AWS Infrastructure Engineer

Role & responsibilities

In this role you will be expected to:

• Architect and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure AWS infrastructure solutions
• Support hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with a working knowledge of GCP and Azure services.
• Optimise cloud resources for cost, performance, and scalability
• Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform, AWS CloudFormation or similar
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Newrelic or similar
• Enforce security best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, and network segmentation
• Identify opportunities to improve the companies technology capabilities and provide recommendations
• Ensure the smooth running of all technology systems, networks, and applications, and manage any incidents that arise. This includes both infrastructure in the Cloud and on-premise.
• Develop and implement documentation, policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory best practice for systems security
• Stay up to date with new technologies, trends, and best practices and recommend changes or upgrades.
• Deal with escalations from the Operations team for end user issues requiring infrastructure changes or knowledge.

Experience, skills and professional attributes

• Extensive, relevant experience working with AWS with exposure to on-premise environments
• Cloud Management Experience (security, reliability, optimisation, cost management & IAC)
• Strong knowledge of hybrid cloud architecture and connectivity solutions (e.g., AWS Direct Connect, VPN, VPC)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Github
• Experience of collaborating with and supporting other technical teams such as Security, TechOps, DevOps, Engineering and Enablement
• Experience in utilising Atlassian tools to manage, monitor and plan workloads
• Some experience of managing on-premise servers, storage, and networking equipment.
• Familiarity with enterprise backup and recovery tools and strategies
• Cultural awareness and experience as part of an international team

Performance measures:

• Ensuring agreed IT practices are followed
• Working relationships with colleagues, customers and external organisations
• Adherence to and dissemination of IT policies and procedures
• Strong focus on security, performance, availability & recovery (SPAR)
• Deployment of new technology and services
• The ability to meet recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO)
• The meantime between failures (MTBF)
• Awareness of industry trends and a willingness to explore and test new technologies that could benefit our businesses