Cloud Infrastructure Administrator

Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the City of London is seeking an experienced AWS Analyst to join their infrastructure cloud team. The role involves developing utilities to enhance management tools, automating AWS resource deployment using Terraform, and monitoring system performance. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in AWS environments and strong automation skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in a DevOps or SRE role in an AWS cloud environment.
• Track record of implementing CI/CD for projects.
• Ability to automate administrative tasks.

Responsibilities

• Develop utilities to improve application management tools.
• Build and maintain Terraform and scripts for AWS resources.
• Monitor system functionality and performance.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS cloud environment experience

Python proficiency

Golang proficiency

Automation expertise

Tools

Terraform

AWS CLI

CloudFormation

Ansible

Job description

Job Description

Job Purpose

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) presents a unique opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and business challenges in the financial services sector. ICE team members work across departments and traditional boundaries to innovate and respond to industry demand. A successful candidate will be able to multitask in a dynamic team-based environment demonstrating strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities and the highest degree of professionalism.

We are seeking an experienced AWS Analyst to join our infrastructure cloud team. The infrastructure cloud team is responsible for internal services that provide developer collaboration tools, the build and release pipeline, and shared AWS cloud services platform. The infrastructure cloud team enables engineers to build product features and efficiently and confidently them into production.

Responsibilities

• Develop utilities or furthering existing application and system management tools and processes that reduce manual efforts and increase overall efficiency
• Build and maintain Terraform and scripts to automate and deploy AWS resources and configuration changes
• Proactively monitor system functionality, performance, and configuration issues.
• Experience reviewing and refining design and architecture documents presented by teams for operational readiness, fault tolerance and scalability
• Monitor and research cloud technologies and stay current with trends in the industry
• Participate in an on-call rotation and identify opportunities for reducing toil and avoiding technical debt to reduce support and operations load.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience in an DevOps, preferably DevSecOps, or SRE role in an AWS cloud environment.
• Experience with configuring, managing, solutioning, and architecting with AWS or any other cloud platform (Lambda, EC2, ECS, ELB, EventBridge, Kinesis, Route 53, SNS, SQS, CloudTrail, API Gateway, CloudFront, VPC, TransitGW, IAM, Security Hub, Service Mesh)
• Python, or Golang proficiency.
• Proven background of implementing continuous integration, and delivery for projects.
• A track record of introducing automation to solve administrative and other business as usual tasks.

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

The applicant will receive extra consideration if they have some of the following skills and experience:

• Proficiency in Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible
• A history of delivering services developed in an API-first approach.
• Coming from a system administration, network, or security background.
• Prior experience working with environments of significant scale (thousands of servers)