Cloud & Data Engineering
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business.
Mandate
Design, build, and enforce operational excellence of the organisation's cloud platform across private and public cloud environments.
Mandatory Skills
- Platform Engineering for on premises & cloud, IaC, CI/CD pipeline & tools, security, network, landing zones, observability, self servicing, DB automation
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and implement IaC based cloud provisioning using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi across multi cloud and private cloud environments
- Design and automate end to end infrastructure lifecycle management: provisioning, patching, updates, scaling, and decommissioning
- Build and maintain cloud governance guardrails using policy as code (OPA, Sentinel, Azure Policy) to enforce security, cost, and compliance standards
- Implement FinOps practices including automated rightsizing, reserved instance management, waste detection, and cost allocation tagging
- Lead CI/CD pipeline engineering for infrastructure deployments, integrating automated testing, security scanning, and approval gates
- Design self service infrastructure portals enabling development teams to provision compliant environments without manual intervention
- Mentor and coach 2 Cloud Platform Engineers, establish coding standards, conduct architecture reviews, and drive knowledge sharing
- Collaborate with SRE and Security teams to embed reliability, observability, and compliance into the platform from the ground up
- Produce architectural decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and platform documentation for operational excellence
Technical Skills & Expertise
- Expert level IaC proficiency: Terraform (strongly preferred), CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Bicep
- Deep experience with at least two major cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP, or VMware private cloud
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), container orchestration, and platform services
- Configuration management expertise: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or SaltStack
- CI/CD tooling: Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps for infrastructure pipelines
- Policy as code frameworks: OPA/Rego, HashiCorp Sentinel, Azure Policy, AWS Config Rules
- Monitoring and observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, or Dynatrace
- Networking fundamentals: VPC/VNet design, load balancers, DNS, CDN, and hybrid connectivity
Soft skills & Competencies
- Strong leadership and mentoring ability - coaches and develops junior engineers
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across all levels
- Strategic thinker who balances technical depth with business outcomes
- Proven ability to drive change, influence without authority, and build consensus
- Strong analytical and problem solving mindset with attention to detail
- Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple workstreams simultaneously
Qualifications & Experience
- 7+ years in cloud/infrastructure engineering with 3+ years in a senior or lead capacity
- Proven track record of delivering large scale IaC transformation and cloud migration programmes
- Relevant certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, CKA/CKAD, or Terraform Associate/Professional
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Desirable / Nice to Have
- Experience with FinOps frameworks and cloud cost optimisation at scale
- Background in platform engineering product management and internal developer platforms
- Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux) and service mesh (Istio, Linkerd)
Equal Opportunity Employment
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support your success.