Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Visa; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa, including Currency Cloud, is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based infrastructure. You will drive automation using Terraform, manage containerised workloads in Kubernetes (EKS), and own CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD and Jenkins.

You will contribute to monitoring, security, and reliability initiatives, collaborating with developers and platform teams to ensure compliant, scalable systems powering global payments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, IT, or related field.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of core AWS services (EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, S3, etc.).
• Proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Helm).
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tooling (ArgoCD, Jenkins).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain AWS services at scale.
• Develop and maintain IaC using Terraform with reusable modules.
• Manage containerised workloads on Kubernetes (EKS) and use Helm for deployments.
• Design and optimise CI/CD pipelines (ArgoCD, Jenkins, Terraform Cloud).
• Enhance monitoring and reliability using CloudWatch and Datadog.
• Implement cloud security best practices and IAM, encryption, and secrets governance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and produce technical docs.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

DevOps practices

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science/Information Technology or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

ArgoCD

CloudWatch

Datadog

Istio

Job description

Visa, including Currency Cloud, is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable AWS-based infrastructure. You will drive automation using Terraform, manage containerised workloads in Kubernetes (EKS), and own CI/CD pipelines with ArgoCD and Jenkins.

You will contribute to monitoring, security, and reliability initiatives, collaborating with developers and platform teams to ensure compliant, scalable systems powering global payments.