AWS Cloud Engineer - Central Government

Role: AWS Cloud Engineer x 2 REF 98229
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: London
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: SC requested

Spinwell is recruiting for an AWS Cloud Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AWS CLOUD ENGINEER

• Supports the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices.
• Responsible for underpinning good development processes including managing tools and testing environments, central code control, maintaining development standards and writing software that automates systems.
• Delivering automated software components that form part of a development operations toolchain.
• Transforming technical requirements into DevOps processes; build complex stories without additional support; manage live test environments; identify and resolve issues preventing delivery.

  SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE AWS CLOUD ENGINEER

• AWS certs or experience
• General DevOps/CICD hands on experience
• Terraform, bash and python scripting
• Solid understanding of Git usage and workflows
• Strong EC2/ ALB/ ASG
• EKS
• CloudWatch/ Grafana
• Gitlab CI admin (self-hosted ideally)
• Artifactory admin (self-hosted ideally)
• SEO x1 role for product team
  • Building / Managing Landing Zones experience (essential)
  • Proxy Squid (essential)
  • VPC networking (essentials) – routing, subnets, IGW, NACLs, SGs
  • Account Factory experience (nice to have)
• SEO x2 roles for Ingress team
  • Networking (OSI model, TCP/IP stack, TLS handshake, tcp 3-way handshake - SYN/SYN-ACK/ACK)
  • Transit Gateway
  • Network security (any kind of firewall, WAF, suricata (nice to have))
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills
  • CloudWatch logs (for troubleshooting)

If you are an AWS Cloud Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

We welcome all applications regardless of background, in line with our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion.

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Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, the client guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant

The client is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us and quote the role you are applying for.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

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