AWS Cloud Platform Engineer
Posted Today by Neev
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The AWS Cloud Platform Engineer role involves maintaining and enhancing AWS cloud infrastructure to support 24/7 banking operations, ensuring stability, performance, security, and compliance. The position requires designing automation tools, managing vendor relationships, and participating in on-call rotations to ensure platform reliability. Candidates should possess strong technical skills in AWS, infrastructure as code, and programming languages. The role emphasizes collaboration with application developers to improve the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and overall developer experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure for 24/7 bank operations, focusing on stability, performance, security, and compliance
- Enhance connectivity between AWS accounts, client, and third parties to ensure secure and reliable customer experiences
- Design and create automation scripts and tooling using Bash, Python, or Go
- Build and support cloud platforms for application developers, improving SDLC and developer experience
- Manage vendor relationships and coordinate project efforts across business areas
- Participate in on-call rotation to support platform reliability
Key Skills:
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Understanding of AWS networking concepts
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes cluster operations (EKS)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio)
- Experience configuring and managing reverse proxies (Traefik, NGINX, HAProxy)
- Proficiency in Go programming language
- Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP, VPN)
- Familiarity with network monitoring and diagnostic tools
- Commitment to DevOps principles and SDLC best practices
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Below is the updated JD for the AWS role,
Job Responsibilities:
- Maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure for 24/7 bank operations, focusing on stability, performance, security, and compliance
- Enhance connectivity between AWS accounts, client, and third parties to ensure secure and reliable customer experiences
- Design and create automation scripts and tooling using Bash, Python, or Go
- Build and support cloud platforms for application developers, improving SDLC and developer experience
- Manage vendor relationships and coordinate project efforts across business areas
- Participate in on-call rotation to support platform reliability
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
- Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Understanding of AWS networking concepts
- Analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes cluster operations (EKS)
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio)
- Experience configuring and managing reverse proxies (Traefik, NGINX, HAProxy)
- Proficiency in Go programming language
- Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP, VPN)
- Familiarity with network monitoring and diagnostic tools
- Commitment to DevOps principles and SDLC best practices