Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Cloud Security)

Location: Hybrid in Edinburgh, Manchester, or Leeds; at least two days per week or 40% of working time must be spent at an office site.

Salary: £72,702–£80,780 per year

Company

hirify.global is transforming financial services through data, automation, modern architectures, and AI-driven security capabilities.

What you will do

• Lead the operation, reliability, scalability, and performance improvement of cloud-hosted applications and services.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and strengthen service resilience.
• Partner with engineering, platform, and product teams to deliver and improve cloud solutions and security data platforms.
• Lead incident response, problem investigations, and root cause analysis, converting lessons learned into measurable improvements.
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities that provide actionable insight into service health and customer impact.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, reusable patterns, and communities of practice.

Requirements

• Significant experience improving the reliability, availability, and supportability of production services.
• Strong DevOps expertise, including automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and collaborative software delivery.
• Strong experience with public cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong scripting or programming skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Experience implementing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code solutions, including Terraform.
• Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, collaboration, and communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Google SecOps, Dynatrace, GitHub, Kubernetes, Jira, or Confluence.
• Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps roles supporting complex production environments.
• GCP or comparable cloud certifications.
• Experience coaching engineers and improving operational standards.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexibility in office attendance and working patterns where reasonable adjustments apply.
• Pension contribution of up to 15%.
• Annual performance-related bonus and share schemes, including free shares.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Hiring process

• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.
• Applicants meeting the minimum criteria who qualify under the Disability Confident Scheme are guaranteed an interview on a fair and proportionate basis.