AWS Engineer
6-month contract – Inside IR35 – up to £480 per day
London based – hybrid working – 3 days office based
Responsibilities:
* Responsible for technical delivery of managed services across customer account base. Working as part of a team providing a Shared Managed Service.
* The following is a list of expected responsibilities:
* To manage and support a customer’s AWS and Data platform
* To be technical hands on
* Provide Incident and problem management on the AWS IaaS and PaaS Platform
* Monitoring and observability of system and platform performance
* Collaboration with development and build teams on application and platform deployments and changes
* Involvement in the resolution of Incidents and problems in an efficient and timely manner
* Actively monitor an AWS platform and components for technical issues
* Implement and improve on existing monitoring and observability solution
* To be involved in the resolution of technical incidents tickets
* Assist in the root cause analysis of incidents
* Assist with improving efficiency and processes within the team
* Examining traces and logs
* Escalate incidents and problems to the appropriate teams
* Working with third party suppliers and AWS to jointly resolve incidents
Experience and Skills Requirements:
Essential
* Technical troubleshooting and problem solving
* AWS management of large-scale IaaS PaaS solutions
* Monitoring and troubleshooting servers, networks, and applications
* Cloud networking and security fundamentals
* Collaboration and communication skills
* Highly adaptable to changes in a technical environment
Desirable
* Experience using monitoring and observer ability toolsets inc. Splunk, Datadog
* Experience using Github Actions
* Experience using AWS RDS/SQL based solutions
* Experience using containerization in AWS
* Working data warehouse knowledge Redshift and Snowflake preferred
* Working with IaC – Terraform and Cloud Formation
* Working understanding of scripting languages including Python and Shell
* Experience working with streaming technologies inc. Kafka, Apache Flink
* Experience working with a ETL environments
* Experience working with a confluent cloud platform