Cloud Engineer (England)

** AWS Cloud Native Engineer – Consultancy (multiple locations available in the UK) – competitive salary and quarterly bonus **

Please note – due to the nature of work, all candidates must have DV clearance (UKIC preferred) that is active and transferable

We are looking for an AWS Cloud Native Engineer to join our consulting client. We have multiple locations available.

An overview of the role

You’ll be joining a passionate, professional and highly skilled team of architects and engineers who specialise in building and integrating custom software solutions at enterprise scale. Innovation in delivery is always at the forefront of our minds, which is why we utilise a variety of cloud, open source and proprietary technologies to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients.

We have world class architecture and software engineering communities; we invest in doing things right and have plenty to say on the subject.

The work

As a senior subject matter expert you will be working with our clients to help define solutions and solve their problems using AWS and related technologies. You will use your in depth expertise to help define the architecture and lead / advise development teams, not being afraid of getting hands on where necessary.

As a member of the Cloud Development team, you will bring a mix of technical skills, industry insight, business acumen and leadership. You will forge close working relationships across capabilities and teams in the UK as well as with our colleagues globally.

• Work on some of the most bleeding edge cloud-native architectures in development today.
• Take end-to-end ownership of delivering solutions & building teams, helping with planning and ensuring requirements are satisfied, to agreed quality according to plan.
• Support estimation, planning and delivery as a Technical Leader.
• Maintain technical relationships with our clients and technology partners.
• Be a trusted technology adviser to our clients as well to colleagues.

Why you?

• Excellent knowledge of AWS and delivering Cloud Native applications using services such as Lambda, EKS, RDS and IAM.
• Experience of using AWS CLI or SAM.
• Experience of migrating and modernising legacy workloads onto the cloud.
• Ideally AWS certified or actively studying to become certified.
• A self-motivated desire to continually learn and improve.
• A strong background in Java or Node.js and core open-source technologies and frameworks; experience of building scalable, resilient and secured applications.
• Experience of working in collaborative teams.
• Experience of Agile / Scrum methodology.
• Working with distributed remote and hybrid teams
• Microservice-based architectures using domain driven design (DDD), CQRS and Event Sourcing patterns.
• Containerisation technologies: Docker or Kubernetes.
• DevOps background/experience.
• API-centric architectures.
• NoSQL databases.
• Infrastructure Testing

Why our client?

Professional development. Accelerated career progression. An environment that encourages entrepreneurial spirit. Although collaboration is at the core of the way they work, they also recognise individual needs with a flexible benefits package you can tailor to suit you.