Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Informa is a leading academic publishing, business intelligence, knowledge and events business, creating unique content and connectivity for customers all over the world. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a member of the FTSE 100.

Taylor & Francis is one of the world’s largest publishers of high-quality, peer reviewed scholarly journals, books, e-books and reference works. We empower learners, thinkers and doers with trusted knowledge that advances research and enriches lives. We bring together diverse people, ideas and opinions to validate and publish the experts, theories and truths that matter. And we’ve been doing this in an unbroken arc since 1798.

Our purpose is to foster human progress through knowledge. We strongly believe that this requires us to encourage and examine different ideas and voices, so that any work that meets our exacting levels of quality deserves to be included in our publications. This requires open minds, the opportunity for robust debate, and the courage to defend perspectives that stand up to scrutiny, even if they conflict with our personal beliefs or values. Because that’s the only way to find the best obtainable version of the truth and, ultimately, foster human progress. If you agree, then we’d love to hear from you.

About the Role: 

We are seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team at Informa. This role is pivotal in designing, automating, and operating cloud infrastructure that powers our digital platforms, including high-performance compute environments, data pipelines, and enterprise applications.

You will champion Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) adoption, ensure secure and scalable deployment practices, and maintain reliable cloud environments primarily on AWS. Working collaboratively with engineering teams, data teams, and product stakeholders, you will enable production-ready services that scale efficiently and meet enterprise-grade requirements.

This is hands-on role that blends DevOps expertise with modern cloud engineering practices to drive innovation and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud environments for digital platforms, including compute resources, data stores, pipelines, and real-time services
• Architect and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS to support digital publishing and content platforms
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for deploying infrastructure, applications, and data workflows using tools like GitHub Actions, Code Deploy or similar.
• Implement and maintain IaC using Opentofu, Terragrunt, and Gruntwork modules for consistent, repeatable provisioning across environments
• Optimise cloud costs and ensure high availability and disaster recovery for critical systems
• Manage core infrastructure layers: networking, identity, storage, DNS, certificates, and security controls.
• Automate provisioning, scaling, secret management, runtime configuration, and environment lifecycle.
• Partner with engineering teams to onboard new models, data sources, and services into production
• Troubleshoot performance, networking, and system reliability issues to ensure production SLOs are consistently met
• Automate testing, deployment, and monitoring processes to ensure rapid and reliable delivery of updates.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, CloudOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Proven experience operating production workloads on AWS is a strong advantage
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Opentofu/Terraform and Cold deploy) and modern CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with databases, search systems, or high-performance compute environments is highly desirable
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex performance, latency, networking, and system reliability issues
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability systems (CloudWatch, New Relic, Opentelemetry)
• Experience working with software delivery teams and understanding of DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, and Infrastructure-as-Code principles
• The candidate will be an individual contributor.
• Strong proficiency in Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and security best practices

What Makes You Successful

• Automation-First Mindset: You prioritize automation, reliability, and repeatable workflows to reduce manual toil and improve deployment frequency
• Fast Learner: You adapt quickly to evolving platforms, tools, and emerging technologies
• Strong Communicator: You excel at explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, fostering collaboration across teams
• Ownership & Problem-Solving: You take ownership of challenges, demonstrate excellent debugging skills, and confidently make decisions with limited information
• Customer-Focused: You genuinely enjoy creating robust, scalable, and relevant solutions that transform businesses and drive positive outcomes
• Adaptable & Resilient: You embrace change, thrive in uncertain environments, and adjust innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies:

Core Tech Stack Requirement 

AWS (Primary)

• Compute & Orchestration: ECS, EKS, EC2, Lambda
• Storage & Databases: S3, RDS/Aurora, OpenSearch
• Networking & Security: VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, CloudFront, WAF, IAM, Secrets Manager
• Monitoring: New Relic, CloudWatch, Opentelemetry
• IaC & Automation: Opentofu, Terragrunt, CDK

• Databases & Search Systems: OpenSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
• Data Engineering: AWS Glue, AWS DataZone
• Secure Data Pipelines: ETL, batching, streaming, data lineage

General Tooling & Platforms

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions,  Code Pipeline
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
• CDN & Edge: Cloudflare, CloudFront, A
• Scripting & Automation: Shell, Python, REST APIs
• Linux Administration: Networking, SSL/TLS, DNS management

You must have the right to work and live in India.

Location: The successful candidate will be able to utilise our balanced working model. We ask that candidates live within a commutable distance of our Bengaluru office to ensure that as a balanced worker they can make it to our office location to collaborate as required. There is an expectation for a minimum of 5 days per week in-person time.

We believe that great things happen when people connect face-to-face. That's why we work in-person with each other, or with customers and partners, three days a week or more. When you’re not spending time together in one of our offices or other workplaces – like at conference – you get the flexibility and support to work from home or remotely.

What we offer in return: 

• A competitive salary + bonus
• 24 days annual leave
• 4 volunteering days annually
• Day off for your birthday
• Pension contributions
• Medical insurance for self and dependants; life cover and personal accident cover for self
• Seasonal social and charitable events
• Training and development
• Tools and equipment for remote working

We want all our candidates to shine in our recruitment process. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure you are able to show us your best self. This could include having the application form in a different format, more time for questions, or anything else – please ask us, we are happy to be flexible! Please contact [email protected]  

Being Yourself at Taylor & Francis: 

If you’re excited about working with Taylor & Francis to foster human progress through knowledge, we invite you to apply even if your existing skills and experience don’t fit every item listed above. At Taylor & Francis, we are at our best and most successful when colleagues can be themselves and make a contribution regardless of their identity or background. As a colleague, you will have the opportunity to further innovate and develop in areas that you are passionate about. Our goal is to empower you with the resources, incentives, and flexibility you need to enjoy success at work and to live a healthy, balanced life. 

Taylor & Francis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in and value diversity of people and thought, fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where all colleagues can learn and succeed as their true selves. Taylor & Francis recruits, develops, and retains colleagues without regard to any protected personal characteristics or other non-merit based factor. 

If you have a disability, or face another barrier, and would like to request an adjustment to assist your participation in the hiring process and/or in the advertised position, please contact [email protected]. Your request will be reviewed and considered in the strictest confidence.

We genuinely care about our colleagues, promoting work-life balance, wellbeing, and flexible working. We believe that the skills and experience you bring to Taylor & Francis are invaluable. We want you to have the opportunity to develop your abilities, and to innovate and develop in areas which you are passionate about. To find out more about our business and the great career opportunities please go to our Careers Site: http://www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com/careers 

Or better yet check out our LinkedIn ‘Life’ Page, highlighting our accomplishments, employees, and company culture. It’s also a good way of meeting our recruitment team, who will be happy to advise you on your journey here at T&F.