AWS Cloud Engineer – Fully Remote – Kubernetes

Salary: £48,000 – £54,000 per year

AWS Cloud Engineer – Fully Remote – Kubernetes

Avanti Recruitment is working with a successful Software house based in the Brighton area to recruit an AWS Cloud Engineer with Kubernetes skills to join their team.

You will be working on the underlying infrastructure for their Flagship SaaS based software products as part of a small Infrastructure team so you will have the opportunity to work with a lot of autonomy and influence the processes and tooling they are using. They have been working with AWS and Kubernetes for over 2 years but there is still a lot to be done and plan to move to a DevOps approach with automated CI/CD pipelines in the future. You will work with their Senior Systems Engineer to maintain and administer their platform and look to continually improve their infrastructures and automate processes using scripts. You will also work on their government hosted platform with Linux and VMWare so will be required to undergo SC security clearance vetting.

Some of the challenges you will face:

* Deploying multiple instances of the application internationally.

* Migrating file storage from NFS to S3.

* Speeding up the CI build for their large test suite for the platform.

* Making the capacity of the platform elastic based on current load.

* Building a robust and effective system for continuous deployments.

* Monitoring and alerting for application events.

* Increasing observability of the platform and services.

This can be a fully remote role from anywhere in the UK (or even Europe) with no requirement to go to the office however due to the client base they work with, you will need to eligible for SC level Security Clearance so is only open to UK Citizens or those who have been in the UK for more than 5 years. Although you will be working remotely you will have regular online meetings to ensure you work in close collaboration with the rest of the software and infrastructure team.

To considered you will have at least 2 years Linux Systems Administration experience and skills and experience in most of the following:

Essential

* AWS

* Kubernetes and Docker

* Scripting for automation

* Good knowledge of security concepts in relation to running web applications.

* Linux Server Administration

* VMWare

Desirable

* Infrastructure as code (preferably Terraform)

* Serverless technologies (preferably AWS Lambda)

* Shell scripting

* Relational databases administration including use of replication (preferably MySQL and AWS Aurora)

* Experience writing and / or deploying Ruby on Rails applications

* Python

* Solr

* Helm

* Packer

* Continuous integration and deployment

* Microsoft 365

If you have the essential skills and experience and want to work for a successful and growing company where you can be influential and gain exposure to many of the latest tools and approaches including DevOps then this could be a great role for you.

Location: Work from home permanently – the location doesn’t matter as long as you are eligible for SC Clearance.

Salary: £48,000 – £54,000 + bonus + benefits + share options

N.B. As this role will include working on a government hosted platform this position is only open to UK residents and you will be required to undergo SC security clearance vetting.