Job Title: Systems Engineer
Location: Remote + Quarterly Planning Sessions in Bristol
Remuneration: £600 per day via Umbrella Company
Contract Details: Temporary - 6 Months (Scope for Extensions)
Responsibilities
Our client is seeking a talented Systems Engineer to play a pivotal role in a transformative modernisation programme. The organisation is replacing ageing on-premises systems with a cutting-edge cloud-native architecture within a greenfield AWS environment. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to significant advancements in technology and operational excellence.
- Analysing and understanding existing legacy systems and infrastructure.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to define future-state requirements and translating them into scalable cloud solutions.
- Designing and building infrastructure within a greenfield AWS environment.
- Supporting the migration and replacement of legacy applications with modern cloud-native services.
- Defining infrastructure architecture, standards, and operational approaches for new platforms.
- Building and supporting environments for data platforms, web-based applications, mapping and GIS tools, and microservices-based platforms.
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code and automation where appropriate.
- Ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, and compliant with security requirements.
- Identifying technical challenges and providing appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Driving operational excellence through monitoring, automation, and performance optimisation.
Required Experience
To succeed in this role, candidates should possess:
- A strong background in Systems Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps.
- Hands-on experience designing and building AWS infrastructure and cloud-native solutions.
- Experience in modernising or migrating legacy systems to cloud environments.
- A solid understanding of microservices architectures and distributed systems.
- Knowledge of infrastructure security, governance, and compliance requirements.
- Familiarity with automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code practises.
- The ability to engage with both technical and business stakeholders to gather and define requirements.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale platforms and applications.
Desirable Experience
Candidates with the following qualifications will stand out:
- Python development or scripting experience.
- Exposure to mapping/GIS technologies.
- Experience in large-scale regulated or critical infrastructure environments.
Candidate Summary
This role is ideal for a senior engineer ready to assess National Grid's current systems and help build a robust future state. The successful contractor will be instrumental in designing secure and scalable AWS infrastructure to support modern applications and microservices while retiring legacy technology. This is a fantastic opportunity to enhance overall engineering capability and contribute to best practises in a collaborative environment.
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