AWS Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The AWS Cloud Engineer is tasked with designing, implementing, and optimizing AWS-based infrastructure and services. This role involves building and maintaining cloud solutions, developing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation, and ensuring security compliance while participating in a 24x7 on-call support rotation.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Practical, hands-on experience administering AWS environments in a live or production setting
• Strong understanding of core AWS services
• Good understanding of Windows and Linux administration
• Knowledge of networking fundamentals
• Experience using Git for version control
• Good working knowledge of CI/CD tools and processes
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand requirements and design secure, scalable and resilient AWS solutions
• Build, deploy and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure across compute, storage, database, networking and serverless services
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues directly with customers
• Advise customers on AWS best practices, architectural improvements and optimisation opportunities
• Perform capacity planning and infrastructure optimisation activities
• Support cloud migrations and onboarding of new customer environments
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions
• Implement CI/CD processes for infrastructure deployments
• Act as an escalation point for complex incidents and service issues
• Assist in major incident resolution and root cause analysis activities
• Implement AWS security best practices and cloud governance controls
• Manage IAM roles, permissions and access policies
• Deploy and manage cloud networking solutions
• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards and operational procedures
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, security and operational efficiency

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Relocation