Engineer – Platform Engineering (Azure Architect and SRE)

Company: Metro Bank
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Location: London
Job Description:

As a Senior Engineer – Platform Engineering (Azure Architect and SRE) you will bring strong Azure design and SRE principles to evolve our cloud foundations. This role ensures our platforms are secure, observable, compliant and built for resilience and repeatability.

Responsibilities

  • Own Azure architecture patterns for networking, identity, resiliency and platform services.
  • Drive SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and automated reliability tooling.
  • Lead observability, monitoring, logging and incident response engineering.
  • Improve platform scalability, disaster recovery, backup strategy and environmental parity.
  • Provide architectural direction to squads and mentor engineers across cloud disciplines.
  • Influence platform standards and guide engineering teams.
  • Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you and stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • Deep Azure architecture experience, including landing zones and cloud governance.
  • Strong SRE mindset with proven hands‑on reliability engineering experience.
  • Strong automation experience with IaC and cloud security controls.
  • Expertise across Kubernetes, container platforms, networking and identity fundamentals.
  • Ability to influence platform standards and guide engineering teams.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and discretionary annual bonus.
  • Generous holiday allowance.
  • Attractive pension scheme.
  • Health care and life assurance.
  • Colleague discounts.

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Posted: July 9th, 2026