Public Cloud Azure SRE Engineer (Azure)

TL;DR

Public Cloud Azure SRE Engineer (Azure): Building and optimizing a secure, resilient, and environmentally conscious cloud platform with an accent on Microsoft Azure technologies for financial services. Focus on managing incidents, improving operational excellence, driving automation, and contributing to the next-generation technical platform for various workloads including GenAI/ML.

Location: Hybrid working is required from Leeds, Bristol, Halifax, or Manchester, UK.

Salary: £47,790–£53,100

Company

hirify.global is rebooting an icon and building the future of finance, modernising its technology platforms and transforming cloud usage to help Britain prosper.

What you will do

• Manage and resolve incidents, driving automation and reducing toil.
• Improve operational excellence across monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, and reliability.
• Apply hands-on engineering to maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD products.
• Investigate and resolve service issues by implementing fixes and improvements through code.
• Participate in an out-of-hours support rota.
• 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 (e.g., Dynatrace).
• Must be able to work in a hybrid format from 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

• Performance-based share bonus.
• Flexible benefits allowance.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Private health cover.
• 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.