Deloitte - Recruitment

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

Deloitte - Recruitment Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · £90K/yr

Business Consulting and Services · 10,001+ employees

Jul 29
sre Senior (5-10 yrs) Contractor Full-time United Kingdom
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About the role

The successful candidate will design, build, and maintain highly available cloud infrastructure across multi-cloud environments. They will also drive SRE best practices, including observability, resilience, and automation, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve platform stability.

What they look for

Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure Site Reliability Engineering Cloud Engineering DevOps Python Terraform Infrastructure as Code Linux Windows Kubernetes Containerisation Observability CI/CD Automation Cloud Security

Requirements

Candidates must have strong hands-on experience with GCP and Microsoft Azure, along with proficiency in Python and Terraform. Extensive experience in SRE or Cloud Engineering roles, including work with Kubernetes and containerization, is essential.

Benefits

Holiday pay

Full description

Contract Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Engineer - GCP & Azure

Contract Location: Glasgow. Hybrid

Contract Duration: 6 months initially (with potential extension)

Contract Start Date: Immediate

Contract Classification: Inside IR35

Daily Rate breakdown

Traditional Daily Rate: £450

Agreed Contract Rate (ACR): £346.95

Equivalent Annual Salary: £90,206 + £10,887 holiday pay

Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers – Rockford Pay

** Must have strong 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.

Essential Skills & Experience

  • 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.

Desirable

  • 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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