Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Informa Group .

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team at Informa. This role is pivotal in designing, automating, and operating cloud infrastructure that powers our digital platforms, including high-performance compute environments, data pipelines, and enterprise applications. You will champion Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) adoption, ensure secure and scalable deployment practices, and maintain reliable cloud environments primarily on AWS. Working collaboratively with engineering teams, data teams, and product stakeholders, you will enable production-ready services that scale efficiently and meet enterprise-grade requirements. This is hands-on role that blends DevOps expertise with modern cloud engineering practices to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, CloudOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Proven experience operating production workloads on AWS is a strong advantage
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Opentofu/Terraform and Cold deploy) and modern CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with databases, search systems, or high-performance compute environments is highly desirable
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex performance, latency, networking, and system reliability issues
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability systems (CloudWatch, New Relic, Opentelemetry)
• Experience working with software delivery teams and understanding of DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, and Infrastructure-as-Code principles
• The candidate will be an individual contributor.
• Strong proficiency in Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and security best practices

Nice To Haves

• Automation-First Mindset: You prioritize automation, reliability, and repeatable workflows to reduce manual toil and improve deployment frequency
• Fast Learner: You adapt quickly to evolving platforms, tools, and emerging technologies
• Strong Communicator: You excel at explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering collaboration across teams
• Ownership & Problem-Solving: You take ownership of challenges, demonstrate excellent debugging skills, and confidently make decisions with limited information
• Customer-Focused: You genuinely enjoy creating robust, scalable, and relevant solutions that transform businesses and drive positive outcomes
• Adaptable & Resilient: You embrace change, thrive in uncertain environments, and adjust innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud environments for digital platforms, including compute resources, data stores, pipelines, and real-time services
• Architect and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS to support digital publishing and content platforms
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for deploying infrastructure, applications, and data workflows using tools like GitHub Actions, Code Deploy or similar.
• Implement and maintain IaC using Opentofu, Terragrunt, and Gruntwork modules for consistent, repeatable provisioning across environments
• Optimise cloud costs and ensure high availability and disaster recovery for critical systems
• Manage core infrastructure layers: networking, identity, storage, DNS, certificates, and security controls.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, secret management, runtime configuration, and environment lifecycle.
• Partner with engineering teams to onboard new models, data sources, and services into production
• Troubleshoot performance, networking, and system reliability issues to ensure production SLOs are consistently met
• Automate testing, deployment, and monitoring processes to ensure rapid and reliable delivery of updates.

Benefits

• A competitive salary + bonus
• 24 days annual leave
• 4 volunteering days annually
• Day off for your birthday
• Pension contributions
• Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self
• Seasonal social and charitable events
• Training and development
• Tools and equipment for remote working

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed