Cloud Operations Engineer, AWS

MUFG Investor Services; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Greater London is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to ensure the stability and efficiency of its AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include system patching, troubleshooting, and maintaining operational documentation. The ideal candidate should have 3-4 years of cloud operations experience, AWS proficiency, and a strong focus on automation. This mid-senior level position offers a full-time employment opportunity within a dynamic and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years experience in cloud operations, platform engineering, or similar roles.
• Proficient with AWS services and infrastructure.
• Familiar with incident management practices.

Responsibilities

• Perform system patching, upgrades, and maintenance across AWS services.
• Triage and resolve infrastructure alerts to improve observability.
• Contribute to Terraform-based infrastructure and monitoring resources.

Skills

AWS expertise (EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB)

Kubernetes (EKS) operations

Infrastructure monitoring and alert tuning

Linux and Windows server fundamentals

Documentation best practices

Education

3-4 years in cloud operations or platform engineering

Tools

Terraform

Job description

MUFG Investor Services is a trusted partner to many of the world’s largest public and private funds, providing asset servicing and operational solutions built for alternatives. With over $1 trillion in client assets under administration, we offer fund administration, banking, payments, fund financing, foreign exchange overlay, corporate and regulatory services, custody, business consulting, and more. Operating from 17 locations worldwide, we help clients mitigate risk, enhance efficiency, and navigate the operational complexities of today’s investment management landscape. As a division of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s largest financial institutions with approximately $3 trillion in assets, we combine deep expertise with the strength and stability of a leading financial institution. To learn more, visit us at www.mufg-investorservices.com.

Job Description

We’re hiring a Cloud Operations Engineer to ensure the stability, security, and efficiency of our AWS infrastructure and platform services. This role is hands‑on and focused on operational excellence, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement. The engineer will work across a broad cloud environment, supporting patching, upgrades, release execution, alert triage, automation, and security remediation.

Responsibilities

• Perform system patching, upgrades, and maintenance across AWS services (e.g., EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, ALBs/NLBs).
• Support release cycles with proper change control, rollback readiness, and post‑deployment validation.
• Triage and resolve infrastructure alerts (Datadog), contributing to noise reduction and improved observability.
• Participate in a follow‑the‑sun on‑call rotation and incident response.
• Maintain runbooks, ticket hygiene, and operational documentation for repeatable processes.
• Contribute to Terraform‑based infrastructure and monitoring resources.
• Automate recurring operational tasks to improve consistency and reduce manual effort.
• Apply security best practices across IAM, networking, and resource configurations.

Qualifications

• 3‑4 years in cloud operations, platform engineering, or similar.
• Proficiency with AWS (EC2, IAM, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, ALB/NLB).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS) operations and troubleshooting.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and alert tuning.
• Experience with Linux and Windows server fundamentals.
• Passion for best practices in documentation.
• Exposure to platform operations (e.g., releases, upgrades, observability).

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting production workloads in enterprise or highly regulated environments (e.g., financial services, PCI DSS, SOC).
• Exposure to incident management and postmortem practices.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and IaC Terraform.
• Experience collaborating in multi‑team shared‑responsibility environments.

Working Model

• Follow‑the‑sun support with defined handovers and escalation paths.
• Approximately 1 week on‑call every 2 months (after probation).

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Information Technology

Additional Information

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