Jobs in Northampton, United States

Job Title: SC Cleared AWS Engineer
Location: Remote with occasional visits to Malvern for meetings
Duration: Initially until December 2025 with possible extension
Rate: Up to £600 per day via an approved umbrella company

Role Description
Cloud Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and managing cloud-based infrastructure, applications, and services using Infrastructure as Code.
Collaboration with and supporting other engineering teams and assurance teams to ensure alignment with compliance requirements.

Responsibilities & Output

• Design, develop and deploy AWS cloud infrastructure and services to support the delivery and running of P-AIC systems.
• Working to time and budget, the candidate will be responsible for identifying problems, providing pragmatic solutions and Delivering outputs which may include:
• Technical presentation
• Technical documentation
• Test plans and reports
• User guides and work instructions
• Design or process documents
• Infrastructure or software build
• System installation or integration
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Lead or contribute to documentation as required.
• Lead or contribute to testing activities as required.
• Promote best practice, mentor colleagues, and identify continuous improvement ideas and presentation of approaches to internal and external colleagues for awareness.
• Fully engage in the agile development approach, upskilling in SAFe practices where necessary (training can be provided).
• Support and engage with security, safety and compliance activities, incorporating derived requirements into evolution of the design through life.
• Support estimation and the change control processes as needed.

Essential Skills

At least some of the following:

Strong demonstrable Cloud Skills:

• Proficiency in using AWS.
• Experience with a broad range of cloud services.

Automation:

• Strong scripting skills and automation using tools like Ansible.
• Continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline knowledge.

Strong IAC:

• Advanced use of IAC tools and best practices.
• Able to design and implement complex infrastructure.

Security Knowledge:

• Knowledge of cloud security best practices.
• Familiarity and competency with Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Troubleshooting and Debugging:

• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.

Experience in incident response.
Experience working to an Agile methodology
Ability to write technical documentation
Configuration control (Git)
Experience with Terraform

Desirable Skills

Containers and Orchestration:

• Understanding of containerisation (Docker).
• Experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, EKS
• Experience with Helm Chart

Web hosting

Networking

IT Security

Virtual applications/desktops

Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator, or similar

Strong Microsoft skills:

• Proficiency in deploying and managing Microsoft Windows Server
• Proficiency in deploying and managing Active Directory

Able to mentor junior members of the team

GitLab

If this is the role for you please submit your CV at your earliest convenience.