Junior AWS Cloud Engineer

Junior AWS Cloud Engineer

To £70, 000 Plus Bonus (hyrbrid 1 day a week in office)

Quant Capital is urgently looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our high profile client.

Our client is a recently acquired financial technology business who is currently taking the factoring and invoicing market by storm. This is a brand new project to create an e-factoring platform and CRM system from scratch.

The primary focus will be the support of new & existing technologies deployed in an AWS cloud. The Platform and Infrastructure team are a tight knit group who will work with you ensure that all current and future IT platforms are designed right, built right and managed in a controlled and secure fashion.

The environment is that of Facebook or Google, relaxed open with time to think and make the right decisions. The atmosphere is calm and relaxed with an open dress code. This is a role for those who are motivated by the sharp end of technology and the possibility of making serious money doing something you are passionate about.

AWS Engineer Responsibilities:

• Ensure AWS Cloud Infrastructure achieves agreed SLAs. Create, maintain and support proactive service management e.g. capacity and availability etc. and take responsibility for incident, problems and change etc.
• Introducing new cloud infrastructure services (operationalizing, building, etc.) which adheres relevant governance controls and service qualities
• Ensure creative, well organized, readable and tested code is delivered within the constraints of continuous integration and delivery environments
• Act as a subject matter expert for connectivity and security aspects in relation to public and private cloud-based hosting solutions
• Create relevant playbooks and run books as part of any build and run documentation
• Deliver well defined, reusable infrastructure code for pipeline orchestration and automation and scripting to build dynamic cloud infrastructure components
• Design and introduce relevant automated support for code validation and reducing the potential for defects, Functional and non-functional service testing for cloud infrastructure services
• Quality built in by default into any infrastructure code and documentation
• Propose secure, scalable, reusable solutions using AWS products
• Evaluate and make use of new AWS features to improve our architecture
• Document of all exciting and future solutions
• Work as part of a 24×7 support function

As an AWS Cloud Engineer you will have:

• Experienced with AWS operations, EC2 and Cloudformation
• Including the design of VPCs, networking, RDS, API gateways, EKS, ECS, etc
• Experience in working within an Agile and Cloud environment, with a focus on secure, availability, reliability and automation
• Ideally some scripting in Bash or Powershell

My client is based in Central London, this role is Remote but will require occasional office work.