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

Contract Role: Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Cloud Engineer - GCP & Azure Contract Location: Glasgow Contract Duration: 6-12 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.