AWS Cloud Engineer / SRE

NonStop Recruitment
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 172K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bash
Continuous Integration
Software Debugging
DevOps
Subnetting
OSI Models
Python
Network Security
Network Planning and Design
Routing
Squid (Proxy Server)
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Data Logging
Transport Layer Security
Autoscaling
Grafana
Firewalls (Computer Science)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
GIT
Gitlab-ci
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Cloudwatch
Terraform
Artifactory

Job description

  • Building and maintaining DevOps / CI/CD toolchains to support multiple product teams
  • Automating infrastructure and environments with Terraform, Bash and Python
  • Owning monitoring, logging and reliability using CloudWatch and Grafana
  • Supporting live test environments, troubleshooting complex issues and improving reliability

Requirements

  • AWS - strong experience, ideally backed by certification
  • Core services: EC2, ALB, Auto Scaling Groups, VPC networking (routing, subnets, IGW, NACLs, security groups)
  • Containers & orchestration: EKS
  • CI/CD & tooling: Git (solid understanding of flows), GitLab CI admin (self-hosted ideally), Artifactory admin
  • Automation & scripting: Terraform, Bash, Python
  • Observability: CloudWatch, Grafana, log-based troubleshooting, * Building and managing secure AWS landing zones (essential)
  • Proxy Squid (essential), ForitProxy (nice to have)
  • Account Factory experience (nice to have)
  • Networking / Ingress focus (SEO roles for Ingress team):
  • Deep understanding of networking (OSI model, TCP/IP stack, TLS handshake, TCP 3-way handshake)
  • Transit Gateway and wider network design
  • Network security - firewalls, WAF, Suricata (nice to have)
  • Excellent diagnostic and troubleshooting skills using logs and metrics

What our client is looking for

  • Hands-on AWS engineering background, ideally in complex / regulated environments
  • Solid DevOps mindset - you're comfortable automating, testing and operating what you build
  • Experience designing with security controls embedded from the outset
  • Ability to design and implement medium-to-high complexity scripts, services and integrations
  • Strong problem-solving and debugging skills in live and pre-production environments

If you have strong AWS, Terraform and CI/CD experience (especially with a focus on networking, landing zones or SRE-style work) and are open to a new contract in London, this could be a very good fit.

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