Public Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Engineer (Azure)

TL;DR

Public Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Engineer (Azure): Building and maintaining secure, automated landing zone capabilities that enable product teams to deliver services at pace with an accent on engineering best practices and automation. Focus on improving reliability and reducing manual effort by applying automation and observability practices.

Location: Hybrid - spend at least two days per week (or 40% of your time) in Halifax, UK.

Salary: £48,987 - £54,430

Company

hirify.global is modernising with cloud, creating a platform that’s quick, secure and resilient for customers, and easy, modern and sustainable for developers.

What you will do

• Implement and maintain Policy and Management Group structures under guidance, ensuring compliance and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Support Disaster Recovery (DR) and Backup configurations, following established patterns and contributing to resilience testing.
• Configure monitoring and alerting solutions using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to enable proactive issue detection.
• Contribute to team knowledge sharing and peer support, demonstrating collaborative behaviours and learning from senior engineers.
• Work with other Labs and Platform teams to integrate landing zone components and follow agreed design principles.
• Adopt an SRE mindset by applying automation and observability practices to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.

Requirements

• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Python, PowerShell) and willingness to learn advanced practices.
• Exposure to DevOps and CI/CD concepts (e.g., Harness, Backstage).
• Foundational knowledge of Azure Landing Zone services (e.g., storage, monitoring).

Nice to have

• Good understanding of Azure services including storage, monitoring, backup/recovery, management groups, subscriptions, networking and firewalls.
• Awareness of FinOps principles and ability to apply cost optimisation techniques under guidance.
• Security-conscious engineering approach, including basic identity and access management principles and handling of keys/secrets.
• Familiarity with governance tooling such as Azure Policy and ability to apply predefined policies.
• Experience with platform automation for asset tracking and cost management scenarios.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus.
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Flexible benefits including discounted products and services.
• Share schemes and access to wellbeing support.
• Committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and thrive.