DV Cleared AWS Platform Engineer

AWS Platform Engineer / enhanced DV cleared / 12 months / London or Manchester or Leeds

Job Description

As a key member of a Cloud Platform Team, you’ll be working with our National Security Customers to build infrastructure platforms on AWS that Product Engineering teams use to build core mission applications. You’ll work as part of empowered, autonomous teams with regular contact with Engineering teams and end-users to flexibly and efficiently understand, design, develop, deploy and maintain infrastructure platforms on AWS.

We fully embrace DevOps ways of working in our teams, and build a very broad range of capabilities for our customers. We therefore value Engineers who enjoy playing a role in the full delivery lifecycle and are flexible to learn and pick up new technologies and approaches. You’ll be playing a role in identifying the right technologies to use for the job and be supported with training as needed through access to services such as Cloud Academy and Pluralsight.

About you

You will have experience in many of the following:

1. Plenty of experience in AWS and experience in solving complex business issues; regarded as an AWS subject matter expert
2. Demonstrable expertise designing and building with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, Lambda, RDS, KMS, ELB, SNS, SQS, IAM
3. Scripting abilities with languages such as Shell, Bash, or Python
4. A working knowledge of Linux, networking, routing & firewalls etc.
5. Strong understanding of operational concepts on AWS, particularly monitoring and observability, FinOps
6. Proficient in Infrastructure as Code technologies (e.g., CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
7. Source controlling your code with Version Control Systems, for example, Git, Mercurial, Perforce
8. Great communication and problem-solving skills, and a desire to learn new technologies
9. Working in an Agile environment (e.g., Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, XP, etc.)

It would be great if you also had experience in some of these, but if not we’ll help you with them:

1. AWS Certification at Associate level, e.g., Solution Architect, Developer, or DevOps
2. Coding experience of at least 1 Lambda compatible language
3. Docker, and container runtime platforms such as Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, etc.
4. Utilising CI/CD tools, such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, Bitbucket, in order to streamline delivery of new features and fixes
5. Continual testing of code using Automated Testing Frameworks