AWS Cloud Engineer

4 weeks ago

Altrincham, Trafford, United Kingdom Informed Solutions Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Cloud Engineer to join our team at Informed Solutions. As a Senior DevOps Specialist, you will be responsible for designing and implementing robust DevOps strategies within our engineering discipline.

Key Responsibilities

  • Engage with clients and colleagues to plan and deliver solutions that apply modern DevOps practices and principles.
  • Design and implement Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines to automate the deployment of software and infrastructure changes through client-owned test and live environments.
  • Identify and configure automated tools to ensure the performance, security, and scalability of solutions.
  • Provide subject matter expertise on DevOps practices and techniques to both internal and client teams.
  • Proactively identify and implement improvements within projects, and where applicable, across the company.
  • Influence company-wide DevOps best practices, standards, tools, and artefacts, and lead efforts to drive adoption across the company.
  • Be an active member of the Engineering discipline, promoting the professional development of others, building new capability, and sharing best practice.
  • Support the ongoing growth of Informed's Engineering capability by helping to recruit technical staff and contributing to InformedACADEMYTM.
  • Get involved in events and industry forums, staying up to date with the latest technology, services, techniques, and methods, and bringing the latest innovations into our work.

Requirements

  • Capability designing and implementing Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines for deploying software through environments, up to and including Production.
  • Hands-on experience applying zero-downtime deployment patterns in Production environments.
  • Skilled in managing cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code technologies.
  • Understanding of distributed systems and container orchestration.
  • Experience with Git-based version control systems for managing solution source code.
  • Proven capability using bash and shell scripting for task automation.
  • Experience configuring Continuous Integration pipelines to run and report on the outcome of automated tests (both functional and non-functional).
  • Expertise in maintaining and continuously improving the security posture of live systems (for example, using automated vulnerability detection and patching technologies).
  • Experience overseeing the implementation of DevOps techniques across team members, mentoring others on best practice.
  • Planning skills with the ability to develop and implement DevOps methodologies that align with business objectives and project timelines.
  • Background in Agile delivery environments, delivering software solutions in controlled increments (e.g., following Scrum, Agile Delivery phases, GDS Service Manual, etc.).
  • Experience working with some, or all, of the following tools and technologies:
    • GitHub Actions
    • Drone.io
    • Hashicorp Terraform
    • AWS CloudFormation
    • Docker
    • Hashicorp Vagrant
    • AWS CloudWatch
    • AWS EventBridge
    • AWS Security Hub (and supporting technologies)
    • AWS CI/CD technologies (CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy)
    • AWS Systems Manager

Desirable Skills and Experience

  • Experience working in a professional services/consultancy environment preferred.
  • Experience applying DevOps tools and techniques with other major cloud providers (Azure, Google Cloud).
  • Awareness of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice is preferred.
  • Ability to deliver as part of multiple projects, concurrently across multiple teams.
  • Ability to explain and simplify complex information to stakeholders.

Personal Qualities

  • You are hands on, solving complex software problems.
  • You lead by example, influencing others through a continuous demonstration of a strong DevOps mindset.
  • Inquisitive, using critical thinking to ask lots of questions, overcome biases, break assumptions, and consider different perspectives.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy.
  • Able to plan and organise your own work, effectively negotiating priorities crossing multiple teams across the business.
  • Able to collaborate with other areas of the business to solve problems.
  • Bring strong technical leadership to your team and the wider discipline.
  • Able to explain difficult or sensitive topics; working to build consensus internally and with the wider business.
  • Able to quickly learn and adapt to new DevOps practices and technologies.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits to our employees, including:

  • InformedACADEMYTM – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
  • Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and physical health support.
  • Hybrid working*
  • Private Health Care Cover*
  • Generous life assurance cover*
  • Gym Membership*
  • Monthly office lunch
  • Onsite massage sessions
  • 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
  • Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
  • Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
  • Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
  • Company Pension Contribution
  • Profit Share Scheme
  • Payment of professional subscriptions
  • Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We're a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and co-design world-class digital services that solve complex business and safety-critical problems, particularly where place, location, or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of.

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produce great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.

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