Senior AWS Engineer Contract Cover
hace 25 días
Gatwick
Purpose \n \n\n • Resolve urgent and critical incidents on their AWS hosted estate.\n, • Ensure the infrastructure is secure, resilient, and highly available, following agreed processes.\n, • Provide hands-on support for ongoing operations, problem-solving, implementations, system upgrades, and time-critical operational troubleshooting.\n, • Work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders, demonstrate leadership, and become established as an approachable subject matter expert.\n\n \n \n Key Duties \n \n\n • Critical situation management for the operation and maintenance of the Hosting and Infrastructure\n, • Act as the AWS and cloud infrastructure SME in response to client questions\n, • Sharing your expertise.\n, • Work with colleagues to ensure strict adherence to the contract and established good practice.\n\n \n Person Specification \n \n Technical \n\n • Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, WAF, IAM, Lambda, VPC and more (see below)\n, • Strong proficiency in the Windows ecosystem, including:\n, • Windows Server 22 administration: Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, and DHCP\n, • Windows-based workloads hosted in AWS and hybrid environments\n, • Proficiency in: Terraform, CloudWatch, PRTG, GitHub Code Management and Actions, WAF\n\n \n Customer Orientation \n\n • Work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders, demonstrate leadership, and become established as subject matter expert\n, • Willingness to learn and self-teach.\n, • approachable, customer-focused, and adaptable team player\n\n \n Personal Effectiveness \n\n • Demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.\n, • Keep up to date with changes in technology and apply new knowledge, embracing opportunities to share with colleagues.\n\n Operational \n\n • Reduction in service interruptions, infrastructure costs and customer issues\n, • Ensure the infrastructure is future-proof and well managed\n\n Key Performance Indicators \n \n Act decisively and proactively to mitigate or minimise service-affecting issues. \n Efficient resource management. \n Keeping service information up to date. \n Qualifications & Experience \n\n • Experienced in EC2s\n, • Minimum three years' proven experience in a similar role.\n, • Solid understanding of networking, security, and best practices in cloud architecture.\n, • Good working knowledge of Windows Server operating systems and associated technologies.\n, • UK Government Security Clearance (SC) must be held.\n, • AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, or other relevant AWS certifications, Python and other coding experience would be an advantage.\n, • Experience with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).\n\n Health & Safety Training \n\n • As per internal training matrix\n