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AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Radius · Crewe, ENG, United Kingdom
Crewe, ENG, United KingdomHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive salary; pension; life assurance; bonus potential; employee fuel card scheme; electric vehicle scheme; employee assistance programme; wellness and healthcare assistance; cycle-to-work scheme; free office breakfast; free onsite gym access.
Location
Crewe, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
Unable to offer visa sponsorship, including longer-term visa support for applicants on student or graduate visas.
Job summary
Operate and improve large-scale AWS infrastructure supporting critical business applications, with work spanning cloud networking, automation, security, and observability. Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, support Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Docker environments, and strengthen service reliability through monitoring, incident troubleshooting, vulnerability remediation, capacity planning, and cost management.
Benefits
PensionLife assuranceBonus potentialEmployee fuel card schemeElectric vehicle schemeEmployee assistance programmeWellness and healthcare assistanceCycle-to-work schemeFree office breakfastFree onsite gym access
Qualifications
- Degree-level education with at least a 2:2 (Lower Second Class Honours).
- Hands-on AWS administration experience, including EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, and Lambda.
- Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Scripting and automation experience with Python, Bash, or similar, and strong Linux administration skills.
- Container experience, preferably with Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
- Knowledge of cloud security principles, including IAM, least-privilege access, encryption, and vulnerability management.
- Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure and availability issues, with knowledge of incident, change, and problem management.
- Desirable: experience integrating Infrastructure as Code into CI/CD pipelines.
- Desirable: knowledge of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps practices.
- Desirable: understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and practices.
- Desirable: experience in ITIL, ISO 27001, or Cyber Essentials Plus environments.
Responsibilities
- Operate, maintain, and improve AWS compute, storage, database, and serverless infrastructure.
- Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling, and platform management.
- Support cloud networking, including VPCs, routing, security groups, DNS, and load balancing.
- Support containerised environments using Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Docker.
- Develop monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities.
- Partner with development, DevOps, and cybersecurity teams to deliver resilient cloud services.
- Support cloud security, vulnerability remediation, capacity planning, and cost management.
- Troubleshoot infrastructure incidents and contribute to operational management processes.
Skills
AWSBashCloudFormationCloudWatchDockerECSEKSIAMKubernetesAWS LambdaLinuxPythonS3Terraform
Degrees
Degree with at least a 2:2 (Lower Second Class Honours)
Relocation
No