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Cloud Engineer

This role is for a Cloud Engineer (AWS) on a contract basis with a competitive pay rate. Key skills include AWS infrastructure, CI/CD tools, and microservice architectures. Experience with Terraform, Docker, and monitoring tools is essential.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
💰 - Day rate
Unknown
Unknown
🗓️ - Date discovered
February 20, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
📄 - Contract type
Unknown
🔒 - Security clearance
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📍 - Location detailed
Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
🧠 - Skills detailed
#AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Kubernetes #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #SQS (Simple Queue Service) #EC2 #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #Deployment #Terraform #DynamoDB #API (Application Programming Interface) #VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) #GitHub #Docker #Scala #DevSecOps #Ansible #Artifactory #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Shell Scripting #WAF (Web Application Firewall) #SNS (Simple Notification Service) #Scripting #Monitoring #Cloud #Security #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #Jenkins
Role description
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Cloud Engineer – AWS

As a Cloud Engineer, you will play a key role within our customers Engineering Applications team. Your responsibilities will involve optimizing, scaling, and enhancing our AWS infrastructure, while providing vital operational support across various engineering teams. You will have the opportunity to work on establishing new cloud engineering best practices, develop tools and systems, and help innovate our cloud-based architecture.

Key Responsibilities:
• Provide operational support for both on-premises and AWS-based platforms
• Design, implement, and improve monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting processes
• Develop and manage dashboards, alerts, and reporting tools for performance and health monitoring using services such as CloudWatch and New Relic
• Automate the deployment and management of cloud-based solutions within AWS
• Troubleshoot complex issues across AWS cloud environments
• Oversee and improve CI/CD pipeline operations across all development environments
• Collaborate with engineering teams to address platform requirements and resolve any related issues
• Build and manage scalable, high-performance cloud deployments on a global scale
• Maintain consistent communication with relevant stakeholders regarding platform performance and issues

Essential Technology Stack:
• Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless Framework, AWS-CDK
• AWS services: Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, S3, EC2, WAF, IAM, VPC, EKS, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, etc.
• GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Shell scripting
• JFrog Artifactory, SonarCloud
• Monitoring tools: New Relic, CloudWatch, ELK stack
• Kubernetes (K8s), Helm

Skills & Qualifications
• Strong ability to troubleshoot and document technical issues
• In-depth experience with AWS infrastructure and services (EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk, etc.)
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Bamboo
• Solid understanding of web security principles and DevSecOps practices
• Experience with microservice architectures (serverless and containerized solutions)