Specialist Iot Infrastructure Eng. Lead

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At Vodafone, we're not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we're shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you're part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.
Joining Vodafone IoT's team means being part of a growing, purpose-driven organisation at the forefront of innovation. Our teams are made up of curious minds, problem-solvers, and forward-thinkers across the world who thrive in a collaborative, high-performing, inclusive environment.
What you'll do
Vodafone has also carved out the IoT Connectivity business to secure additional external investment and maintain our leading position in the industry through the following.
Continue accelerating and enhancing our Platform as a Service for Vodafone customers on footprint. Launch service proposition in markets that are off Vodafone's current footprint (US andFrance). Address long tail lower volume segment through digital self-service platform globally.
We are looking for an IoT Infrastructure Engineer to join the IoT Platform Engineering organisation. The successful candidate will join the Cloud Engineering and Infrastructure Enablement team, which is accountable to enable the foundations of the IoT Global Connectivity platform, guaranteeing strategic evolution, operational excellence, and cost optimisation of infrastructure and database services, enabling the Hyperconnect modernisation programme and supporting Vodafone's ambition for global IoT leadership
Engineering drive & operational excellence,overseeing the full lifecycle of infrastructure and database assets, ensuring reliability,scalability and security.
Provide experts knowledge on cloud infrastructure and platforms, to ensure our organisation achieves its goals for cloud adoption
Design, build, deliver, maintain, and improve infrastructure solutions which includes automation strategies such as Infrastructure-as-code, Configuration-ascode, Policy-as-code, release orchestration and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, and collaborative ways of working (e.g., DevOps).
Own and optimise cloud and on-premises infrastructure, improving inventory and proactive cost management.
Work closely with the rest of the IoT Platform Engineering team, Product teams, Network engineering and Security teams to ensure seamless alignment and delivery.
Manage supplier and partner relationships, ensuring getting the right support to achieve our business goals.
Who you are
Master's or bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems,a related field, or equivalent experience.
Five or more years of experience in IT infrastructure and database management, both on-premises and in the cloud.
Technical certifications in Cloud and/or database technologies.
Strong knowledge of cloud networking,including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, NACLs, VPNs, peering, transit gateways, and egress cost optimization.
Experience implementing cloud security controls, encryption, and key management services.
Proven ability to design for resilience, including multi-AZ and multi-region architectures, backup and recovery.
Comfortable supporting incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.
Excellent written, verbal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Experience working on geographically distributed teams and interacting and managing stakeholders in multiple markets and verticals.
Ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution.
Proven use of CI/CD and DevOps tooling (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub/GitLab).
Comfortable scripting and automating workflows using Python and shell scripting.
Experience with container platforms including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
Strong hands-on experience with AWS,designing and operating production loud environments.
Deep understanding of IaaS, PaaS, scalable architectures, APIs, and microservices.
Familiar with cloud provider frameworks (e.g. Well-Architected) and architecture artifacts.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation using Terraform, Packer.
Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don't meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunit