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Our Company

Were Hitachi Digital Services a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our worlds potential. Were people-centric and here to power good. Every day we future-proof urban spaces conserve natural resources protect rainforests and save lives. This is a world where innovation technology and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from whats now to whats next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We dont expect you to fit every requirement your life experience character perspective and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.

Job description

Mandatory Skills:

Plat Engineering for on-premises &cloud IaC CI/CD pipeline & tools security network landing zones observability self-servicing DB automation

Role Description Skills:

ROLE PURPOSE
Lead the design build and operational excellence of the organisations cloud platform across private and public cloud environments. Own the end-to-end IaC-based provisioning configuration management patch orchestration and cloud governance framework. Drive the transformation from manual infrastructure operations to a fully automated self-service policy-governed cloud platform that delivers speed security cost efficiency and reliability.
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
Bachelors 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)

About us

Were a global team of innovators. Together we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today this is the place for you.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued heard and safe to express themselves they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits support and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. Were also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). Were always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best which leads to unexpected ideas. So here youll experience a sense of belonging and discover autonomy freedom and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

Were proud to say were an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention 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 recruitment process please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.