AWS Cloud Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by Advanced Resource Managers
£480 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The AWS Engineer role is a 6-month contract position based in London, requiring hybrid working with three days in the office. The engineer will be responsible for the technical delivery of managed services across customer accounts, focusing on AWS and Data platform management. Key duties include incident management, monitoring system performance, and collaborating with development teams for application deployments. The position is classified as inside IR35 with a daily rate of up to £480.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and support a customer’s AWS and Data platform
- Provide technical hands-on support
- Conduct incident and problem management on the AWS IaaS and PaaS Platform
- Monitor and observe system and platform performance
- Collaborate with development and build teams on application and platform deployments and changes
- Resolve incidents and problems efficiently and timely
- Actively monitor AWS platform and components for technical issues
- Implement and improve existing monitoring and observability solutions
- Assist in root cause analysis of incidents
- Improve efficiency and processes within the team
- Examine traces and logs
- Escalate incidents and problems to appropriate teams
- Work with third-party suppliers and AWS to resolve incidents
Key Skills:
- Technical troubleshooting and problem-solving
- AWS management of large-scale IaaS PaaS solutions
- Monitoring and troubleshooting servers, networks, and applications
- Cloud networking and security fundamentals
- Collaboration and communication skills
- Highly adaptable to changes in a technical environment
- Experience using monitoring and observability toolsets (e.g., Splunk, Datadog)
- Experience using Github Actions
- Experience using AWS RDS/SQL based solutions
- Experience using containerization in AWS
- Working knowledge of data warehouses (Redshift and Snowflake preferred)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Terraform and Cloud Formation
- Working understanding of scripting languages (Python and Shell)
- Experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Apache Flink)
- Experience in ETL environments
- Experience with a Confluent cloud platform
Salary (Rate): £480 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
AWS Engineer 6-month contract – Inside IR35 – up to £480 per day London based – hybrid working – 3 days office based
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for technical delivery of managed services across customer account base.
- Working as part of a team providing a Shared Managed Service.
- The following is a list of expected responsibilities:
- To manage and support a customer’s AWS and Data platform
- To be technical hands on
- Provide Incident and problem management on the AWS IaaS and PaaS Platform
- Monitoring and observability of system and platform performance
- Collaboration with development and build teams on application and platform deployments and changes
- Involvement in the resolution of Incidents and problems in an efficient and timely manner
- Actively monitor an AWS platform and components for technical issues
- Implement and improve on existing monitoring and observability solution
- To be involved in the resolution of technical incidents tickets
- Assist in the root cause analysis of incidents
- Assist with improving efficiency and processes within the team
- Examining traces and logs
- Escalate incidents and problems to the appropriate teams
- Working with third party suppliers and AWS to jointly resolve incidents
Experience and Skills Requirements:
Essential
- Technical troubleshooting and problem solving
- AWS management of large-scale IaaS PaaS solutions
- Monitoring and troubleshooting servers, networks, and applications
- Cloud networking and security fundamentals
- Collaboration and communication skills
- Highly adaptable to changes in a technical environment
Desirable
- Experience using monitoring and observer ability toolsets inc. Splunk, Datadog
- Experience using Github Actions
- Experience using AWS RDS/SQL based solutions
- Experience using containerization in AWS
- Working data warehouse knowledge Redshift and Snowflake preferred
- Working with IaC – Terraform and Cloud Formation
- Working understanding of scripting languages including Python and Shell
- Experience working with streaming technologies inc. Kafka, Apache Flink
- Experience working with a ETL environments
- Experience working with a confluent cloud platform