AWS Infrastructure Engineer

慨正橡扯; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking an AWS Infrastructure Engineer to enhance their Infrastructure team. The role involves managing AWS environments, ensuring security, and providing support for technology projects. Ideal candidates will have extensive AWS experience and relevant certifications, alongside a focus on continuous improvement and problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on expertise in AWS, ideally in financial services.
• Ability to challenge and present effective solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, manage & maintain AWS hosted infrastructure.
• Provide a resilient, scalable and secure platform.
• 3rd line incident and service request resolution.

Skills

AWS

Problem Management

Continuous Improvement

Education

AWS Solution Architect Associate

Tools

Docker

AWS ECS

CodeBuild

CodePipeline

Job description

Job Description

Due to growth within the team, an opportunity has arisen for an AWS Infrastructure Engineer to join the Infrastructure team. Reporting to the Infrastructure Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for helping to deliver continuous improvement in the Infrastructure function.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, management & maintenance of our AWS hosted infrastructure covering our dev, UAT and production environments.
• Provide a resilient, scalable and secure platform.
• Support technology projects & sprints.
• Deliver to the maintenance plan.
• 3rd line incident and service request resolution.
• Problem management and root cause analysis.
• Provide internal guidance and support to colleagues regarding AWS best practice.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Extensive hands-on expertise in AWS, ideally gained within the financial services sector.
• A certified AWS Solution Architect Associate (or equivalent/higher level comparable certification)
• Ability to be credible and professional.
• Able to challenge appropriately and present effective solutions.
• A self-starter who can work on own initiative.
• Attention to detail.
• A high focus on delivery and continuous improvement.

Desirable skills and experience you can also bring:

• Containerisation (Docker and AWS ECS or similar)
• Linux and Windows, with emphasis on scripting and automation.
• Automation tools, focusing on deployments through CodeBuild and CodePipeline.
• AWS-based capacity and performance logging and monitoring solutions.
• Building custom dashboards and tools to support the platform.
• Experience in architecting and building solutions to support highly available and scalable web sites, mobile apps and public APIs.
• MySQL / Aurora, MongoDB, Redis and other database / NoSQL technologies.