AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

In this role you will own and optimize a large-scale AWS estate, ensuring secure, scalable and cost-efficient cloud services. You’ll work within the Cloud & Infrastructure Operations team to design, operate, and continuously improve infrastructure across compute, storage, databases, and serverless components. You collaborate with DevOps, security, and development teams to deliver resilient cloud platforms. This hands-on role offers hybrid work in Crewe and opportunities to influence architecture and efficiency.

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Bonus potential
• EV scheme
• Wellness and healthcare assistance
• Free onsite gym access

• Operate, maintain and improve AWS infrastructure across compute, storage, database and serverless services
• Build and manage infrastructure with Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Develop automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling and platform management
• Support cloud networking including VPCs, routing, security groups, DNS and load balancing
• Support containerised environments using Kubernetes, EKS and Docker
• Develop monitoring, alerting and observability to boost reliability and performance
• Partner with development, DevOps and cyber security teams to deliver resilient cloud services
• Support cloud security, vulnerability remediation, capacity planning and cost management
• Troubleshoot infrastructure incidents and contribute to ITIL-like change and incident processes

• Degree level education with minimum 2:2
• Hands-on AWS infrastructure experience (EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, ECS, EKS, Lambda)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)
• Scripting/automation in Python or Bash; strong Linux administration
• Experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS)
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles (IAM, least-privilege, encryption, vulnerability management)
• Experience debugging complex infrastructure and incident management processes

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Problem solving and analytical thinking
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Terraform
• AWS CloudFormation
• Python