Job Application

Robert Half are working with an established not-for-profit organisation with a national presence as they look to recruit two AWS Cloud Platform Engineers on a permanent basis. These roles can be based remotely with occasional social events in the Midlands.

The role:

• The Cloud Platform Engineer will assist in delivering the DevOps practices, toolchains and methodologies which will play a key part in realising the organisations' IT Vision and strategy.
• You will help to deliver organisational plans for improving the stability, security and scalability of systems, through automation and continuous, iterative improvement.
• You will also be responsible for the design, development, support and maintenance of Middleware/ESB solutions to help streamline business processes and integrations.
• You must support other members of the Cloud Platform, Development and Infrastructure teams in building industry-leading products using robust architectural practices and innovative software solutions that are fit for purpose, meet organisational strategy and are delivered on time and budget.

The responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design, implementation, support and maintenance of the cloud platforms and associated DevOps tool chains.
• Responsible for design, continued development and support of the Middleware/ESB solution.
• Responsible for the design, deployment, and continuous improvement of important infrastructure services (ie logging, monitoring and alerting).
• Analyse and interpret data using a range of techniques; identifying trends, testing solutions, sourcing additional related information where appropriate, and reporting on progress through briefings or formal reports.
• Apply initiative to devise varied solutions, approaching problems from different perspectives and "thinking outside the box."
• Develop and manage software systems for the department, making recommendations for improvements in data and information provision (eg new hardware and software provision).
• Provide guidance and support to more junior colleagues through informal (on-the-job) training/coaching in own area.

Skills/experience required:

• Professionally qualified/relevant degree, plus significant hands-on experience in similar or related roles or proven track record of relevant extensive work experience, demonstrating deep, specialised and or broad knowledge of a field of work gained through experience in a series of progressively more complex roles.

• Practical knowledge and experience using AWS. Especially EC2, EKS, VPC, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Route53, IAM, CloudWatch, Lambda, API Gateway, SNS/SQS.

• Experience working within a DevOps framework, utilising standard practices such as automation, IAC, CI/CD Pipelines, Git & GitOps.

• Experience working with containerisation technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker.

• Experience with monitoring, reporting and centralised logging solutions.

• Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and/or AWS-CDK.

• Knowledge required to deploy and maintain Linux systems (eg Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL)

• Knowledge of software development principles, theory and practices.

• Knowledge of OO Programming and MVC frameworks.

• Knowledge of MySQL/SQL.

• Knowledge and experience using NodeJS/Python.

Salary/Package

• £55,000-£60,000 basic salary
• Remote working - Midlands office available if on-site aspect of the role preferred
• Excellent training/development programme
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• 7% employer pension contributions

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