Systems Engineer, Production (AWS)

TL;DR

Systems Engineer, Production (AWS): Designing and operating scalable AWS infrastructure and automation for a legal AI platform with an accent on Infrastructure-as-Code and platform reliability. Focus on optimizing CI/CD pipelines, enhancing observability, and defining agentic patterns for cloud infrastructure.

Location: Must be based in the UK (Remote/Hybrid)

Salary: £69,700 – £94,300 GBP

Company

Global leader in legal AI technology empowering legal professionals and law firms to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain AWS infrastructure supporting production environments.
• Implement and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for reproducibility and compliance.
• Collaborate with developers to improve CI/CD pipelines and the overall developer experience.
• Enhance observability and reliability by refining alerting, monitoring, and incident response.
• Optimize cloud performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.
• Mentor team members and define agentic patterns for building and observing cloud infrastructure.

Requirements

• Experience designing and operating AWS managed services (RDS, EKS, Lambda) at scale.
• Expertise with Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• Strong coding foundation for building robust automation frameworks and tooling.
• Experience in container orchestration and cluster management.
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Buildkite or GitHub Actions.
• Must be based in the UK.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Kubernetes (EKS) on AWS.
• Experience leveraging AI to accelerate code generation and infrastructure debugging.
• Prior experience in platform engineering or developer productivity teams.
• Hands-on experience managing and scaling distributed data stores like MySQL or Aurora.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work environment.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Private Healthcare with Life Insurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Pension contribution and professional development growth options.
• hirify.globalversary recognition program for long-term tenure.