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, Route53 and CloudWatch  

• 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, PowerShell.  

• 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 CloudFormation 

• Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab 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 RabbitMQ, AWS SQS and Kafka.