Public Cloud Azure SRE Engineer (Azure)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (Azure): Building and optimizing a secure, resilient, and environmentally conscious public cloud platform with an accent on Azure services, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines. Focus on managing and resolving incidents, improving operational excellence, and driving automation to enhance reliability and developer experience.

Location: Hybrid in Leeds, Bristol, Halifax, or Manchester, UK

Salary: £47,790–£53,100

Company

hirify.global is a major financial services corporation modernizing its technology platforms and transforming cloud usage to deliver secure, resilient, and innovative services.

What you will do

• Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD based products and services.
• Improve reliability and customer experience through automation and reduced manual effort.
• Drive operational excellence across monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, and cost optimisation.
• Take accountability for production and non-production environment health.
• Investigate and resolve service issues, implementing fixes and improvements through code.
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies and support continuous learning within the team.

Requirements

• Strong DevOps experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines (Terraform, Jenkins, Harness, or Azure DevOps).
• Experience with a broad range of public cloud technologies, specifically Microsoft Azure (AKS, Azure Policy, Batch, Key Vault, SQL, Storage, API Management).
• Ability to write and maintain scripts (Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Bash).
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles.
• Strong problem-solving capability and structured thinking.
• Experience with monitoring tools and techniques.
• Work format: Hybrid, requiring presence in Leeds, Bristol, Halifax, or Manchester, UK.

Nice to have

• Experience using SDKs and APIs for automation.
• Certifications in Azure or another cloud provider (e.g., GCP).
• Transferable experience from sysadmin, software engineering or similar technical fields.

Culture & Benefits

• A performance-based share bonus.
• A flexible benefits allowance and generous pension contribution.
• Private health cover and up to 30 days annual leave (plus the ability to purchase more).
• Access to colleague share schemes.
• Commitment to equal opportunity and an inclusive workplace culture.