Infrastructure Engineer (Banking/ 12 Months Contract/ East)

About the role

This role will require the candidate to architect and build solutions with AWS services to achieve business outcomes, as well as building dashboards with cost optimization and compliance views to enhance the experience on public cloud. The candidate would be responsible for solutioning/building highly secure, scalable and resilient services within the hosting facility (Evolve) and deliver support for those services. The candidate should be highly analytical and technology savvy with strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build automated systems to streamline deployment, monitoring, and operations using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
• Develop and implement robust CI/CD pipelines, working closely with development teams to promote automation in testing and releases.
• Leverage public cloud APIs and services to architect scalable, fault-tolerant automation solutions.
• Research and evaluate new tools and technologies for automating security, infrastructure, and operations.
• Implement automated security monitoring, alerting, and remediation to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Create proofs of concept and prototypes to demonstrate the value of proposed automation solutions.
• Work closely with stakeholders and development teams to gather requirements and design appropriate automated solutions to address complex business needs.
• Build dashboards displaying metrics to enhance the customer journey such as cost optimization and compliance views.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest trends and practices in automation to bring innovative solutions to the organization.

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience with AWS, including deploying and managing infrastructure and services.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible to automate provisioning, configuration management, and orchestration.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing frameworks, and deployment automation using Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI, or similar.
• Strong Python or Java skills with experience building custom automation tooling/dashboards and integrations leveraging public cloud APIs.
• Knowledge of containers and orchestrators like Kubernetes as well as serverless architectures.
• Understanding of infrastructure monitoring, log analysis, and automation for incident response.
• Ability to instrument, validate, and automate security controls.
• Knowledge of devops culture, site reliability engineering and agile methodologies.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders and development teams.
• Staying current on the latest automation tools, methodologies, and cloud-native technologies.
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional (Preferred)