Staff Platform Engineer

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As a Staff Platform Engineer, you will be a senior contributor within the AWS Cloud Foundations crew responsible for the safe, sound and secure delivery and operation of AWS infrastructure across the group. The Staff Engineer is required to influence, engineer, design, build and run world class products and services.

Roles & Responsibilities: -

• Designing and developing new tools and AWS cloud services to be integrated across the bank.
• Design, Develop, Manage and Support System Resources in AWS environment across the bank, ensuring networking and security standards and best practices are maintained.
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure design and operations.
• Driving automation through understanding processes and implementing improvements.
• Presenting your work to peers in your immediate team and to engineers, scientists, and managers across the broader Systems Engineering community
• Evaluate new technologies on an ongoing basis and participate in design activities across the Crew.
• Work closely with Chapter Lead, Product Owner and Peers and consistently add value to the Crew.
• Provide support on-call for AWS production environments across the Bank.
• Building monitoring, fine-tuning alerts and health-check dashboards.
• Lead and support deployment activities across platforms including

  AWS

  ,

  DHP

  ,

  API gateways

  , and

  Kafka streamers

  .
• Architect, build, and maintain scalable and secure

  AWS environments

  .
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver platform capabilities aligned with business goals.
• Implement and manage

  Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

  using tools like

  Terraform

  ,

  CloudFormation

  , and

  CDK

  .
• Develop and maintain

  CI/CD pipelines

  using

  CodeBuild

  ,

  Jenkins

  ,

  GitLab

  , and

  GitHub Actions

  .
• Automate operational tasks using

  Bash

  ,

  Python

  , or

  PowerShell

  scripting.
• Ensure platform security and compliance using

  IAM

  ,

  KMS

  ,

  GuardDuty

  ,

  Config

  , and

  Inspector

  .
• Manage networking components including

  VPC

  ,

  subnets

  ,

  NAT gateways

  ,

  load balancers

  ,

  VPNs

  , and

  Direct Connect

  .
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams.

Essential Skills: -

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team;

• Solid Experience working in a build and execution capacity within AWS Cloud Services.
• 12 + years of relevant IT experience
• Deep expertise in

  AWS services

  : EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS/EKS, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route 53.
• Strong proficiency in

  Linux

  (preferred) and

  Windows

  operating systems.
• Hands-on experience with

  IaC tools

  : Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK.
• Proven track record with

  CI/CD tools

  : CodeBuild, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions.
• Solid scripting skills in

  Bash

  ,

  Python

  , or

  PowerShell

  .
• Strong understanding of

  networking and security

  in cloud environments.
• Experience supporting

  Kafka streamers

  and

  API deployments

  .
• AWS Associate or above certification is desirable.
• Excellent

  problem-solving

  and

  critical thinking

  abilities.
• Strong

  communication

  and

  documentation

  skills.
• Ability to thrive in

  cross-functional teams

  and dynamic environments.

Education Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree/Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology