Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud)

TL;DR

Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud): Designing, building, and operating cloud security frameworks and tooling for public and private cloud platforms with an accent on automated security controls and cloud security posture. Focus on leading engineering teams, implementing Infrastructure as Code, and ensuring production service reliability and security.

Location: Hybrid work with at least 40% presence in offices located in Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, or Manchester, United Kingdom.

Salary: £72,702 - £80,780

Company

hirify.global is a leading UK financial institution focused on customer-centric digital transformation and security.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and deploy software-defined infrastructure and cloud security tooling.
• Lead small engineering teams delivering security-focused products.
• Build automated security controls using CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and Policy as Code.
• Own production services across public cloud platforms ensuring availability, reliability, and security.
• Contribute to cloud security policies and standards development and implementation.
• Identify gaps and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Location: Must be able to work hybrid with regular presence in UK offices (Edinburgh, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester).
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP and/or Azure; AWS desirable.
• Kubernetes administration and security experience.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Terraform, Git, Jenkins, Harness, Backstage.
• Automation and scripting skills using Python.
• Experience operating and supporting production cloud services.

Nice to have

• Experience across multiple cloud providers.
• Prior experience in regulated or large enterprise environments.
• Experience influencing or contributing to security policy.
• Understanding of cloud security standards (e.g., CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS).

Culture & Benefits

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus and share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
• Flexible hybrid working options with job share possibilities.