At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure for data platforms.
- 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 culture focused on innovation and continuous improvement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on critical data solutions in a dynamic tech environment.
- Qualifications: Strong AWS knowledge and experience with Databricks and Snowflake.
Are you passionate about building reliable, secure cloud platforms that power critical data solutions? Do you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges while improving performance, resilience, and cost efficiency?
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
This role focuses on designing, building, and operating secure, scalable cloud infrastructure to support data platforms across AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake. You will work closely with engineering and security teams to enable reliable, observable, and cost‑efficient systems. The position plays a key role in improving platform performance, resilience, and operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code with consistent, auditable environments
- Operate and enhance observability using Grafana, including dashboards, alerts, and noise reduction
- Implement and validate backup and disaster recovery processes, ensuring readiness and alignment to RPO/RTO
- Troubleshoot incidents across infrastructure and data platforms, leading root cause analysis and mitigation
- Optimize performance and cost through usage analysis, rightsizing, and architectural improvements
- Collaborate with security teams to enforce encryption, access controls, and compliance standards
- Maintain clear operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge sharing
- Support platform reliability and continuous improvement across AWS, Databricks, and Snowflake ecosystems
Requirements
- Strong AWS fundamentals including networking (VPC, subnets, routing), compute (EC2, EKS/ECS, Lambda), and storage (S3 architecture, lifecycle, replication)
- Expertise in identity and security including IAM (least privilege, cross‑account), KMS, secrets management, encryption, and logging practices
- Experience supporting Databricks (clusters, networking, IAM, performance tuning) and Snowflake (connectivity, authentication, data movement)
- Knowledge of backup and disaster recovery tools such as Clumio, with experience in retention policies and restore validation
- Experience with observability tools including Grafana, alerting, and handling logs, metrics, and traces
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation, including CI/CD pipelines and environment promotion
- Reliability engineering experience including scaling, fault tolerance, SLOs, capacity planning, and distributed system troubleshooting
- Awareness of cost and security practices including FinOps optimization, secure‑by‑design principles, and compliance tooling
Senior DevOps Engineer in Southampton employer: Cirium
Cirium is an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, making it an ideal place for a Senior DevOps Engineer to thrive. With a strong focus on employee growth, Cirium offers opportunities for continuous learning and development in cutting-edge cloud technologies while contributing to the transformation of the aviation industry. Located in a vibrant tech hub, employees benefit from a dynamic work environment that encourages creativity and teamwork, alongside competitive benefits that support work-life balance.
