Cloud Engineering Specialist (AWS)

TL;DR

Cloud Engineering Specialist (AWS): Building and optimizing cloud-based common data fabric (CDF) and AIOps solutions for industrializing network operations with an accent on AWS native stack components, streaming, data processing, and ML/MLOps. Focus on deploying reusable AWS modules, implementing automated CI/CD pipelines, enforcing deployment safety, and applying advanced AWS security practices.

Location: 1 Braham Street, London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a leading UK telco company, home to brands like BT, EE, Openreach, and Plusnet, committed to transforming digital infrastructure and customer experience with fibre broadband and 5G.

What you will do

• Deploy reusable AWS modules for components like MSK, Flink, EMR, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, EC2, Neptune, SageMaker, networking, and IAM using Terraform/CloudFormation.
• Implement automated CI/CD pipelines using GitLab/Jenkins for IaC, services, data pipelines, ML models, and inference deployments.
• Enforce deployment safety with safeguards including approvals, unit/integration tests, automated rollbacks, and compliance checks.
• Implement multi-AZ VPC architectures with private subnets, NAT, routing, endpoint policies, and secure on-prem connectivity (Direct Connect/VPN).
• Engineer governed multi-layer data storage using S3, DynamoDB, Aurora/RDS, and Redshift/Iceberg.
• Apply advanced AWS security practices including IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, secrets management, CloudTrail governance, Config rules, and GuardDuty/Security Hub integration.
• Build end-to-end observability across pipelines using CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, data quality, and pipeline SLIs/SLOs.
• Develop runbooks, playbooks, synthetic tests, chaos testing, failover simulations, and incident triage workflows.
• Operate AWS Neptune graph clusters for network topology representation and define standards for documentation, change management, and quality gates.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science/Engineering.
• AWS certifications (DevOps Engineer Professional, Solution Architect, or Cloud Ops/Administrator) are strongly preferred.
• Pragmatic engineering approach to automate wherever possible to reduce toil.
• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to work on industrializing network operations through data-driven AIOps and a cloud-based Common Data Fabric (CDF).
• Contribute to the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project.
• Join a company committed to radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes.
• Work in an environment applying AI and technology to reimagine customer experience.
• Flexible working arrangements, including job sharing or reduced hours, are supported.
• Commitment to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, offering reasonable adjustments for the selection process.