At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead Azure architecture and drive SRE practices for resilient cloud platforms.
- Company: Metro Bank, a trusted and collaborative banking environment.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, generous holiday, healthcare, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Hybrid working model with excellent internal progression opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on cloud foundations while working in a supportive team.
- Qualifications: Deep Azure experience and strong SRE mindset required.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Senior Engineer – Platform Engineering (Azure Architect and SRE)
Team IT
Location AMAZE Central - Holborn, Greater London
Ref # POS_17932
Closing Date 06-Jul-2026
At Metro Bank, we value people who genuinely care and believe the best banking experience starts with trusted, collaborative teams. Most of our roles offer hybrid working built around your responsibilities and home life.
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.
What You Will Do
- 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.
What You Will Need
- Deep Azure architecture experience including landing zones and cloud governance.
- Strong SRE mindset with proven hands‑on reliability engineering.
- 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.
- Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all stakeholders.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus and a wide range of benefits including generous holiday allowance, an attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance and colleague discounts.
- Training and development opportunities to succeed in your role.
- Internal career progression opportunities with a strong emphasis on promoting from within.
We think you need these skills to ace Senior Engineer
Azure Architecture
SRE Principles
Cloud Governance
Automation with IaC
Cloud Security Controls
Kubernetes
Container Platforms
