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AWS Cloud Engineer

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer
Contract Type: Contract
Location: England
Industry:
Salary: Negotiable
Start Date: asap
Duration: Ongoing
REF: SM/C/CE_1636046746
Contact Name: Salome Maybanks
Contact Email: salome.maybanks@projectpeople.com
Job Published: over 2 years ago

Job Description

AWS Cloud Engineer

Contract Opportunity

Home / Remote Working (UK Only)

Are you a Cloud Engineer looking for the next challenge? Can you bring a different perspective to cloud platform engineering and automation while working within an Agile team? Do you want to be proud to work for a company that respects its people and is at the forefront of technology?

My client, a leading IT Services Company, are looking to grow their team with committed people to contribute to our talented teams our customers across the region. We are looking for an AWS Cloud Engineer to become part of a vibrant team of cloud engineers focused on cloud migrations and optimisations for our customers with an understanding of DevOps.

As Cloud Engineer your role will involve: -

- Actively participating as an Agile team member by contributing to the development and estimation of stories based on product features and epics

- Create relevant playbooks and run books as part of any build and run documentation

- Deliver well defined, tested and reusable infrastructure code for pipeline orchestration and automation and scripting to build dynamic cloud infrastructure components

- Work within, but also optimise the constraints of continuous integration and delivery environments

- Carry out quality assurance with peers on code submissions, merge requests and architecture documentation

- Maximise performance and value delivery through establishing effective metrics monitoring

- Participate in the restoration of services during a live incident, including root cause analysis

Essential Skills & Qualifications Required:

- AWS Certified

- Track record of successful hands-on experience implementing and automating cloud solutions

- Experienced in large scale data and cloud migration programmes

- Excellent experience of AWS cloud platform, including migration strategies and approaches, microservices, containers, container orchestration (Kubernetes) and development

- Good knowledge of AWS/Azure Native development, IaaS, continuous integration and development pipeline

- Good use and understanding of tooling such as Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Nexus, JIRA, Cloudwatch + logs etc

- Knowledge of architecture, development and operation of critical systems within a DevOps environment

- Proactive working style and comfortable dealing with ambiguity

- Great analytical skills and quick to learn new cloud technologies

If you are interested in this contract opportunity and have the required experience, please submit your CV on line.

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.