At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build secure cloud infrastructure for data platforms at scale.
- Company: Join Cirium, the leader in aviation analytics transforming the industry.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on innovation and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on cloud technology while keeping critical data safe and accessible.
- Qualifications: Experience with AWS, Infrastructure as Code, and observability tools required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Do you enjoy building reliable, secure cloud platforms that keep critical data protected and always available? Are you motivated by improving observability, resilience, and cost efficiency across complex distributed systems?
About the Business:
At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation.
About the Role:
You will design, build, and operate secure, reliable cloud infrastructure supporting data platforms at scale. This role focuses on improving backup and recovery, observability, and automation across AWS environments while enabling engineering teams through robust tooling and clear operational practices. You will work across infrastructure, security, and platform teams to ensure systems are resilient, efficient, and audit‑ready.
Responsibilities:
- Build and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, ensuring consistent environments across development, test, and production, with clear change traceability and audit readiness.
- Operate and enhance observability through Grafana dashboards and alerting, improving signal quality and reducing noise.
- Implement and manage backup and recovery policies using Clumio, including restore validation and disaster recovery readiness.
- Troubleshoot platform and infrastructure incidents, leading root cause analysis and implementing preventative improvements.
- Optimize cost and performance by analyzing usage patterns, rightsizing resources, and improving architectural efficiency.
- Partner with security teams to implement controls for encryption, access management, logging, and compliance.
- Maintain operational documentation and enable engineering teams to effectively use platform capabilities.
Requirements:
- Experience with AWS environments, including permissions, account onboarding, encryption/key strategies, and audit‑ready reporting.
- Strong understanding of disaster recovery principles, including RPO/RTO alignment and recovery testing.
- Hands‑on experience with observability tools such as Grafana, including dashboards, alerting, and SLO/SLA reporting.
- Knowledge of metrics, logs, and traces, and ability to correlate signals across distributed systems.
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure, including testing, validation, and safe deployment practices.
- Scripting and automation skills using Python and/or Bash for tooling and operational tasks.
- Strong understanding of reliability, security, and cost optimization practices in cloud‑based platforms.
Cloud Engineer in Southampton employer: Cirium
Cirium is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, making it an ideal place for Cloud Engineers to thrive. With a commitment to employee growth, Cirium offers opportunities for professional development and encourages team members to enhance their skills in a supportive environment. Located at the heart of the aviation analytics industry, employees benefit from working on cutting-edge technology while contributing to meaningful projects that keep the world connected.
