Manager, Systems Engineering (Cloud Platform)

TL;DR

Manager, Systems Engineering (Cloud Platform): Leading the Platform Team to ensure reliability, scalability, and efficiency of cloud infrastructure and internal developer tools with an accent on defining and maintaining SLOs, incident response, and automation. Focus on driving technical excellence, fostering resilience, and continuous improvement in a distributed environment.

Location: This is a remote role based in the United Kingdom, with occasional in-person collaboration in Manchester.

Salary: £104,000–£156,000 GBP

Company

hirify.global is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

What you will do

• Define and maintain service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets for production systems.
• Ensure systems are highly reliable, scalable, and secure, following cloud and SRE best practices.
• Partner with Development, Security, and Product Engineering teams to align infrastructure initiatives with the strategic roadmap.
• Oversee incident response processes, post-mortems, and continual improvements to reduce recurrence and mitigate risk.
• Drive automation and tooling to reduce manual toil across Azure environments and CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability standards for production and pre-production environments.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading platform, SRE, or systems engineering teams.
• Deep knowledge of Azure architecture, services, and IaC (Terraform preferred).
• Experience defining and tracking SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Knowledge of incident management and post-mortem culture in SRE environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD systems (Buildkite, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes, containerization, and distributed system operations.
• Solid software development skills (Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash).
• English: C1+ required.

Nice to have

• Experience managing multi-region Azure environments at scale.
• Familiarity with service ownership models and on-call rotation practices.
• Experience with cost optimization and FinOps principles in cloud environments.
• Previous hands-on experience implementing runbooks, automation frameworks, and self-healing systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salary as part of hirify.global’s Total Rewards Program.
• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
• Private Healthcare with Life Insurance & Critical Illness cover.
• Pension contribution.
• Professional development and growth options.
• hirify.globalversary recognition program.