Junior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure) in Nottingham

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.

Your Career

We’re looking for a Junior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure) to join MHR’s Cloud Operations team.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with Azure, Infrastructure as Code, automation and observability, while learning from experienced engineers.

Your Team

You’ll help support People First, MHR’s microservices-based HR and payroll SaaS platform running in Microsoft Azure.

Working alongside Cloud, Platform and Software Engineering teams, you’ll learn how we build reliable, resilient and increasingly automated cloud services.

Your Impact

You will:

• Support and monitor cloud environments in Microsoft Azure.

• Develop your skills in Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and Bicep

• Contribute to automation that reduces manual processes and operational toil.

• Use Azure Monitor and Application Insights to investigate alerts and performance.

• Support incident investigation, disaster recovery and continuous improvement.

• Build your understanding of CI/CD, SRE and observability.

• Learn to understand application code when troubleshooting services.

What you'll bring to the role and MHR

• Some exposure to cloud, DevOps, scripting or software engineering, through work, study, an apprenticeship or personal projects.

• An interest in the Cloud, SRE/DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.

• Some understanding of scripting/programming, or enthusiasm to develop these skills.

• Strong problem-solving skills and curiosity about how systems work.

• A collaborative mindset and desire to build a career in SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering.

What you'll gain

• Mentoring from experienced Cloud and SRE engineers.

• Hands-on experience with Azure, Terraform, Bicep and automation.

• Experience supporting an enterprise SaaS platform.

• A development path into SRE, DevOps or Platform Engineering.

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.