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680
Department
IT | IT Development
Location
Swindon - HQ
Employment type
Full-time
Salary
65,000
Description

We are looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join our small technical team here at Oak Furnitureland.  This role involves utilising your expertise as an AWS subject matter expert to design, implement, manage and optimise our cloud-based solutions to support our business needs. 

This role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and a focus on enhancing automation, system performance, networking, security, and DevSecOps practices. This role is also crucial in helping us operate within cloud environments efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively.

We offer hybrid working with 2 days in our Swindon Head Office and 3 working from home.

Key responsibilities:

  • Leading from the front, design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure.
  • Ensure cloud systems align with business objectives and technical requirements.
  • Perform root cause analysis to diagnose configuration and deployment issues
  • Build and manage a programme of upgrades to include vulnerability management patching
  • Where necessary, be responsible for managing cloud migrations.
  • Define and implement AWS cloud configurations and manage changes to ensure environment consistency.
  • Development and implementation of automation tools and scripts to optimise repetitive tasks
  • Development and implementation of monitoring tools to track the performance, availability and security of our cloud services with proactive identification and resolution of issues where possible
  • Support incident resolution collaborating with development and IT technical teams to minimise downtime and optimised our service quality.
  • Work with the leadership team to monitor and analyse AWS cloud resource usage looking for savings opportunities leveraging tools such as Cloudwatch.
  • Working with the security team, implement and enforce security policies, best practices and compliance requirements to protect sensitive data and maintain our infrastructure integrity.
  • Implement solutions for disaster recovery and failover.
  • Point of escalation for on-call engineers
  • Working with the Operations Manager and Head of Technical, identify gaps within the technology teams.
  • Partner with security to ensure we are safeguarded from emerging threats whilst operating within our agreed cyber framework.

Skills and experience:

  • Strong communication skills to be able to gather and interpret requirements and communicate results
  • AWS Professional certifications or relevant experience
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    • A thorough grasp of the different AWS services is essential.
      • AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM),
      • AWS CloudFormation
      • Amazon EC2
      • Amazon S3,
      • Amazon RDS,
      • Amazon VPC
      • Amazon CloudWatch, and other services are included in this.
  • It is essential to understand how to set up, implement, and oversee these services.
  • Our primary development platform is PHP so knowledge working in a similar environment is a requirement.
  • Strong knowledge of one or more programming languages (e.g. PHP, Python) and continuous integration / delivery approaches and tools (e.g. Jira, Bitbucket, AWS SysOps)
  • Excellent knowledge of the design and development of applications on AWS
  • Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery
  • Whilst our primary environment is AWS, familiarity with Azure would be helpful.
  • Effective communication skills to be able to gather and interpret requirements and communicate results
  • Ability to engage with business teams and the rest of IT evangelising AWS service propositions and opportunities.
  • Ability to breakdown and solve complex technical problems across multiple technology domains

Benefits:

  • Employee discount: amazing discounts available on all Oak Furnitureland products after successful completion of probation
  • 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
  • Birthday: an additional day off for you to celebrate your birthday
  • Hybrid working
  • Pension: 4% employee contribution matched by the company
  • Life assurance: free cover of a minimum of two times your annual salary up to the age of 65
  • Employee Assistance Programme: gives all employees access to both telephone and face-to-face counselling services
  • My Rewards Programme: offers discounts on everything from restaurants and supermarkets, to entertainment and holidays
  • Free onsite parking