AWS Cloud Engineer

Role Purpose:
The AWS Cloud Engineer will fulfil a pivotal role within the IT function, being the technical authority for the Cloud framework whilst remaining hands on as a technical support.
The engineer will lead initiatives and provide technical guidance in order to effectively develop and deploy applications to AWS, maintaining best security practices and IT Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:
• AWS Cloud configuration management and monitoring storage and alerts
• Research and implement new technology to compliment both IT Services operations and a defence-in-depth strategy
• Architect and delivering new environments and services
• Ensure effective security of the IT and Cloud environments
• Develop standards, processes, procedures and guidelines for IT and Cloud infrastructure management
• Security in the Software Development and Release Lifecycle
• Ensure secure and dependable connectivity to services
• Incident response
• Backup and Disaster Recovery

Key Skills & Experience

• Financial services experience is preferable, ideally within a challenger bank or financial technology (‘FinTech’) organisation
• Experience working within a ‘cloud-first’ and primarily an outsourced business environment.
• Hands-on public Cloud Computing and Security experience
• Solid knowledge of AWS Cloud architecture principles and practical experience of building Cloud environments
• Strong knowledge of network and security engineering
• Project planning, management and delivery skills within the context of a broader Cloud and/or cyber security program – 5+ years’ experience
• IT Management – Several years of combined IT and security experience
• AWS Certifications
• ITIL knowledge

5+ years of experience architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms

Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics

Proven ability to collaborative with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists, and subject matter experts

AWS certifications are a plus

Knowledge of web services, API, REST, and RPC