AWS Platform Engineer

Job summary

Williams Lea is seeking an AWS Platform Engineer to architect, implement, and maintain scalable solutions on AWS while driving automation across applications and services.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with core AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFormation
• Experience with container services (ECS, EKS) and serverless technologies (Lambda, API Gateway)
• Proficiency with AWS networking concepts and security best practices
• Experience with AWS monitoring and logging services (CloudWatch, X-Ray)
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience with CI/CD tools, preferably Bitbucket Pipelines and AWS native services
• Knowledge of containerization with Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools
• Strong understanding of CI/CD best practices and GitOps workflows
• Experience with automated testing and deployment strategies
• Knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and incident response procedures
• Understanding of security scanning and compliance automation

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage AWS infrastructure using code first tooling such as Terraform, AWS CDK and Cloud Formation
• Design, deploy, and manage AWS infrastructure using services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, and CloudFront
• Optimize AWS resource utilization and costs through rightsizing, reserved instances, and automated scaling
• Manage multi-account AWS environments using AWS Organizations, Identity Centre and Control Tower
• Implement disaster recovery and backup strategies using AWS services
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipelines and AWS CodePipeline
• Implement automated testing and security scanning within deployment pipelines
• Manage deployment strategies including blue-green deployments using AWS services
• Automate application deployments to ECS, EKS, Lambda, and EC2 environments
• Implement serverless architectures using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, and Step Functions
• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS
• Manage container registries using Amazon ECR
• Optimize container and serverless application performance and costs
• Implement service mesh architectures using AWS App Mesh when applicable
• Implement comprehensive monitoring using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and AWS Systems Manager
• Set up alerting and dashboards for proactive incident management
• Configure log aggregation and analysis using CloudWatch Logs and AWS OpenSearch
• Implement distributed tracing for microservices architectures
• Create and maintain operational runbooks and documentation
• Implement AWS security best practices using IAM, Security Groups, NACLs, and AWS Config

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