SC Cleared AWS Platform Engineer

Synergize Consulting Ltd
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Tech stack

Java
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Computing Platforms
Confluence
Cloud Engineering
Code Review
Continuous Integration
Linux
DevOps
Github
Identity and Access Management
IP Addressing
Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
Linux System Administration
Microsoft Software
Networking Basics
Routing
Nginx
OpenVPN
Peering
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - RHEL
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ansible
SharePoint
TCP/IP
Java Application Server
Load Balancing
Autoscaling
Boto3
Technical Debt
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Git Flow
Terraform
ServiceNow

Job description

You'll be responsible for supporting, maintaining and improving AWS cloud platforms, ensuring they remain secure, reliable and scalable. Working alongside engineering and security teams, you'll help deliver cloud infrastructure solutions while applying automation and DevOps best practices., * Administer and support AWS cloud environments across multiple accounts

  • Manage AWS services including:
  • EC2
  • Auto Scaling Groups
  • Load Balancers
  • Target Groups
  • IAM roles, policies and permissions
  • Secrets Manager
  • Systems Manager
  • Support AWS networking including:
  • VPCs
  • Routing
  • VPC Peering
  • Security controls
  • Build and maintain Linux-based platforms, particularly Red Hat environments
  • Develop automation using Ansible and Terraform/OpenTofu
  • Support CI/CD processes using Git-based workflows
  • Troubleshoot Linux systems, Java applications, JVM processes and Nginx configurations
  • Monitor and optimise platform performance across compute, memory and storage
  • Implement security controls across cloud and infrastructure layers

Requirements

AWS Platform Administration

  • AWS EC2, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers and Target Groups
  • IAM roles, policies, permissions and instance profiles
  • Multi-account AWS environments
  • AWS Systems Manager and Secrets Manager
  • AWS networking (VPC, routing, peering)
  • Terraform or OpenTofu

Linux & DevOps

  • Strong Linux administration experience (Red Hat/RHEL preferred)
  • Ansible automation
  • Git workflows (GitHub, repositories, branches, code reviews)
  • Networking fundamentals:
  • TCP/IP
  • IP Addressing
  • CIDR
  • TLS certificates
  • Nginx configuration and reverse proxying
  • Java application support and JVM troubleshooting
  • SSH and OpenVPN

Security Experience

  • Strong understanding of infrastructure security principles
  • Experience working within secure or governance-led environments
  • Ability to collaborate with security teams to deliver compliant solutions

Desirable Experience

  • AWS Organisations and Service Control Policies
  • AWS CLI and/or Boto3
  • ServiceNow
  • Microsoft technologies including SSO and SharePoint
  • Experience reducing technical debt through simplified platform design
  • Technical documentation using Confluence or similar tools
  • Defence, Government or regulated sector experience

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