Head of Software & Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Hybrid across Harwell, UK; Athens, Greece; Barcelona, Spain; Mallorca, Spain; Porto, Portugal; or Tenerife, Spain. Applicants must have the legal right to work in their chosen location.

Company

hirify.global provides satellite mission services, Earth observation, IoT connectivity, and secure communications using space-based data and infrastructure.

What you will do

• Define and own the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure and software platforms.
• Lead the design of CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks.
• Build scalable, secure, and resilient platforms supporting satellite networks.
• Deliver NOC tooling, telemetry, and capacity-planning platforms for network and mission operations.
• Enable system simulation and validation through virtualised environments such as digital twins.
• Support service delivery through APIs, provisioning, billing integrations, and transitions from build to live operations.

Requirements

• Technical leadership across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in AWS or GCP, containerisation, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Helm.
• Advanced experience designing CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and GitOps workflows.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, real-time data processing, and networked platforms.
• Knowledge of cloud and network security, identity and access management, scalability, resilience, monitoring, and operational reliability.
• Legal right to work in the selected location and an English-language CV are required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on space technology and satellite communications serving customers around the globe.
• Contribute to a mission-driven effort to make space more accessible.
• Join a diverse, ambitious, and supportive team.
• Work in a hybrid setup across multiple European locations.