Infrastructure & Cloud Operations Engineer

Position: Infrastructure & Cloud Operations Engineer
At CV-Library, we have a simple vision: to help the world to work and we are looking for exceptional and talented people to help us realise this vision in both UK and overseas markets.
We are in a period of focused internal investment, following a year of key strategic acquisitions and significant investment across all parts of the business from Tech and Data to People and HR, there's never been a more exciting time to join us or a better place to grow your career!

The Role

Hours:

Monday-Friday, 9:00-17:30

Location:

Fleet
Working Pattern:
Hybrid - 1-2 days a week on site
CV-Library is currently shifting to event drive microservices & modern cloud delivery methods as part of major transformation plan, whilst building a solid service aware operations team.
We are looking for hands-on Infrastructure & Cloud Operations engineer with over five years' experience building and operating secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure across AWS & hybrid environments. The role bridges development and operations and largely focuses on operating and managing cloud infrastructure as part of our critical web site operations.
This is a technical role focused on reliability, automation, performance optimisation, and operational excellence. You will work closely with development & operations teams to maintain high availability systems, improve deployment processes, and champion best practices across infrastructure and cloud platforms.
We have a small footprint of on-premises infrastructure which supports our network security & Wi-Fi connectivity so some knowledge of this is desirable.
What your day-to-day will look like:
 
* Manage and optimise AWS infrastructure including EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, S3, VPC, IAM, Route
53 and Cloud Watch
 
* Manage containerised workloads using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
 
* Drive and improve observability and monitoring (e.g. Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, Coralogix)
 
* Improve reliability, resilience and performance of production systems
 
* Embed security, compliance and cost optimisation into platforms and services
 
* Collaborate closely with engineering teams to improve deployment velocity and operational maturity
 
* To actively be part of the ‘Out of Hours' Support Rota
What we're looking for (essential):
 
* In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux.
 
* Strong scripting skills ideally e.g. Bash, Power Shell.
 
* Strong experience in AWS cloud-native infrastructure and automation
 
* Good understanding of hybrid cloud environments with experience in VPC and virtualisation solutions.
 
* Good understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, TLS).
 
* Strong experience with Cisco, Ubiquiti, Meraki.
 
* Good understanding of Monitoring and Logging including best practise.
 
* Strong communication skills and experience working in structured incident management processes.
 
* Strong work ethic and ability to work in dynamic work environment.
 
* Experience managing & troubleshooting databases e.g. Aurora, MySQL.
What we're looking for (desirable):
 
* Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation
 
* Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI)
 
* Experience with large-scale search clusters (Solr / Elasticsearch).
 
* Experience with API gateway products.
 
* Familiarity with firewalls and LAN and Wi-Fi networking.
 
* Good understanding of o365 and other Microsoft Services.
 
* Understanding of messaging platforms including Rabbit

MQ, AWS SQS and Kafka