Hybrid Cloud Network Engineer – Space & Satellite

AAC Clyde Space; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

AAC Clyde Space is seeking a Cloud Network Engineer to design, deploy and evolve hybrid space–terrestrial networks supporting data and services from in-house satellites. You will work across AWS and Azure, implement Terraform-based IaC, and manage Kubernetes networking while aligning with security and reliability goals.

The role is based in London or Glasgow with hybrid working, occasional travel, and potential out-of-hours support to meet customer needs.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Hands-on cloud network engineering with major cloud providers and second provider.
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform) and GitOps workflows.
• Kubernetes networking with CNI, network policies and service mesh.
• Experience with SD-WAN and hybrid/multi-site connectivity patterns.
• Observability/monitoring for network telemetry (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch).
• Scripting for automation (Python preferred).
• CI/CD tooling experience (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and optimize cloud network infrastructure across multi-cloud environments.
• Implement virtual networking components (VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing, VPNs).
• Manage network security controls (firewalls, security groups, NACLs, WAF, ZTNA).
• Develop IaC automation for provisioning network resources (Terraform).
• Operate containerised networking for Kubernetes (CNI, policies, ingress).
• Implement SD-WAN and hybrid connectivity bridging on-prem, cloud and NTN.
• Produce high‑quality low‑level designs from high‑level designs.
• Automate deployments, reporting and network admin tasks via scripting and CI/CD.
• Monitor and improve cloud/network environments with SLO/SLA ownership.
• Collaborate with security, platform and application teams.

Skills

Cloud networking

Multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Terraform / IaC

Kubernetes networking (CNI)

Security controls (firewalls, NACLs, W

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

AAC Clyde Space is seeking a Cloud Network Engineer to design, deploy and evolve hybrid space–terrestrial networks supporting data and services from in-house satellites. You will work across AWS and Azure, implement Terraform-based IaC, and manage Kubernetes networking while aligning with security and reliability goals.

The role is based in London or Glasgow with hybrid working, occasional travel, and potential out-of-hours support to meet customer needs.