Affiliate Cloud Engineer

AND Digital; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm in Leeds is looking for an Affiliate Cloud Engineer for a 6-month contract. The role requires strong AWS skills, particularly in deploying to services like ECS, S3, and Lambda. Candidates should commit to at least two days a week on-site and have prior experience in a DevOps or platform engineering role. This opportunity emphasizes mentorship and upskilling within the team.

Qualifications

• Minimum two days a week on-site in Leeds required.
• Experience deploying to AWS services like ECS, S3, Lambda, etc.
• Demonstrated ability in a DevOps or platform engineering role.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable cloud solutions for various problems.
• Maintain an IaC codebase.
• Evaluate new technology options for client projects.

Skills

Experience with AWS

IaC tools like Cloudformation

DevOps best practices

Experience with GitHub Actions

Mentoring skills

Education

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab

Chef

Job description

We are recruiting for an Affiliate Cloud Engineer for a 6 month contract to start ASAP.
On-site presence required in Leeds 2 days per week.

Who We Are:
AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We’ve been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014.

We believe our work should always make a remarkable impact for our clients. We do this through our regional offices (or ‘Clubs’) building strong relationships with our partners, so that they are always prioritised by a team within close proximity.

Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world’s digital skills gap.

As a Cloud Engineer, you will be a specialist in your team, building scalable cloud solutions to solve a variety of problems. To do this, you will need to be able to:

• Commit to minimum two days a week on site in Leeds
• Have solid experience with AWS and deploying to native AWS services like ECS, S3, Lambda, SQS and Step Functions
• Build and maintain an IaC codebase using tools such as Cloudformation and Jenkins.
• You will understand Cloud & DevOps best practices and standards, and embed these into client projects.
• Ideally hold AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional accreditation
• Experience in repo migration from GitLab to GitHub would be advantageous, as well as creating workflows in GitHub Actions
• Experience working with Chef/Cookbooks would be beneficial
• Have an ability to horizon scan and evaluate new technology options and vendor products and understand how these can be used to solve our clients problems.
• Sharing your skills and experience by being an advocate for mentoring and upskilling of client and other ANDi’s as part of day-to-day activities
• Show previous experience in a DevOps or platform engineering role

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We actively encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and individuals with disabilities. We consider all flexible working arrangements, subject to the requirements of the role. Where reasonable adjustments are needed, we will strive to make changes to accommodate them.