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
Are you passionate about cloud technology and looking to launch your career in IT operations and automation? We’re looking for a curious, enthusiastic junior engineer who wants to develop deep experience in cloud monitoring, automation, environment management and real-world SaaS operations to join our growing Cloud Operations team at MHR.
Your Team
As part of the Cloud Operations team, you will play a vital role in supporting the People First SaaS platform, a modern, microservices-based HR and payroll solution built in Azure and delivered to hundreds of customers.
Your Impact
In this role you will;
- Monitor cloud-hosted environments and respond to real-time alerts
- Carry out operational tasks like environment builds, tenant DB copies, and feature enablement
- Assist with performance monitoring using Azure Monitor and App Insights
- Contribute to automation scripts and tooling to streamline manual tasks
- Learn from experienced senior engineers and be part of DR simulations and incident reviews
- Support auditing, access control, and other governance activities
Help improve and document runbooks, processes, and dashboards
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What you'll bring to the role and MHR
- An interest in cloud technologies and platform operations
- Some experience (university, personal projects or first job) in IT, cloud, or scripting
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Willingness to learn in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
A team player who’s excited about growing their skills
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What you'll gain
- Training and mentoring from experienced Cloud and SRE professionals
- Hands-on experience with enterprise-grade SaaS operations
- A clear development path into DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
- Exposure to modern tooling and automation best practices
A supportive team that values continuous improvement and collaboration
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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
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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.
