Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (GCP/Azure)

TL;DR

Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (GCP/Azure): Strengthening observability, reliability, and operational excellence across a public cloud estate, enabling a leading FinTech ambition. Focus on embedding SRE principles, leading a team, and driving continuous improvement in cloud platforms.

Location: Hybrid (2 days in office per week) in Halifax, Leeds, or Manchester, United Kingdom

Salary: £92,701–£109,060

Company

hirify.global is redefining itself into a modern, innovative, purposeful organisation, heavily investing in cloud, automation, and engineering excellence to become the UK’s leading FinTech.

What you will do

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing SRE team.
• Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to embed reliability into roadmaps.
• Apply SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) for reliable and scalable services.
• Drive observability improvements across metrics, logs, and traces, using Dynatrace.
• Own Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD environments, implementing enhancements.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis.

Requirements

• Proven experience applying SRE practices within Azure, GCP, or both, and a strong understanding of SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Experience ensuring reliability of production services, including availability, performance, and recoverability.
• Hands-on or leadership experience in incident and problem management, focused on reducing MTTR.
• Background in software or cloud engineering with modern SDLC, DevOps, CI/CD, and automation practices.
• Ability to use data to influence prioritisation and balance reliability with feature delivery.
• Experience mentoring engineers and promoting inclusive team culture.

Nice to have

• Certifications or strong experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Microsoft Azure.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, compute services, API management.
• Experience with Terraform, Jenkins, Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Solid grasp of cloud networking, security, and systems built around APIs.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, modular design, and scalable automation patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-related bonus.
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Generous pension contribution and private medical insurance.
• Flexible benefits and family-friendly policies.
• Hybrid working model.
• Access to wellbeing support, training, and career development.
• Commitment to an inclusive environment valuing diversity.