Key skills
AWSCloudDynamoDBEC2TerraformCloudFormationLambdaS3RDSCloudFrontIAMCloudWatchAPI GatewayCI/CDLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationSalesNetwork SecurityCloud Security
About this role
Role Overview
- Work closely with clients to understand their business requirements and design customised solutions using AWS services and technologies.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure AWS solutions, utilising best practices and industry standards.
- Act as a hands-on technical contributor within project teams, directly implementing AWS infrastructure, migrations, and modernisation activities in customer environments.
- Lead and execute AWS migration activities, including server, database, and application migrations using services such as AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), DMS, and related tooling.
- Work with DevOps teams to implement automation, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code, using tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform.
- Ensure solutions are optimised for performance, availability, and cost, and provide recommendations for cost optimisation and resource utilisation.
- Collaborate with cross-functional delivery teams, working directly alongside engineers, PMs, and customers to deliver production-ready AWS solutions.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior team members and participate in knowledge-sharing and training initiatives.
- Stay current with AWS technologies, best practices, and industry trends, and provide thought leadership and guidance to clients and internal teams.
- Develop and maintain documentation, including architecture diagrams, technical specifications, and operational procedures.
- Participate in pre-sales activities such as scoping and estimation where required, while remaining primarily accountable for post-signature technical delivery and implementation.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in designing and deploying AWS solutions, including but not limited to EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, and IAM.
- At least 5 years technical experience with cloud technologies and/or on-premise infrastructure
- Proven experience delivering AWS projects end-to-end, including building, configuring, deploying, and supporting production AWS environments.
- Strong hands-on experience migrating workloads into AWS, including planning, executing, validating, and supporting migrations using tools such as AWS MGN and AWS Transform.
- Some exposure to the AWS MAP programme is useful.
- Strong understanding of AWS architecture and services, including networking, security, storage, and compute.
- Experience with designing and implementing highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable solutions on AWS.
- Strong understanding of cloud security best practices, including IAM policies, encryption, and network security.
- Hands-on experience writing, deploying, and maintaining infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform in live customer environments.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Cloud
- DynamoDB
- EC2
- Terraform
Benefits
- 25 Days Paid Time-off
- Birthday Leave
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Flexible Working
- Early Friday Finish (Monthly)
- Company Laptop and Peripherals
- Company Sabbatical Scheme
- Personalised Training & Development Plan
- Annual Wellness Allowance
- Company Events
- Private Health Insurance
- Wellbeing support
- Mental Health Champions
- Calm app subscription