Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud environments while ensuring compliance with security standards. The position also emphasizes training team members in cloud DevOps best practices and conducting security assessments for AWS workloads. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud architecture and DevOps, particularly with AWS services and Infrastructure-as-Code tools. This is a long-term contract-to-hire position based in the UK, with remote working arrangements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and maintain cloud environments, ensuring compliance with security requirements.
- Promote a culture of cloud DevOps and best practices within the team.
- Conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments for AWS workloads.
- Define standards and templates for cloud architecture patterns using Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Perform administrative tasks related to identity and access management and cloud integrations.
- Analyze application performance and recommend design changes for operational excellence.
Key Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or related fields.
- 5+ years of experience in Cloud Architect or Cloud DevOps Engineer roles.
- Deep understanding of AWS core services including compute, database, identity, and networking.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (CloudFormation and Terraform).
- Proficiency in high-level programming (Python) and SQL databases.
- Solid experience with Linux shell scripts and source version control (git and GitHub).
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines and software configuration management.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer
Location: UK (Remote)
Duration: Long term
Mode of hiring: CTH(after 6 months it will be full time)
Job Description:
What you will do:
- Implementation: Design, implement and maintain our Cloud environment and ensure standards and guardrails are maintained that align with both industry and company-defined security requirements, for a multitude of tools (e.g., AWS EKS, Lambda’s, MWAA) and other Hosted solutions, such as Confluent and Timescale.
- Training and Awareness: Promote a culture of cloud devops and best practices within the team and help train the other members of the team, building a constructive environment.
- Security Assessments: Conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments for data lakehouse workloads on AWS.
- Infrastructure Maintaining: Define the group standards and templates for commonly used cloud architecture patterns and services using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform and CloudFormation).
- Administration: Perform administrative tasks related to identity and access management and cloud integrations, analyze application performance using various tools and techniques, identify improvement areas and recommend design changes for maintaining operational excellence.
What we need from you:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or other related technical majors.
- 5+ years of experience serving in Cloud Architect, Cloud DevOps Engineer or in similar roles.
- Deep understanding of core Cloud services across a broad range of subject domains, including compute, database, identity and networking in AWS.
- Experience with multi-layered Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools (CloudFormation + Terraform).
- Experience in high-level programing (Python)
- Experience in SQL and caching databases (e.g., MySQL, Postgres, S3)
- Solid experience with Linux shell scripts
- Experience with source version control (git and GitHub).
- Experience in CI/CD Pipelines.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with all aspects of the software configuration management (SCM) process, DevOps, and Cloud Infrastructure.
Even better if you have:
- AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer, AWS Solutions Architect, Advanced Networking, Solutions Architect) are a plus.
- Familiarity with common industry and government compliance standards, such as SOC 2 and GDPR.
- Certifications in the field of networking (e.g. CCNA, CCNP).
- Experience in Streaming Services (e.g. Kafka, MQTT)
- Experience developing and operating applications in serverless (AWS Lambda) and container-based (AWS ECS and EKS) environments.
- Experience with Scrum and other Agile processes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- A desire to learn more about Data Engineering and AI/ML.
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