Cloud Engineer - AWS

• Collaborate with Engineering Teams: Work closely with our engineering teams to identify, design, and implement the most efficient and cost-effective cloud-based solutions that align with the company's objectives and technical requirements.
• Establish Best Practices: Define, document, and promote best practices and strategies for application deployment, infrastructure management, and continuous improvement of our cloud environment.
• Mentorship and Guidance: Provide strategic guidance, thought leadership, and hands-on mentorship to developer teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and enhancing the organisation's overall cloud proficiency.
• Ensure Performance and Reliability: Maintain high standards of application performance, scalability, and availability while upholding best practices for code quality and efficient system design.
• Cloud Security Management: Oversee the configuration and management of cloud environments, ensuring compliance with company security policies and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with Lead Solution Architects: Develop and implement AWS-based technical solutions for large-scale data processing, intensive statistical modelling, and advanced analytics. Design a scalable, secure, and highly available architecture tailored to project needs.
• Full Software Development Lifecycle: Participate in planning, requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and quality assurance of AWS solutions. Apply agile methodologies to deliver reliable cloud-native applications efficiently.
• Serverless Application Design: Architect and deploy serverless solutions using AWS services like AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Step Functions, EventBridge, SQS, and SNS. Ensure applications are optimised for performance and cost-efficiency.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use tools like AWS CloudFormation and Terraform to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure. Implement best practices for version control, reusability, and infrastructure scaling.
• Data Processing and ETL: Use AWS Glue for data transformations, schema discovery, and ETL operations. Manage real-time data streams with Amazon Kinesis or Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), and deploy EKS for container orchestration.
• Database Migration and Management: Utilise AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) to transfer data from on-premises databases to AWS or migrate data between AWS databases. Ensure optimal performance and data integrity.
• CI/CD and Automation: Automate deployment pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy. Implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices to accelerate software delivery.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), virtual private cloud (VPC) design, encryption, and compliance standards. Conduct regular security assessments and audits.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Set up monitoring, logging, and alerting using AWS CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and other observability tools. Quickly diagnose and resolve issues, perform root cause analysis, and document solutions.
• Incident Management and Prevention: Proactively troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure incidents, implementing preventive measures to improve system reliability and availability.
• Training and Enablement: Educate and mentor teams on cloud adoption, AWS services, and best practices. Provide training sessions to ensure knowledge transfer and promote a cloud-first culture.
• AWS Account Management: Ensure AWS resources adhere to governance policies. Optimise costs and enforce security and operational standards across accounts.
• Architect for Scalability and High Availability: Build scalable and highly available solutions using AWS services such as EC2 RDS, and S3 For seamless scaling, consider a microservices architecture using ECS, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda.
• Disaster Recovery Planning: Develop robust disaster recovery strategies using AWS Backup, cross-region replication, and snapshot management. Test and validate recovery procedures regularly.
• DevOps and Continuous Improvement: Integrate DevOps practices by leveraging AWS services. Continuously improve deployment speed, application performance, and resource efficiency.

Requirements:

• Experience: 8-15 years of hands-on experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms.
• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, mathematics, or a related field.
• Certifications: AWS Certification(s), such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or relevant speciality c