Site Reliability Engineer (Google Cloud)

TL;DR

Site Reliability Engineer (GCP): Building and optimizing public cloud infrastructure and CI/CD services for a financial services platform with an accent on reliability, scalability, and automation. Focus on solving complex engineering challenges, ensuring operational health, and integrating AI into workflows.

Location: Hybrid Working in Leeds, Bristol, Halifax, or Manchester, UK. Participation in an out-of-hours support rota is required.

Salary: £47,790–£53,100

Company

hirify.global is a financial services institution focused on helping Britain prosper.

What you will do

• Apply hands-on engineering to maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD-based services.
• Deliver enhancements that improve reliability, scalability, and customer experience.
• Reduce toil and improve efficiency through automation and new tooling adoption.
• Drive operational perfection across monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, and cost optimisation.
• Be responsible for the health of production and non-production environments and lead incident response activities.
• Investigate and fix service-related issues using code-first engineering approaches.

Requirements

• Strong DevOps and cloud-engineering background, including IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Harness, Azure DevOps or similar).
• Experience working with a broad range of public-cloud technologies, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Ability to write, update, and maintain scripts (Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Bash).
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and structured logical thinking.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools.

Nice to have

• Experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation.
• Certifications in GCP or another cloud provider (e.g., Azure).
• Transferable experience from sysadmin, software engineering or other technical subject areas.
• Curiosity and aim to learn continuously, applying emerging cloud best practices.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working options and opportunities for job share.
• A performance-based share bonus and flexible benefits allowance.
• A generous pension contribution and private health cover.
• Up to 30 days annual leave (plus ability to purchase more).
• Access to a range of colleague share schemes.
• Commitment to building an inclusive organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity.