience defining and evolving infrastructure testing strategies, tooling, and practices for complex deployment and release processes.
• Ability to work in ambiguous or evolving problem spaces, define new approaches, challenge assumptions, and influence technical decisions.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and understanding of quality considerations for cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub, particularly CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure changes, and deployment workflows.
• Strong communication skills for clearly identifying and explaining technical and quality risks.
• Desire to coach and mentor QA Engineers and develop technical and quality engineering capabilities.

Nice to have

• Performance or load testing experience.
• Experience working with SRE or Platform teams.
• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools.

Culture & Benefits

• £1,000 per year for professional and personal development.
• 33 days of holiday including bank holidays, increasing to a maximum of 40 days, plus a paid four-week sabbatical in the fifth anniversary year.
• Enhanced family leave, private healthcare through AXA, income protection, death-in-service cover, and a matched 5% workplace pension.
• Wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme and counselling service, plus up to 20 hours of paid volunteering time per year.
• Regular All Hands meetings and monthly team socials with in-person and virtual options.
• Hybrid flexibility with no mandated office days, although most team members work from the office two to three days per week.

Hiring process

• Applications may include a cover letter outlining transferable skills or experience where the background is not an exact match.
• The successful candidate will be subject to background checks and may declare relevant information beforehand.