Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Engineer – GCP & Azure

I.T. & Communications
Glasgow
August 2, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

Contract Location:

Glasgow. Hybrid

Contract Duration:

6 months initially (with potential extension)

Contract Start Date:

Immediate

Contract Classification:

Inside IR35

Must have GCP and Microsoft Azure Cloud experience Overview

We are supporting a leading global financial services organisation on a major cloud transformation programme and are seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Cloud Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team.

The successful candidate will play a key role in enhancing cloud reliability, scalability, automation and operational excellence across enterprise cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.
  • Drive SRE best practices including observability, resilience, reliability engineering and automation.
  • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform.
  • Build and enhance automation tooling using Python.
  • Support cloud platform engineering activities across Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Manage and optimise containerised workloads and Kubernetes environments.
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and application issues across multiple operating systems.
  • Collaborate with development, platform and security teams to improve platform stability and performance.
  • Support CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native operational processes.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure.
  • Proven experience in a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Engineering or DevOps role.
  • Strong scripting and automation skills using Python.
  • Extensive experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Experience working across multiple operating systems (Linux and Windows environments).
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes and containerisation technologies.
  • Experience implementing monitoring, observability and reliability best practices.
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience within large-scale enterprise or financial services environments.
  • Exposure to CI/CD tooling and cloud-native engineering practices.
  • Knowledge of cloud security and governance controls.

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