AWS Cloud Engineer

Job summary

Instil is seeking an AWS Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud-native solutions on AWS, collaborating closely with software engineers on both frontend and backend services.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS in production environments
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native applications and infrastructure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK)
• Strong understanding of AWS services including IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS and S3
• Experience supporting modern web applications built with React and TypeScript
• Experience working with backend services developed in Python
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring and logging practices
• Experience troubleshooting issues across both cloud infrastructure and application layers
• Knowledge of cloud security principles and best practices
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud-native infrastructure on AWS
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation or AWS CDK
• Build and support scalable, secure and resilient application platforms
• Work closely with engineers developing applications in React, TypeScript and Python
• Support the deployment and operation of frontend and backend services
• Design and manage containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and automated delivery workflows
• Implement monitoring, logging, tracing and observability best practices
• Optimise cloud environments for performance, reliability and cost efficiency
• Support incident response, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Apply cloud security best practices and governance controls
• Contribute to platform automation and developer self-service capabilities
• Help define cloud architecture standards and operational best practices

Skills

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