Software Engineer III
RELXSouthampton, England, United Kingdom
Added 30 Jul · still live
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£54,700
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
Our predicted code SOC 2134 (74% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,700, and RELX is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the published rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
About the role
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. You can learn more about Cirium at the link below. https://www.cirium.com
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
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. You can learn more about Cirium at the link below. https://www.cirium.com
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
- 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
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Where this offer sits in the market
SOC 2134 · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · ~343k in sampleP25 £42kP75 £76k
£33kmedian £57kgoing rate £55k£103k
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2134 going rate of £54,700. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.