Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure)

MHR International; Ruddington; Híbrido; GBP 80.000 - 115.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Access to over 60 internal training

GP 24/7 health support

Extra holiday days

Family leave

MHRewards discounts

Recognition program

£2,000 referral bonus

On-site restaurants

Private medical insurance

Dental coverage

Descripción de la vacante

MHR International UK Limited is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure) to help build reliable, scalable cloud services for the People First platform.

You’ll join the Cloud Operations team, working with Software Engineering and Platform teams to ensure reliability, resilience and operability across Azure-hosted microservices.

The role emphasizes IaC with Terraform/Bicep, automation, monitoring, CI/CD, and incident response with on-call duties; strong Azure SaaS experience is essential.

Formación

• SRE/DevOps or cloud engineering experience.
• Hands-on Azure production SaaS experience.
• IaC experience with Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Experience with observability and incident response.

Responsabilidades

• Build and manage Azure environments using Terraform and Bicep.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and operational processes to reduce toil.
• Improve monitoring, alerting and observability, supporting SLIs/SLOs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve resilience and scalability.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis, turning lessons into engineering improvements.
• Contribute to CI/CD, deployment automation and continuous improvement.

Conocimientos

Azure

Terraform

Bicep

Automation

Observability

SRE practices

CI/CD

PowerShell

Incident management

Herramientas

Azure Monitor

DataDog

Grafana

NewRelic

Descripción del empleo

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it's for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers.

MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allow you to focus on what’s most important to you- work that matters.

With us, you’ll grow, find your flow , and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.

We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure) to help build reliable, scalable and highly automated cloud services for MHR’s People First platform.

You’ll work with Azure, Terraform, Bicep, automation and observability, applying SRE principles to improve how our cloud platform performs and operates.

Your Team

You’ll join our Cloud Operations team, supporting People First, MHR’s microservices-based HR and payroll SaaS platform running in Microsoft Azure.

Working closely with Software Engineering and Platform teams, you’ll help ensure reliability, resilience and operability are built into our services from the start.

Your Impact

You’ll use SRE and DevOps practices to automate cloud operations, reduce manual effort and improve platform reliability.

You will:

Build and manage Azure environments using Terraform and Bicep.

Automate provisioning, configuration and operational processes to reduce toil.

Improve monitoring, alerting and observability, supporting SLIs/SLOs and reducing MTTR.

Work with engineering teams to improve resilience, scalability and operational readiness.

Support incident response and root cause analysis, turning lessons into engineering improvements.

Contribute to CI/CD, deployment automation and continuous improvement.

Participate in the team’s on-call rota.

What you'll bring to the role and MHR

Experience in an SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering or automation-focused role.

Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and production SaaS environments.

Practical Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform, ideally alongside Bicep.

Automation/scripting experience using PowerShell or similar technologies.

Experience with any observability tools like Azure Monitor, DataDog, Grafana or NewRelic

Understanding of CI/CD, deployment strategies and configuration management.

Experience supporting backend or microservices applications, with the ability to read and understand application code when troubleshooting.

Knowledge of SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs, incident management, MTTR and reducing operational toil.

Benefits to support you personally and professionally

Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
• Enhanced Family leave
• My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
• Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
• On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
• Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage

We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment.

At MHR, we’re completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported.

Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you’re excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we’ll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.

If we receive an exceptionally high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than originally advertised.