MARS Recruitment
AWS Cloud Engineer
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Senior AWS Cloud Engineer | Abingdon | £75,000pa plus bonus & benefits | 1 day onsite per week
MARS has partnered a global consultancy to hire a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join a talented IT function. This strategic delivery partners work, spans both private and public enterprises on a global basis, delivering real impactful change, improvements, and transformation for their clients. With an amazing company culture and values, this business really puts its staff at the forefront of what they do.
My client is building a multi-cloud platform department, and their estate today is Microsoft Azure; but they’re establishing a presence in Amazon Web Services (AWS) next, with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to follow. Therefore, they are looking for an engineer whose deepest expertise is in AWS — the AWS expert who will lead the design and build of the AWS landing zone and set the standards we carry into it. Because that AWS environment does not exist yet, your day-to-day work will initially be in Azure, and you will need to be fully willing to design, build, and support in Azure while the AWS platform is established. This is not a people management role. Rather, the Senior Cloud Engineer is the go-to expert: the person who solutionizes complex requirements, leads on architecture decisions, represents the cloud function in project and client conversations, and sets the technical benchmark for the rest of the team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Design and Build of AWS Landing Zone: Set the standards for the AWS environment, including multi-account structure, identity, networking, and guardrails.
- Cross-Platform Expertise: Design, build, and support workloads in both Azure and AWS.
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Use Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation or CDK for provisioning and managing AWS resources, and Bicep for Azure.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Build and maintain pipelines in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
- Scripting and Automation: Use Python, PowerShell, and the AWS and Azure CLIs for automation and operational tasks.
- Integration Services: Work with AWS integration services (EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, Lambda, API Gateway) and Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, API Management).
- AWS Platform Foundations: Experience with multi-account design using AWS Organizations and Control Tower, IAM and IAM Identity Center, VPC networking, and security services such as GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail.
- API Development: Solid experience with SOAP and REST APIs, including design, development, and secure management.
- Version Control: Experience with GitHub, including branching strategies and code review practices.
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Requirements
- SME-level experience designing, building, and operating production workloads in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Willingness to learn and gain the ability to deliver in Microsoft Azure.
- Prior Azure experience is a strong advantage, but a clear commitment to working across both platforms is essential.
- Strong, hands-on proficiency in Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation or CDK for provisioning and managing AWS resources.
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
- Scripting proficiency in Python, PowerShell, and the AWS and Azure CLIs.
- Proficiency in AWS integration services and Azure Integration Services.
- Experience with AWS platform foundations and API development.
- Experience with GitHub version control.
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Benefits
- Competitive salary and generous benefits package includes: Life Assurance, Income Protection, pension contributions, and 27 days holiday (not including bank holidays).
- Profit share scheme based on company performance, typically paid out in March and September.
- Full social calendar with Spring activity days, Christmas events, a 2-day Summer event, and 4 sponsored weekends a year.
Application
If you’re an Azure Cloud Engineer looking for a career-defining opportunity with progression and development, please drop Lee at MARS an application.
MARS Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and positively welcomes applications from suitably qualified applicants regardless of race, colour, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, age, disability, or any other protected status. Suitable candidates for the role will be contacted within 3 working days. Unfortunately, if you haven’t heard back in this time, your application has been unsuccessful at this time.
MARS Recruitment is a specialist Engineering & IT recruiter working in partnership with companies across the UK and offers services of both an Employment Business (for Temporary/Contract roles) and an Employment Agency (for Permanent roles).
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