Description
Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer - Inside IR35
Location: Remote
Salary/Rate: £600 - Inside IR35
Job Type: Contract
One of our leading consultancies is looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to join a six-month project.
Job Responsibilities/Objectives:
- Working within a diverse team across multiple geographies and collaborating with Amazon, you will be involved in various tasks ranging from developing automation, streamlining operational procedures and building out cloud infrastructure consisting of the latest available public cloud services.
Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- Build and deploy infrastructure as code against solution designs using CloudFormation and Terraform
- The utilisation of CI/CD toolings such as Azure DevOps and creating pipelines for build and releases
- Using configuration management tooling such as Puppet
- Utilising cloud-native tools for backup, patching, monitoring and security compliance
- Maintain and support the cloud services platform
- Monitor and maintain multiple cloud solutions to meet project requirements
- Respond to incidents and service health issues in line with service level agreements
- Being part of an agile team participating in product backlog refinement and feedback ceremonies
- Part of an on-call 24x7 rota
Desirable Skills/Experience
Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:
- Operation and support of large, multi-account public cloud platforms
- Any cloud architect/administrator/developer certification (AWS)
- Proven Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
- Proven experience of microservices and container-based systems (Docker, Kubernetes);
- Windows and/or Linux sysadmin certification (eg RHCE);
- Experience of agile project management approaches and product ownership experience (SCRUM, Kanban)
- Experience of Puppet as a configuration management tool
- Fundamental knowledge of security best practices in cloud
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in word/PDF format.
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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