Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

TL;DR

Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Design, build, and operate secure, automated cloud platform capabilities supporting API Gateway solutions and a broader set of Integration cloud products with an accent on engineering excellence, automation and AI‑driven efficiency. Focus on enabling API‑first delivery with reusable patterns and golden paths for API producers/consumers, contributing to documentation and enablement.

Location: Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Halifax & Edinburgh. Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices.

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810

Company

hirify.global helps Britain prosper and is transforming its business to shape finance as a force for good.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate platform capabilities using Infrastructure‑as‑Code and modern CI/CD.
• Partner with architecture and feature teams to evolve cloud roadmap and platform products.
• Embed a secure‑by‑design mindset and controls from design to runtime, safeguarding colleagues and customers.
• Define and operate against SLOs/SLIs and implement actionable observability, performance tuning, and automation to reduce toil.
• Enable API‑first delivery with reusable patterns and golden paths for API producers/consumers and contribute to documentation and enablement.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to communities of practice, upholding Platform Engineering standards.

Requirements

• Track record delivering large‑scale systems with performance, availability and fault‑tolerance; experience setting SLOs/SLIs.
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code with Terraform (minimum) and one or more modern CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins or Spinnaker).
• Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes) and service‑mesh patterns (e.g., Istio).
• API design and security (REST/OpenAPI, authN/Z, mTLS and certificate lifecycle).
• Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
• Depth in Azure: ARM/Bicep/Template Spec, AKS, Application Gateway, Azure Storage.

Nice to have

• API Management (policies/C# basics)
• Harness experience in CI/CD
• HashiCorp Vault
• Dynatrace
• Docker/buildah/Podman
• Relevant Azure certifications

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive environment valuing diversity.
• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.