Cloud Engineer

**AWS Cloud Engineer – £50-80,000 per annum base (dependent on experience) + benefits – Gloucester**

We are recruiting several AWS Cloud Engineers to join a leading global defence, aerospace, and security consultancy firm.

This permanent role requires the successful candidate to undergo and be eligible for UK Security Vetting at SC and DV level. Clearance sponsorship will be provided where required. Due to secure nature of the position and working environment, you must have or be eligible to obtain Security Clearance. Damia is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

More details relating to UK Security Clearance can be found here:

United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK

Main responsibilities:

• Designing and building cloud-native architectures
• Using Terraform or CDK to deploy resources
• Infrastructure creation and management and design
• Liaising with key stakeholders, internal and external
• Create exemplar implementation patterns to projects (i.e. provide a standard Puppet script that will create a single AWS server with some CM)
• Managing and controlling the software configuration for projects including the source repository
• Leveraging many AWS security features and ensuring security best practices with developers
• For Senior Engineers there will be an opportunity for you to lead teams or individuals

Key skills and experience:

• You must be skilled in a range of AWS services, and show a keenness to keep up to date with the latest releases
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code, for example, Terraform, Cloudformation or CDK
• Have used configuration management tools e.g. puppet, chef, ansible etc
• Understanding of networking and how that translates to software defined networking in the cloud
• Experience in container orchestration systems, for example Kubernetes, ECS or Openshift
• Proficiency in scripting in at least 1 language e.g. Python, Bash, Go
• AWS certifications desired although not essential
• A public sector background is desired although not essential

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Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.

Damia Group is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy and in accordance to Conduct Regulations 2003.

The advertised salary range is dependent on experience and the required qualifications.