Senior Systems Engineer, Production

TL;DR

Senior Systems Engineer, Production: Building and operating the systems that power cloud-based products and services with an accent on automation, observability, and reliability. Focus on AWS infrastructure, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines to improve performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.

Location: Remote (United Kingdom), with a preference for candidates located in or near London for occasional in-person collaboration.

Salary: £87,600 to £118,400 GBP

Company

hirify.global is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain the AWS infrastructure supporting hirify.global’s production environments.
• Implement and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ensuring reproducibility and compliance.
• Collaborate with developers to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and overall developer experience.
• Enhance observability and reliability, refining alerting, monitoring, and incident response.
• Lead cloud optimization projects, improving performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.
• Partner with Security, DevOps, and Product Engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant systems.

Requirements

• Deep experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS infrastructure at scale.
• Strong expertise with Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• Solid understanding of AWS services such as ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Coding skills in Bash, Python, Ruby, or Go.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) in production environments.
• Expertise in AWS cost management, scaling, and multi-account strategies
• Prior experience in platform engineering or developer productivity teams.
• Demonstrate a keen interest in improving your craft by using AI

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays.
• Private Healthcare with Life Insurance & Critical Illness cover.
• Pension contribution.
• Professional development and growth options.
• Recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.